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About J. Mohammed Imam
- J.
- Mohammed Imam (15 February 1897, Jagalur – 3 January 1983) was an Indian politician.J.
- Mohammed Imam was the son of J.
- Bade Saheb.
- He studied at the Central College of Bangalore and the Government Law College in Madras.
- He obtained Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law degrees.
- In 1928 he was elected to the senate of the Mysore University.
- In 1930 he became a member of the legislature (later Legislative Assembly) of the Mysore state.
- He would continue to be a Mysore legislator until 1957.
- Politically, he was a member of the All India Muslim League.
- Between 1933 and 1936 he served as the first non-official president of the Jagalur Municipal Council.
- He was the president of the Chitaldrug District Board between 1936 and 1940.
- He also held various posts in different companies.He served as Minister for Education, Railways and Public Works Departments in the government of the Mysore State between June 1941 – 1945.
- In 1945 the Maharaja of Mysore named him 'Mushir ul-Mulk' ('Advisor of the Kingdom').
- In 1947 he left the Muslim League.
- After the independence of India, he became a member of the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party (which later, to J.
- Mohammed Imam's disappointment, merged into the Praja Socialist Party).
- He served as Leader of the Opposition in the Mysore Legislative Assembly from 1948 onwards.
- Key political themes of J.
- Mohammed Imam were secularism and anti-communism.J.
- Mohammed Imam was elected to the Lok Sabha (lower house of the parliament of India) in the 1957 general election.
- He stood as the PSP candidate in Chitaldrug constituency, obtaining 129,848 votes (52.25% of the votes in the constituency).
- In the Second Lok Sabha he was a member of the Panel of Chairmen.
- In 1959 he joined the Swatantra Party.In the 1962 Indian general election, he contested the Bellary Lok Sabha seat as a Swatantra Party candidate.
- He finished in second place with 137,448 votes (48.02%).
- He regained the Chitaldrug (now renamed Chitradruga) seat in the 1967 Indian general election, obtaining 164,548 votes (50.45%).He lost the Chitradruga seat in the 1971 Indian general election.
- He finished in second place with 81,303 votes (24.16%).
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