1. Professor Saifuddin Soz was born on 23 November 1937 and is an Indian professor and seven term member of the Parliament of India.
16 Facts About Saifuddin Soz
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Saifuddin Soz had been India's Minister of Water Resources in India's 14th Lok Sabha and Minister of Environment and Forests in the 1990s.
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Saifuddin Soz was born in Sopore, a township in the northern Kashmir Valley.
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Saifuddin Soz worked his way to completing a master's degree in economics from the University of Kashmir, where he later held the position of registrar.
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Saifuddin Soz sought voluntary retirement from government service to enter politics in 1983.
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In 1983, Lok Sabha election, Saifuddin Soz contested and won the Baramulla seat as a candidate of the ruling Jammu and Kashmir National Conference party.
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Saifuddin Soz went on to win three more Lok Sabha elections as a member of the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference.
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Saifuddin Soz represented the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference and the state of Jammu and Kashmir in the Rajya Sabha in the mid-'90s.
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In 1999, Saifuddin Soz was expelled from the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference party for voting against the government of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
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Saifuddin Soz was a Jammu and Kashmir National Conference member of parliament and defied his party's leadership.
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In 2003, Saifuddin Soz joined the Indian National Congress and was elected to the Rajya Sabha.
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Saifuddin Soz was appointed President of the Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee in February 2008.
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Saifuddin Soz was one of the front runners for the post of Vice-President of India in the 2007 Vice-Presidential election.
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Saifuddin Soz translated M Illin's book 1,00,000 Whys from Russian to Kashmiri, an effort for which he received the Soviet Land Nehru Award.
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Saifuddin Soz has written essays and short stories in Kashmiri, several articles in reputed newspapers and journals on a variety of subjects like Islam and modernism, rights of women, secularism, literature, education and economics.
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Saifuddin Soz is the recipient of several literary awards including Soviet Land Nehru Award, All India Basic Literature Competition Award and Competition for Literature for Neo-Literates Award.