MOULANA
MANZOOR AHSAN AJAZI
Date
of Birth: 1898 and Date of Death: 17th May, 1969
Moulana
Manzoor Ahsan Ajazi, who spent 13 years in jail during the struggle for the
emancipation of India from the yoke of British, was born in Dihuli near
Muzaffarpur within the jurisdiction of Shakara police station in Bihar, in 1898.
His parents were Mahfoozunnisa and Moulvi Hafizuddin Husain. Even at the age of 15, he participated in
anti-British movement in 1913 and later he organised several agitations as
student union leader. He went to
Champaran on the message of Mahatma Gandhi along with another firebrand of
Indian National Movement Moulvi Hasrat Mohani in 1917 to defy Rowlat Act and to
participate in the Satyagraha organised by Swadeshi Indigo Farmers. Moulana Manzoor Ahsan Ajazi quit his job in
1919 to devote himself in the promotion of National Movement as a full time
activist when Khilafat and Non Cooperation Movement was in the full swing. He got ample recognition for his active
participation in the programme of collecting for the soldiers of Balkan War. He was imprisoned for the first time in 1921and
again in 1930 for taking part in anti British activities for a year and half
each time. His movements were restricted
for his active participation in Dandi Satyagraha. In 1941, he undertook individual Satyagraha
and was sent to jail once again. He was
elected chairman of Mujafarpur local Board in 1942. Moulana Manzoor Ahsan Ajazi won public
admiration for several of his welfare activities. He took active part in Quit India Movement in
1942. He toured extensively in Bihar
extending support to anti-British activists and for spreading message of
Gandhiji and his forms of struggle and social reforms. He was arrested again and sent to jail for a
period of four years. Thus Moulana Ajazi
spent a total 13 years in the jails of Alipur, Alighar, Buxor, Muzaffarpur and
other Jails. In the post independence
India, he was elected as a member of legislative assembly from Fathepur in
Bihar in 1957. He carried out his
responsibilities as an MLA till 1962.
Later on he gave top priority to Hindu-Muslims unity and social
reforms. Moulana Manzoor Ahsan Ajazi was
in public life till he breathed his last on 17th May, 1969.
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