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Who's Khwaja Haleem

Haleem was born in 1944, and died at the age of 75. Haleem, who belongs to a family of freedom fighters, completed his masters from Aligarh Muslim University in 1969. He started his political career with the Youth Congress in the early 1970s. He later joined the Lok Dal and was elected to the Vidhan Sabha from Aligarh Assembly constituency in 1980. He remained a ever since and was elected twice for the Vidhan Parishad. In 1990, Haleem was appointed the chairman of Uttar Pradesh Minority Commission and was the member of the Samajwadi Party Central Committee for nearly two decades. In 2014, he was appointed advisor in tourism department by then chief minister Akhilesh Singh Yadav. PTI