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- He hailed from Barabanki District of United Provinces,
now Uttar Pradesh, in north India.
- After attending Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College in
Aligarh, Kidwai entered politics through the Khilafat
movement.
- Kidwai was a major ally of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first
Prime Minister of India.
- After India gained independence from the British Raj in
1947, Kidwai became India's first Minister for
Communications. (Kidwai and Abul Kalam Azad were the two
Muslims in Nehru's central cabinet).
- Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology is named after
him.
- He played a major role in donating 20 acres of the
Campus land and Rs. 100,000 for the Radiotherapy machine.
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