Tauqir Raza Khan is an Indian politician from Uttar Pradesh and a religious leader of the Bareilvi sect of Sunni Muslims. He is the President of the Council of the political party Ittehad-e-Millat, which he founded in 2001. He is the grandson of Ahmed Raza Khan, who pioneered the Barelvi movement in South Asia in the 1870s and 1880s. Soon after the Muzaffar Nagar riots in 2013, Tauqeer Raza Khan resigned from the Ministry of Handicrafts of Uttar Pradesh. In 2016, he was criticized by religious leaders of his own sect for visiting Deoband, a city in Uttar Pradesh that is home to another religious sect of Muslims called Deoband. He went to Deoband to unite the Muslims of Bareilvi and Deobandi sects. The Muslim Personal Law Council of India (Jaded) was founded by Tauqeer Raza Khan after he severed his association with the All India Muslim Personal Law Council.
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Wiki/Biography
Tauqir Raza Khan was born in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Physical appearance
Hair color: salt and pepper
Eye Color: Black
family
parents and siblings
His great-grandfather’s name is Ahmed Raza Khan, who was the founder of the Bareilly movement in South Asia, which began to take shape in Bareilly in the 1870s and 1880s.
Tauqir Raza Khan’s great grandfather, Ahmed Raza Khan
His elder brother’s name is Subhan Raza Khan who is the chairman of Dargah-e-Aala Hazrat in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.
Tauqir Raza Khan’s elder brother, Subhan Raza Khan
wife and children
He is married. Tauqeer Raza Khan has a daughter named I Khan and a son named Naqi Ali Khan from his first marriage. He has two daughters from his second marriage named Mustajab Begum and Bibi Jani.
Religion and Sect
He follows Islam and belongs to the Sunni sect of Islam.
Career
politics
Ittehad-e-Millat Council, a political party in Uttar Pradesh, was founded by Tauqeer Raza Khan on 7 October 2001. In its first municipal elections, the party won ten seats and 36,000 votes. Tauqeer Raza Khan’s party entered into an alliance with the Indian National Congress in 2009, through which Praveen Singh Aron, the Congress candidate, won the general election, defeating his opponent Santosh Gangwar of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He supported the Samajwadi Party in the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Shahzil Islam, an MP from Tauqeer Raza Khan’s party, won the election from Bhojipura constituency. He won with a large margin of votes from the Muslim community. Taukir Raza Khan has been appointed as the Vice Chairman of Uttar Pradesh Handloom Corporation. During his alliance with the Samajwadi Party, Taukir Raza Khan asked the then Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav to form a special committee to investigate the Muzaffar Nagar riots. In September 2014, Khan quit the Samajwadi Party and announced that his party would no longer support the Samajwadi Party. In 2014, Taukir Raza Khan entered into an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party.
All India Muslim Personal Law Council (Jadeed) (“Modern”)
In February 2015, Taukir Raza Khan formed an NGO called the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (Jaded) (“Modern”) for Barelvi Muslims in India. He accused Deoband board members of discrimination and formed his own separate legal council for Barelvi Muslims. In an interview with a media house, Khan said that Barelvi Muslims were suffocating under the AIMPLB. She said,
AIMPLB has lost all credibility as its two main constituents have drifted apart. We are now a new council. We used to feel suffocated.”
confrontations
- Tauqir Raza Khan courted controversy in 2007 after issuing a fatwa against Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen. In a fatwa, Taslima Nasreen was barred from entering India and a cash reward of five lakhs was announced for anyone who beheads Taslima Nasreen. Tauqir Raza Khan said in a press conference that Taslima Nasreen had written against Islamic practices and she should leave India and burn her books. he stated
The fatwa against Taslima Nasreen, whose writings the clerics considered anti-Islamic, could be lifted if she burned her books and left India.”
- In January 2022, Tauqeer Raza Khan claimed the status of “martyrs” for the terrorists who were killed on September 19, 2008 in the Batla House encounter. In an interview given at the media house, he said that in 2009, the Congress party had promised him to investigate the matter. She said,
The Congress told me that they would investigate the Batla House meeting if their government is formed in 2009. If there had been an investigation, the world would have known that the dead should have been given martyr status as terrorists.
- While addressing a program at the Social Integration Conference in Bareilly in 2017, Tauqeer Raza Khan mentioned a Hindu woman who had married five times and noted that the names of the fathers were not known to her children. Khan courted controversy when he criticized the law banning triple talaq as an Islamic practice, and he also opposed the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code in India. He concluded his statement by saying that there should be no interference of Hindus with Islam and vice versa.
- Speaking to reporters in Moradabad in March 2023, he demanded action against those who demanded a “Hindu Rashtra”. He also said what will happen if Muslim youths start demanding a separate Muslim state. Moulana said
Those who talk about the Hindu nation should be punished under the Sedition Act. If not, Hindu nation supporters will spread hatred and problems and Muslim community will start talking about Muslim nation. We will not allow this to happen.”
Facts/Trivia
- The Uttar Pradesh police arrested Taukir Raza Khan for his involvement in the 2010 Bareilly Hindu-Muslim clashes. The situation became more complicated when the Muslim Students’ Organization and the Barkat Educational Trust demanded his release, saying that the situation in the city would not return to normal until he was released from police custody. They said,
He was arrested on the basis of a false complaint and they said that if he is not released, the city may not return to normal.”
- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal met Taukeer Raza Khan in 2013. During the meeting, Taukir Raza Khan praised Arvind Kejriwal for his India Against Corruption movement and Kejriwal also considered Khan a respected person.
Aukir Raza Khan with Arvind Kejriwal
- In 2014, Tauqir Raza Khan criticized the Samajwadi Party for failing to protect Muslims in the state and soon quit the party after demanding a special inquiry into communal clashes. He blamed the then Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for creating an anarchy-like situation in UP. In a press conference, Taukir Raza Khan said that Akhilesh Yadav has no control over the police and civil administration. She said,
The people of Uttar Pradesh had high hopes from young Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav – that he would usher in a new era in the state, but he has left people disappointed as he has no control over the police officers and the civil administration. This created an anarchy-like situation in the state. If the Chief Minister had the ability and experience to manage the administration, the situation in Muzaffarnagar would not have been so critical.”
- In May 2016, the Special Cell of the Delhi Police arrested a boy in Deoband, Uttar Pradesh, on charges of terrorism. Shortly after the boy’s arrest, Tauqir Raza Khan went to meet the boy’s family at his home, where Khan’s rival Deoband sect originated. After that, in a public meeting at Darul Ulum Deoband, an educational institution, Tauqeer Raza Khan said that uniting Deoband and Barelvi was the only way to fight against the common enemy that was affecting Islamic practices in the country.
- Soon Taukir Raza Khan’s meeting with Deobandi religious leaders was covered by prominent Indian media houses. The Times of India called it a sectarian struggle between Barelvi and Deobandi religious leaders. Taukir Raza Khan was issued a statement by his brother Subhan Raza Khan after Tauker’s visit to Deoband. Tauqir Raza Khan was ordered to apologize publicly and was threatened with a mufti’s fatwa. The matter discussed during the meeting between Khan and Deobandis was investigated by a panel of 12 muftis. Accordingly, Taukir Raza Khan was found guilty under Haram (religious sin) and then he performed tauba (repentance before God).
- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated an international Sufi conference in March 2016, which was criticized by Tauqeer Raza Khan. Speaking on this topic, he said:
History proves that Sufi never went to the door of the rich, this is the first time that in the name of Sufism they are enjoying the privileges of Prime Minister and RSS.
- Tauqir Raza Khan was spotted inciting 20 million Muslim youth at his rally in Bareilly on January 8, 2022 for the ‘Dharam Sansad’ controversy against Hindus. He said that if the Muslim youth took the law into their hands, then Hindus would have no place to hide in India. She said,
I want to warn my Hindu brothers that I am afraid that the day my Muslim youth are forced to take the law into their hands, you will find nowhere to hide in India.”
“20 million Muslims are listening… I am afraid, my Hindu brothers, if my youth takes the law into their hands, you will find no place to hide in India,” Maulana Tauker Raza Khan on the “Dharam Sansad” controversy.
Amir Heck and @Rshivshankar by analysis. pic.twitter.com/IYZpkopPvu
— Times Now (@TimesNow) January 7, 2022
- Nida Khan, daughter-in-law of Taukeer Raza Khan’s cousin, joined the Bhartiya Janata Party on 30 January 2022. On 18 February 2015, his nephew Shiran Raza Khan married Nida Khan. After five months of marriage, Nida Khan experienced an instant divorce from her husband and was forced by her husband to practice Nikah Halala. She opposed the practice of Nikah Halala and went to her parents’ house. Nida Khan is the founder of Ala Hazrat Helping Society, an NGO working for victims of triple talaq and Nikah Halala. She is considered among the advocates of women’s rights in India. After joining the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2022, she said in a media conference that the safety of Muslim women was ensured during the reign of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Congress leader Maulana Tauqir Raza Khan’s daughter-in-law Nida Khan (2nd left) joined the BJP on January 30 along with other SP and Congress leaders.
- Tauqir Raza Khan has extended his party’s support to the Indian National Congress ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in January 2022.
Aukir Raza Khan with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
- Tauqeer Raza Khan often posts his videos and pictures on his social media accounts. His Facebook page is followed by more than 6 thousand people.
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