Mohammed Taslimuddin

Mohammed Taslimuddin
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Mohammed Taslimuddin or simply Taslimuddin (born 4 January 1943) is an Indian criminal-politician and a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents the Kishanganj constituency of Bihar and is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) political party.

A powerful ganglord with several murder and rape charges pending against him, he is presently the Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Minister of State in the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.

From 1969 to 1996, he was elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly six times. In between, in 1989, he became a member of the 9th Lok Sabha. He has been a member of the 11th (1996), 12th(1998), and 14th Lok Sabhas (2004-present) [1].

In June 1996, he became a member of the Deve Gowda cabinet on the recommendation of Laloo Yadav. However, public anger in Bihar had forced an embarrassed Deve Gowda to prevail upon him to resign in the very next month[2].

Despite the Manmohan Singh government aspiring to a higher ethical standard, he was appointed Minister of State for the potentially lucrative Public Distribution ministry in May 2004. Unlike in 1996, there does not appear to have been much protest.

Taslimuddun is the third MP from Bihar who has had a long criminal history.
The others Shahabuddin and Pappu Yadav have already been covered by me.
All three have two things in common.
They are from Bihar and all three have Lalu Yadav as their godfather.
They were made ministers on the recommendation of Lalu Yadav.
What is surprising is that Taslimuddin was dropped from the cabinet by Deve Gowda but Manmohan Singh found nothing wrong with him.
Had he reformed or were Manmohan Singh's idea of what he considered corruption much lower than Deve Gowda's.
And we considered Manmohan Singh an upright man.