Marghoob Ahmad Lari

Marghoob Ahmad Lari was born on 28 December 1947 at Lar Deoria and completed his post graduation, M.A. degree, from Lucknow where he resided due to his family business.^[3] His political career was rooted around his birth place in Deoria district. He worked in the beginning with Chandra Shekhar's Janata Dal (Socialist) party becoming a member of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council MLC on the ticket from the aforementioned party during 1990 to 1996. In addition, in 1991 he was the Minister of State, Tourism department in Uttar Pradesh government.^[1] Later in his career, he worked with other socialist Parties i.e Bahujan Samajwadi Party and Samajwadi Party of Mulyam Singh Yadav in U.P.^[4] He is credited to establish a Girls degree college in the town of his birth Lar.^[5]

He died in Lucknow on 31 January 2020 and was buried in his ancestral town Lar, Deoria.^[3]