Name : Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Date of birth : 1888
Date of Death : 1958
Place of birth : Mecca
Place of death : New Delhi
Father : Maulana Khairuddin
Mother :
Maulana Azad was Born in 1888 in Mecca, Islam's main center of pilgrimage, to a family of Afghan origin. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad ranks among the top builders of modern India and among the top freedom fighters, who dedicated his entire life to liberate India from the British colonial rule.
Maulana Azad supported Gandhiji's non-cooperation movement and joined the Indian National Congress in January 1920. He presided over the special session of Congress in September 1923 and is said to be at the age of 35, the youngest man elected as the President of the Congress.
Azad was arrested in 1930 for violation of the salt laws as part of Gandhhiji's Salt Satyagraha. He was put in Meerut jail for a year and a half.
Maulana Azad served as the Minister of Education in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet from 1947 to 1958. He died in New Delhi in 1958. Azad was honored with the Bharat Ratna posthumously in 1992.
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