Imran pratapgarhi biography
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Meet Imran Pratapgarhi, the rockstar poet who draws tens of thousands of fans at Urdu mushairas
Jab jab dor patang se katne lagti hai
tab tab koi CD batne lagti hai
Rahul jeet na jaaye bas is dar se
sahib ki GST ghatne lagti haiWhenever the kite’s thread gets broken
a CD starts getting distributed
to stop Rahul from winning at any cost
the ruler’s GST starts to decrease
These are the lines with which Imran Pratapgarhi began his mushaira session on a cold November night at Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, and the crowd of over 30,000 people – including the chief guest, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal – broke into rapturous applause. Despite the presence of other poets, including Altaf Zia, Saba Balrampuri and Chandni Shabnam, the biggest cheer that night was reserved for Pratapgarhi.
It is Pratapgarhi’s ability to encapsulate the prevalent political and social atmosphere in a few lines that has made the 30-year-old achieve rockstar status at Urdu mushairas in India. And he has got here without a formal training in Urdu.
Early days
Pratapgarhi, the second of 10 siblings, was born Mohammed Imran Khan on August 6, 1987, in Pratapgarh, Allahahabad, to Mohammed Iliyas Khan, a Unani medicine practitioner and Sajida Khan, a homemaker.
In a telephone interview, the poet
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Early man and idyllic career
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Who is Imran Pratapgarhi? Congress star campaigner in BJP crosshairs is an MP, recited shayari for Atiq Ahmed
Cut to 2023. While 35-year-old Pratapgarhi’s career graph has shot up since, and he is a Rajya Sabha MP of the Congress from Maharashtra, his old verses written in praise of Atiq have earned him the wrath of political rivals.
Days after Atiq and his brother Ashraf were killed in Prayagraj while in police custody, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) mounted an attack on Pratapgarhi when the Congress included his name in its list of 40 star campaigners for the 10 May Karnataka assembly elections.
However, Atiq is not the only one for whom Pratapgarhi used the title of sher in his poem. In March 2017, ahead of the UP assembly elections, he used the same quatrain for another alleged gangster-turned-politician, Mukhtar Ansari, calling him a “lion” too. Ansari was fighting his fifth election and Pratapgarhi had gone to entertain anelection rallyorganised by him in Mau, and canvas for him.
Former vice-president of the Allahabad University Student Union (AUSU) Abhay Awasthi said shayars, like other artists, sell their art.
“Many times politicians, including notorious ones, organise mushairas. Poets feel compelled to praise the organiser who has pumped money into