M. Farooqui

Muqimuddin Farooqui (25 March 1920 – 3 September 1997) was an Indian politician. He was a key leader of the students movement during the Indian independence struggle. As a leader of the Communist Party of India he headed the Delhi unit of the party 1944-1971, and from 1971 onwards he was a national-level leader of the party.

Student movement

Muqimuddin Farooqui was born on 15 March 1920 in Ambehta, Saharanpur district into a modest Muslim family.

He moved to Delhi in 1930 to attend school there. He would be later be issued a Tamra Patra award for his role in the independence movement. He served in this position until 1971, when he switched to work at the national CPI Party Centre. He joined the CPI National Executive in 1974, and the CPI National Secretariat in 1982. The couple had one son. He died shortly thereafter at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.