X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Ghulam Nabi Azad


Gangu Teli

Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, and a member of the right-wing Hindu nationalist BJP party, belongs to the Teli caste; a remark by Congress Party's Ghulam Nabi Azad, rephrasing Modi's Prime Ministerial ambitions in the light of the ancient quip "Kahan Raja Bhoj, kahan Gangu Teli" has drawn denunciations of casteism by the BJP.

Ghulam Nabi Azad

He married Shameem Dev Azad, a well known Kashmiri singer, in 1980, and they have a son Saddam Nabi Azad and a daughter Sofiya Nabi Azad.

Shameem Dev Azad

Shameema Dev Azad is a prominent female singer from Jammu and Kashmir and the wife of Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Chief Minister for Jammu and Kashmir.

Umrao Hospitals

The Umrao Hospitals was inaugurated on 1 November 2010 by Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.



see also