[2][3] Together with Swami Kumaranand, he is regarded as the first person to demand complete independence for India in 1921 at the Ahmedabad Session of Congress.

[4][3][5] Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi supported the complete independence motion demanded by Hasrat Mohani.

[6] He wrote the famous ghazal 'Chupke chupke raat din' which was depicted in the 1982 Bollywood movie 'Nikaah' and sung by Pakistani singer Ghulam Ali.

He was born in 1875 [in many books it is written 1881 and 1880] as Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan at Mohan, a town in the Unnao district of United Provinces in British India.

[12][13][3] Mohani was a member of the Indian National Congress for many years and also joined the All India Muslim League, serving as its president in 1919.

To represent the remaining Indian Muslims on different platforms, Hasrat Mohani chose to live in India rather than migrate to Pakistan.

[1] He was the first person in Indian History who demanded 'Complete Independence' (Azadi-e-Kaamil) in 1921 as he presided over an annual session of All-India Muslim League.

In December 1929, his campaign for 'complete independence' resulted in the shape of Indian National Congress session in Lahore.

[14][15][16] After complete independence from the British rule, Maulana Hasrat Mohani wanted a confederal set-up on the pattern of Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR).

[13] He was also imprisoned for promoting anti-British ideas, especially for publishing an article against British policies in Egypt, in his magazine 'Urdu-e-Mualla'.

[citation needed] In recognition for his efforts, he was made a member of the constituent assembly, which drafted the Indian constitution.

Joglekar wrote in his reminiscences that he and the Bombay group came to know through VH Joshi, going to meet S. A. Dange in Kanpur jail, that Satya Bhakta, Hasrat Mohani and others were taking initiative to convene a communist conference in December 1925.

[citation needed] Hasrat Mohani was included in the Central Executive Committee elected at the conference.

[citation needed] He later attended the foundation conference of Progressive Writers’ Association (PWA) in Lucknow in 1936.

There is a Street Named Maulana Hasrat Mohani in Kadar Palace, Mumbra, Dist: Thane, Maharashtra.