Kerala governor and former Puducherry chief minister and MP, M O H Farook died in Chennai on 26 January 2012. veteran Congress leader, Farook was born in Karaikal on 6 September 1937.
He had participated in the struggle for liberation of Pondicherry as a student, during 1953-54 when Pondicherry was a French colony and served as a member of the Central Haj Committee in Mumbai from 1975 to 2000.
Farook was a three-time chief minister of Puducherry. He served from 9 April 9 1967 to 6 March 1968; from 17 March 1969, to 3 January 1974 and from 1985 to 1990. He also served as the speaker of the Puducherry legislative assembly.
He was thrice elected to the Lok Sabha from Puducherry in 1991, 1996 and 1999 and served as a Union minister of state for civil aviation and tourism between June 1991 and December 1992 in the P.V. Narasimha Rao Government.
He was appointed as the Indian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia in September 2004. He was appointed Jharkhand Governor in 2010. He was sworn in as the 19th Governor of Kerala in September 2011.
Farook, a seasoned politician and a senior Congressman was an able administrator, who had the vision to develop Puducherry to its full potential. He was the architect of modern Puducherry.
Farook had the distinction of being the youngest Speaker of the Puducherry Assembly in the late 1960s.
.jpg){kind=logo}
-1762257457862.jpg)
-1761909565760.jpg)
Comments
All Comments (0)
Join the conversation