Mohammad Yunus Saleem

Mohammad Yunus Saleem
Mohammad Yunus Saleem in 1990, as Governor of Bihar
Member of Parliament
In office 1967-1971
Preceded by	Ram Narayan Reddi
Succeeded by	K. Ramkrishna Reddy
Constituency	Nalgonda
Personal details
Born	1912
Died	2004
Political party	Indian National Congress
As of 26 September, 2006

Mohammad Yunus Saleem (1912 – 15 January 2004) was an Indian politician, scholar and lawyer. He was born in Manoha, near Lucknow. He was known for his simplicity and integrity. He was also active in both religious and political fields, and never compromised in his ethics.The Mohammad Yunus Saleem Memorial Education Trust had been established in his honor by his son Junaid Abdul Rehman to promote the study of the holy Quran. He was also a poet who struggled to make Urdu the second official language. He was also a devouted Muslim, who regularly observed Namaz and never missed Roza.

Born in 1912 in Lucknow, Saleem studied at the Christian Mission College in Lucknow then did his BA and LLB at Osmania University in Hyderabad. As a politician, he was an active senior Indian National Congress member who represented Lok Sabha and served as cabinet member in different ministries. When the Congress Party split in the late 1970s he was a member of the Parliamentary Board of Congress (Urs) and as the party localized to Maharashtra under Sharad Pawar, he joined Choudhary Charan Singh's Lok Dal. He was the Vice President of Lok Dal and also a member of its parliamentary board. During the Congress Party's expulsion of V. P. Singh in 1987 and the formation of Jan Morcha, he joined the newly formed party. He played an active role in bringing all parties together and in the formation of Janata Dal. As a lawyer during his early career, he worked as an assistant to Advocate Mohammed Wasi at Hyderabad High Court. He lived in a house in Urdu Galli, now behind the Ram Krishna theatre, Hyderabad.