Veteran Cong leader M M Hashim dies in US
TNN | 24 Dec 2013
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Veteran-Cong-leader-M-M-Hashim-dies-in-US/articleshow/27810634.cms
HYDERABAD: Former home minister and a popular Congress leader from the city M M Hashim passed away on Sunday morning in Washington where he was staying for several years.
Hashim, 92, was suffering from multiple ailments, for the last three years. He is survived by his wife, two sons and four daughters.
A close friend of former chief minister M Channa Reddy, Hashim was a leading figure in the 1969 Telangana agitation.he was a member of the Legislative Assembly in 1962 and 1967. He won the Secunderabad Lok Sabha seat in 1969 on the ticket of Telangana Praja Samithi. He won the seat again in the following election.
In 1979 when Channa Reddy became chief minister, he chose Hashim as his home minister. In 1989 when Channa Reddy became CM for the second time, he invited Hashim from the US where the latter was staying with his children, and made him member of Rajya Sabha.
Earlier in 1960, Hashim, a resident of Mallepally in Hyderabad tasted defeat at the hands of the late MIM president Salahuddin Owaisi when he fought for the Municipal Corporation Elections. However the two rival, representing two defferent schools of political thoughts were also good friends. Hashim was known for his wit in Hyderabadi lingo.
He was laid to rest in Washington late on Sunday.
TNN | 24 Dec 2013
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/Veteran-Cong-leader-M-M-Hashim-dies-in-US/articleshow/27810634.cms
HYDERABAD: Former home minister and a popular Congress leader from the city M M Hashim passed away on Sunday morning in Washington where he was staying for several years.
Hashim, 92, was suffering from multiple ailments, for the last three years. He is survived by his wife, two sons and four daughters.
A close friend of former chief minister M Channa Reddy, Hashim was a leading figure in the 1969 Telangana agitation.he was a member of the Legislative Assembly in 1962 and 1967. He won the Secunderabad Lok Sabha seat in 1969 on the ticket of Telangana Praja Samithi. He won the seat again in the following election.
In 1979 when Channa Reddy became chief minister, he chose Hashim as his home minister. In 1989 when Channa Reddy became CM for the second time, he invited Hashim from the US where the latter was staying with his children, and made him member of Rajya Sabha.
Earlier in 1960, Hashim, a resident of Mallepally in Hyderabad tasted defeat at the hands of the late MIM president Salahuddin Owaisi when he fought for the Municipal Corporation Elections. However the two rival, representing two defferent schools of political thoughts were also good friends. Hashim was known for his wit in Hyderabadi lingo.
He was laid to rest in Washington late on Sunday.
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