Aziz Qureshi
Governor of Mizoram
In office
7 January – 28 March 2015
Preceded byKrishan Kant Paul
Succeeded byKeshari Nath Tripathi
Governor of Uttarakhand
In office
17 May 2012 – 6 January 2015
Preceded byMargaret Alva
Succeeded byKrishan Kant Paul
Governor of Uttar Pradesh
(additional charge)
In office
17 June – 22 July 2014
Preceded byBanwari Lal Joshi
Succeeded byRam Naik
Personal details
Born (1941-04-24) 24 April 1941
Bhopal, Bhopal State, British India
Political partyIndian National Congress
Residence(s)Raj Bhavan, Aizawl, Mizoram (former)
Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (current)
Raj Bhavan, Dehradun (former)
Alma mater
ProfessionLawyer

Aziz Qureshi (born 24 April 1941) is an Indian politician and a senior Indian National Congress leader of mixed Arab-Pathan Muslim ethnoreligious and Urdu-speaking linguistic background from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

He had previously served as 15th governor of Mizoram from January to March 2015.[1] In addition, he also previously served as the governor of Uttarakhand from 2012 to 2015 and was also appointed Governor of Uttar Pradesh (additional charge) for a month in 2014, before Ram Naik took over his position.

Later, he was appointed chairman of the Madhya Pradesh Urdu Academy on 24 January 2020 by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, after leaving the state governorships post.

In 1973, he served as a cabinet minister in Madhya Pradesh and later in 1984, he was elected to Lok Sabha from Satna (Madhya Pradesh) constituency for a term until 1989.

References

  1. ↑ "After Uttarakhand governor Aziz Qureshi moves Supreme Court, Centre says it never asked him to quit". The Times of India. 22 August 2014. Retrieved 26 January 2016.


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