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Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ14920933 ↗
Source-derived summary

Md. Ali Ashraf Fatmi (born 1 January 1956) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Darbhanga constituency of Bihar.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi” as indian politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Mohammad, Ashraf and Fatmi can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as indian politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14920933. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mohammad Ali Ashraf Fatmi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.