Najma Heptullah
| Najma Heptulla | |
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| Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia | |
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Assumed office 26 May 2017 |
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| Governor of Manipur | |
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Assumed office 21 August 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | V. Shanmuganathan |
| Minister of Minority Affairs | |
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In office 26 May 2014 – 12 July 2016 |
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| Prime Minister | Narendra Modi |
| Preceded by | K. Rahman Khan |
| Succeeded by | Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi |
| Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha | |
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In office 1985–1986, 1988–2004 |
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| MP of Rajya Sabha for Madhya Pradesh | |
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In office 2004–2010, re-elected on 3 April 2012 |
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| Personal details | |
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13 April 1940 Bhopal, Bhopal State (present-day Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India) |
| Political party |
Bharatiya Janata Party (since 2004) |
| Other political affiliations |
Indian National Congress (1960s–2004) |
| Spouse(s) | Akbarali A. Heptulla (1966–2007) (his death) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Vikram University |
Najma Akbarali Heptulla (born 13 April 1940) is an Indian politician and the current governor of Manipur and the Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia university. She is a former vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and a five time member of the Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Indian parliament, between 1986 and 2012, and Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha for sixteen years. She was a member representing Rajasthan from July 2004 to July 2010. She was nominated by the BJP for the Rajya Sabha in 2012 from Madhya Pradesh, and assumed her office on 24 April 2012.
She is a second cousin to actor Aamir Khan and grand niece of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. She contested the 13th vice-presidential election held in August 2007 but lost to Hamid Ansari by 233 votes. She took oath as a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi headed government on 26 May 2014 and was replaced by Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in July 2016.
Najma was born as Sayyida Najma bint Yusuf on 13 April 1940 in Bhopal, Bhopal State, in present Madhya Pradesh to Sayyid Yusuf bin Ali AlHashmi and Sayyida Fatima bint Mahmood . The Family are of Arab descent and they claim to be Sayyid. She is a Dawoodi Bohra Muslim. She did her schooling at Motilal Vigyan Mahavidyalaya (MVM) Bhopal, and obtained an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. degree, both in Zoology (Cardiac Anatomy) from Vikram University, Ujjain.
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