The damaged car in which former Indian cricket team captain Mohammed Azharuddin was travelling while it met with an accident in Rajasthan’s Soorwal. Azhar escaped unhurt.
Chief Minister K.Chandra Sekhar Rao greets Sania Mirza's sister Anam Mirza who got married to Mohammad Azharuddin's son Aladdin at wedding reception in Hyderabad.
Former Indian cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin acknowledges the crowd during a grand parade of India's former cricket captains during the first day of the second test match between In...
BCCI President Sourav Ganguly being congratulated by Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) President Mohammad Azharuddin during his felicitation ceremony at Eden Garden in Kolkata.
BCCI President Sourav Ganguly and Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) President Mohammad Azharuddin pose for a photograph at BCCI headquarters, in Mumbai.
Former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin (R) with Telugu actor Venkatesh Daggubati unveils the jersey of Hyderabad Football Club, in Hydrabad
Former Indian captain, Mohd. Azharuddin files nomination for the office of President of Hyderabad Cricket Association at HCA office, in Hyderabad.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi shakes hands with Mohammad Azharuddin, working president of the Congress party in Telangana, at a public meeting at Chevella constituency near Hyder...
Former West Indies Cricketer Brian Lara speaks, while CAB President Sourav Ganguly, Cricketer Rohit Sharma, Former Indian Cricketer Md Azharuddin and former West Indies Cricketer C...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, center, and children, Xavier, 10, Ella-Grace, 9, and Hadrien, 3, visit the Modern School's cricket pitch in New Delhi.
From left- TV anchor Harsha Bhogle, Rajdeep' mother Nandini Sardesai, Veteran cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, Mohammad Azharuddin, Sunil Gavaskar, Ajit Wadekar, Nari Contractor and M...
Ajay Jadeja, Azharuddin, Ajay Sharma and Manoj Prabhakar
Former India captain Mohd Azharuddin pose for the shutterbugs at a vintage car exhibition at Falaknuma Palace, in Hyderabad.
Actor Imran Hashmi (L) with former cricket captain Mohd Azharuddin offering prayers at Nizamuddin Dargah for the success of his upcoming film 'Azhar' in New Delhi.
A cherubic Sachin with Team India mates Kapil Dev and Mohammed Azharuddin
After Congress released a CD purportedly showing Narendra Modi in pictures with hawala accused Afroz Fatta, BJP hit back by coming out with pictures showing the same man with Congr...
Congress candidate M Azharuddin at a public meeting in Tonk, Rajasthan.
Congress candidate Mohammad Azharuddin interacts with voters during his election campaign in Tonk.
Mohammad Azharuddin and Nagma wave during an election meeting in Meerut.
Congress candidate Mohammad Azharuddin takes oath while filing his nomination papers in Tonk, Rajasthan.
For what it’s worth, I got my solitary election forecast right. I spent a couple of days in Moradabad covering the election there for a magazine and predicted that Azharuddin would win that seat....
When two auto-rickshaw drivers near Moradabad railway station told me that they had voted for the Samajwadi Party in 2004 but that they would vote for Azharuddin this time round because Mulayam Singh had admitted Kalyan Singh, the world famous mosque-into-mandir illusionist, to the Samajwadi Party, I knew the Congress was home.
I know what you amateur psephologists are thinking: too small a sample. Well, you’re wrong. What you don’t know is that both drivers were Muslims and both of them were called Rais Ahmad. What are the odds that you’d randomly meet two auto-rickshaw-driving Muslims called Rais Ahmad who had the same opinion of an election in Moradabad? Before some literal-minded pedant writes in to say the odds are quite good if you hang around an auto-rickshaw stand in a town called Moradabad that’s half Muslim, let me point out that you still haven’t accounted for the shared name. Trust me, for the electorally fey, it was a sign.
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