[2] He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Fatehpur, Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Indian National Congress.
[3][4][5] Ansar was born in 1916 in Rudauli, in Uttar Pradesh.
His brother, Asrar-ul-Haq "Majaz" was also a prominent Urdu poet, and sister Hamida Salim, was a notable poet and writer.
His other sister, Safia Akhtar was also a writer and critic, and his nephew is lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar.
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