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 Ambassador Mr.
M.O.H. Farook
is the Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since September 2004.
His biography is given below.
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Full Name: |
Momunapillai Othuman Hasankuthoos Farook |
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Date of birth: |
6th September 1937 |
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Place of birth: |
Karaikal (Pondichery), India |
Educational
Qualifications: |
B.A. (Economics)
Educated at Loyola College, Chennai |
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Profession: |
Political and Social Worker |
Positions
held:
1964-91 Member, Pondichery Legislative Assembly
1964-67 & Speaker, Pondichery Legislative Assembly
1980-85
1967-68,
1969-74 & Chief Minister of Pondichery
1985-90
March-Dec. Leader of Opposition, Pondichery Legislative
1990 Assembly
1991 Elected to the Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha)
June 91 to Union Minister of State for Civil
Dec. 92 Aviation & Tourism
1996 Re-elected to the Parliament (Lok Sabha)
1999 Re-elected to the Parliament (Lok Sabha)
Memberships of
: Member, Central Haj Committee, Mumbai
Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee of Parliament of
India
Committees Member of Parliamentary Standing Committee
on Home Affairs;
Member of Committtee on Wakf Laws
Member, Joint Committee to Enquire
into
Irregularities in Securities and
Banking Transactions;
Member, Consultative Committee on
Ministry
of Science & Technology;
Member; Committee on Members of
Parliament
Local Area Development Scheme;
Special
interests: Books, women welfare and upliftment
of the downtrodden.
Favourite pastime
and
Recreation: Reading, sports, social work and
horticulture.
Sports and
clubs: Tennis; Member, Circle-de-Pondichery.
Countries
Visited: Australia, France, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia,
Syria, UK, USA, and erstwhile USSR;
Attended World Tamil Conference at
Paris
in 1970; Disarmament Conference at
Vienna;
attended a Seminar at Fletcher
School of Law
and Diplomacy, Harvard University,
USA;
Deputy Leader and Leader, Haj
Goodwill
Delegation in 1987 and 1989
respectively;
Visited Syria in 1991 for signing a
protocol on tourism.
Other
information: Participated in struggle for liberation
of
Pondichery as a student during
1953-54 when
Pondichery was a French
colony; Member,
Central Haj Committee, Mumbai,
1975-2000.
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