Kalbe Jawad is a Shia Muslim cleric from Lucknow, India.

[1] He comes from a family of scholars known as "Khandan-e-Ijtehad",[2] and traces his lineage from Dildar Ali Naseerabadi (also known as Ghufran Ma'ab), their ancestors came to Jais from Sabzevar.

[3][12] He got arrested two times during the movement:[12] The government later entered into a tripartite Shias-Sunnis-Administration agreement and nine main processions on the 1st, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th Muharrum, Chehlum, 8th Rabiul Awwal and 21st Ramzan have been restored.

[13] He has been demanding CBI inquiry into the corruption taken place in UP Shia Central Waqf Board from a very long time.

[16][17][18][19][20] In an interview condemning the execution of Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia which was posted on the Internet on 3 January 2016 (as translated by MEMRI), Jawad accused Israel and the United States to be involved in the execution, stating that: "Israeli and American hands are involved in [the execution of Sheikh Al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia] and so are other Arab countries, which have unleashed cruelty on the minorities, and are supporting and backing terrorism.