Tariq Anwar (politician)

For other people with the same name, see Tariq Anwar (disambiguation).

Tariq Anwar

Member of the Indian Parliament for Katihar
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 May 2014
Preceded by	Nikhil Kumar Choudhary
In office 1980–1984
In office 1984–1989
In office 1996–1998
In office 1998–1999
Personal details
Born	(1951-01-16) 16 January 1951 Patna, Bihar
Political party	Indian National Congress Nationalist Congress Party
Spouse(s)	Hena Anwar
Children	1 Sons & 4 Daughters
Residence	Katihar, Bihar

Tariq Anwar (Urdu: طارق اںور‎) (born 16 January 1951) is the general secretary of the Nationalist Congress Party of India.

In 1999, Tariq Anwar along with Sharad Pawar and P A Sangma broke away from Congress (I), in protest of a person of foreign origin (Sonia Gandhi) being anointed president of Congress party. And have formed Nationalist Congress Party.^[1]

Career

His political career started from Indian National Congress, as a student leader he was very popular. He contested his first Lok Sabha election from Katihar Parliamentary constituency on a Congress ticket in 1977 which he lost. But he managed to win the 1980 Lok Sabha Election from Katihar. He has been the National President of Indian Youth Congress. In 1989, Tariq was offered the post of a ^[2] cabinet rank with Finance portfolio in the substance of deputy Chief Minister in the Bihar Cabinet, headed by veteran Satyendra Narain Sinha.

NCP chose to be part of Indian National Congress controlled UPA's federal government of India, from 2004-2014 (2 terms). On 28 October 2012, he was appointed Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing of the Government of India.^[3]

He was a Member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament. He has been Member of Lok Sabha several times from Katihar Parliamentary constituency .

References

↑ "Britannica article about NCP".
↑ http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99may23/edit.htm
↑ "Press Communique, Release ID:88654". 28 October 2012.

External links

Profile on Rajya Sabha website

Party political offices
Preceded by Sharad Pawar	Leader of the Nationalist Congress Party in the 16th Lok Sabha 2014–present	Incumbent

Members of the 16th Lok Sabha from Bihar State

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Rajya Sabha members from Maharashtra for term 2010–2016

RS Members for term: 2004-2010; 2006-2012; 2008-2014; -----; 2012-2018; 2014-2020; 2016-2022

Elected in 2010 for full term

Elected in by-elections until 2016

from 2014	Praful Patel ( Anwar - resigned )

Lok Sabha members from Maharashtra: 15th Lok Sabha (2009-2014); 16th Lok Sabha (2014-2019)

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