Najma Heptulla
Najma Heptulla | |
---|---|
Shyamlal Yadav | |
Succeeded by | M. M. Jacob |
In office 11 November 1988 – 10 June 2004 | |
Preceded by | Pratibha Patil |
Succeeded by | K. Rahman Khan |
Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
In office 3 April 2012 – 20 August 2016 | |
Constituency | Madhya Pradesh |
In office 2004–2010 | |
Constituency | Rajasthan |
In office 1980–2004 | |
Constituency | Maharashtra |
Personal details | |
Born | British India | 13 April 1940
Political party | Bharatiya Janata Party (since 2004) |
Other political affiliations | Indian National Congress (1960s–2004) |
Spouse |
Akbar Ali Akhtar Heptulla
(m. 1966; died 2007) |
Children | 3 |
Residence | Raj Bhavan, Imphal |
Alma mater | Vikram University |
Najma Akbar Ali Heptulla (born 13 April 1940) is an Indian politician. She was the Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia from 2017 to 2023, until Mufaddal Saifuddin was elected as new Chancellor on 14 March 2023. She was a six time member of the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, between 1980 and 2016, and Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha for sixteen years when she was a member of Congress. Later she was nominated vice-president of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2012, and was a minister from 2014-2016 as a member of BJP in Narendra Modi's first government. From 2016 to 2021, she served as the 16th Governor of Manipur.
She is a second cousin to actor
Early life and background
Najma was born as Sayyida Najma bint Yusuf on 13 April 1940 in
She married Akbar Ali Akhtar Heptulla in 1966, and has three daughters.[7] Her husband, Akbar Ali Akhtar Heptulla, a manpower consultant, was instrumental in the establishment of the Patriot newspaper in the 1960s. He died on 4 September 2007, in New Delhi at the age of 75.[9]
Career
She steadily climbed up in the
Heptulla joined
She was a member of Rajya Sabha, representing
She resigned from her positions as a minister and a member of Rajya Sabha in 2016 when she was nominated Governor of Manipur.
Heptulla was nominated to head the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, ICCR. She also presided over the women parliamentarians' group of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1993 and became founder president of the parliamentarians' forum for human development the same year. She was also elected President of Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a Geneva-based international organisation at Council's 165th session in Berlin in 1999. She held the post from 16 October 1999 to 27 September 2002. Subsequently, in 2002, at Council's 171st session, she was chosen the Honorary President of the IPU Council. Heptulla was nominated by the United Nations Development Programme as its human development ambassador. Heptulla led a delegation to the UN Commission on Status of Women in 1997.[22]
Heptulla has authored book on AIDS titled "AIDS: Approaches to Prevention". She has also written on human social security, sustainable development, environment, reforms for women and on ties between India and west Asia.
Heptulla faced charges of having morphed a 1958 photograph to show her along with
Awards and decorations
State honours
- Russia:
- Recipient of the Order of Friendship (2019)
Awards
- Recipient of the Outstanding Parliamentarian Award for the year 2013
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