M. M. Hashim

He was born to Mirza Abdul Jawad in Mallepally Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh on 19 October 1921.^[1] He was last elected to Rajya Sabha in 1990 and served as its member until 1996.^[2] He also participated in the 1969 Telangana Agitation.^[4]

Before joining the Indian National Congress, he was affiliated with Telangana Praja Samithi from 1969 to 1971. He later moved to Congress and served a vice-president of the City Congress Committee from 1962 to 1969, and as president of the Pant Education Society, and Tenant Association from 1960 to 1977. He was later appointed as a vice-president of the Hut Association and Rickshaw Union, and later convenor of Anti-Communal Associations and Association for Eradication of Poverty.^[1] He also served as a general secretary of the Nationalist Kashmir Front in 1958.

Prior to electing to Lok Sabha in 1971 Indian general election, he was a member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly (1962–67) and was re-elected to assembly in 1967 until his second term ended in 1971.^[1] During his assembly career, he was appointed as a state Home Minister in 1978 by Marri Chenna Reddy.^[3] He was living in Washington D.C., however when Marri Chenna Reddy was re-elected as a chief minister, he invited Hashim to India and appointed him as a member of the Rajya Sabha.^[4]

He was married to Khursheed, with whom he had six children, including four daughters and two sons.^[1] He later went to Washington D. C. where he died on 22 December 2013 from multimorbidity.^[4]