Mohammed Taslimuddin

Who is Mohammed Taslimuddin?

Mohammed Taslimuddin or simply Taslimuddin is an Indian criminal-politician and was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He used to represent the Kishanganj constituency of Bihar and is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party. Later, after Nitish Kumar of the Janata Dal defeated Lalu Prasad Yadav of the RJD, Taslimuddin -- like many other criminal-politicians of Bihar -- simply switched his party from RJD to JDU. He became a powerful minister in JDU under Nitish Kumar. But after 8 years, he again rejoined RJD.

A powerful ganglord with several murder and rape charges pending against him, he was 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, 12th, and 14th Lok Sabhas.

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.