Party Name : Nationalist Congress Party
Constituency : Katihar
State : Bihar
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 5 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 16
Father's Name : Shah Mushtaque Ahmed
Mother's Name : Smt. Bilquis Jahan
Date of birth : 16 Jan 1951
Profession :
Positions held :
1972-74 President, Pirbahory, Thana Congress Committee1974-76 Secretary, Bihar Youth Congress Committee1976-81 President, Bihar State Youth Congress (I)1980-84 Member, 7th Lok Sabha1981 General Secretary, Indian Youth Congress (I)1982 Joint Secretary, All India Congress Committee (I)1982-85 President, Indian Youth Congress (I)1982-85 Chairman, Bihar State Small Scale Industries Corporation1985-89 Member, 8th Lok Sabha (2nd term)1985-87 Chairman, All India Congress Seva Dal (I)1987-88 President, Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee (I)1988-89 Working Chairman, Bihar Pradesh 20 Point Programme Implementation Committee1989-90 Working Chairman, Bihar State 15 Point Implementation Committee for Welfare of Minorities1993-96 Chairman, All India Congress Commiittee (I) Minority Dept.1993-96 Chairman, Ajmer Dargah Committee1996-97 Political Secretary to President, Indian National Congress1996-98 Member, 11th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1997-99 General Secretary, All India Congress Committee (I)1997-99 Elected Member, Congress Working Committee1998-99 Member, 12th Lok Sabha (4th term)1999 Onwards Founder General Secretary of Nationalist Congress PartyJuly 2004 Elected to Rajya Sabha2004-2009 Member, Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and Justice2004-2009 Member, Consultative Commitee for the Ministry of External AffairsNovember 2004 Member, Commitee on RulesApril 2008 Nominated to the panel of Vice-Chairmen, Rajya Sabha2009 Member, Department related Standing Committee on Home AffairsMember, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of FinanceLeader, NCP Party in Rajya SabhaJuly 2010 Re-elected to Rajya Sabha (2nd Term)Member, Business Advisory Committee, Rajya SabhaOctober, 2010 Chairman, Committee on Papers Laid on the Table, Rajya Sabha2010 Member, Committee on Ethics and Public Accounts CommitteeMember, Select Committee on the Wakf (Amendment) Bill, 20102011 Member, Committee on Public UndertakingsMember, Central Wakf Council Convener: Sub-Committee on the Admn. of Union TerritoriesOctober, 2012 Served as Union Minister for Agriculture and Food Processing IndustriesMay, 2014 Re-elected to 16th Lok Sabha (5th term)June, 2014 Elected as Leader of Nationalist Congress Parliamentary Party in Lok Sabha13 June 2014 onwards Member (Special Invitee), Business Advisory Committee1 Sep. 2014 -11 Sep. 2014 Member, Standing Committee on Labour11 Sep. 2014 onwards Member, Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law and JusticeMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural GasMember, Court of Jamia Milia Islamia29 Jan. 2015 onwards Member, General Purposes Committee05 Feb. 2015 onwards Member, Committee on Government Assurance
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Social And Cultural Activities
Founder President, (i) All India Qaumi Tanzeem, a registered social organization working for the welfare of weaker sections and minorities since 1986 and (ii) Jan Astha, a registered social organization since 1991; (iii) Founder Chairman, Yasmin Foundation, a registered Charitable Trust since 1997; (iv) Founder Chairman, Disha Charitable Trust since 2005; (v) Board of Trustee of Rajendra Bhawan Trust, New Delhi
Special Interests
Sports, especially Badminton
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Badminton, Table Tennis, Cricket, Football, Tennis, Volley Ball & Kabbadi; Watching Films and T.V and reading books
Sports and Clubs
Hony. Member, National Sports Club of India, Delhi; Member (ii) India International Centre, New Delhi and (iii) India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi; (iv) Life Member, Constitution Club; deeply interested in sports especially in badminton, table tennis, cricket, football, tennis, volley ball & kabaddi.
Countries Visited
Widely Travelled
Other Information
His family has been associated with the freedom struggle; His grandfather, Barrister Shah Zubair represented Bihar in Council of States. He was an eminent freedom fighter, a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and was President of Bihar and Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee. His father, Late Shah Mustaque Ahmed was Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly. He was Chairman of Bihar State Sunni Waqf Board and Bihar State Urdu Academy; started career as a journalist; Founder Editor, Chhatra, a Fortnightly tabloid in Hindi published from Patna, 1972-74; Editor, Yuvak Dhara, first a weekly tabloid and later a fortnightly magazine published from Patna from 1974 and later published form Delhi since 1982; Editor, Tanzeem Times, a monthly magazine in English published from New Delhi since 1986; Chief Editor, Sadakat Vani, a monthly magazine in Hindi published from Patna since 1988; Founder Editor, Rashtrawadi Sankalp, a weekly newspaper in Hindi published from Mumbai since 2001. He visited diferent countries • Represented as a member of Indian Delegation of World Youth festival in Cuba in 1978. • Member, Indian Parliamentary Delegation headed by the Hon’ble Speaker, Lok Sabha at the Inter Parliamentary Conference held in Ottawa (Canada) in 1985. • Member, Indian Parliamentary Delegation at the Inter Parliamentary Conference held in Bulgaria in 1987. • Member, Indian Goodwill Haj Delegation to Saudi Arabia in 1988. • Member of the Indian Delegation to the United Nations, October, 2006. • Member of the Indian Delegation to the 63rd Annual Session of United Nations General Assembly, October, 2008. • Member of Indian Parliamentary Delegation to participate in the Meeting of Standing Committee on Political Affairs and ad-hoc working Group on ICT of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly held in 2010 in Tehran (Ran). • Participated in World Agriculture Ministers` Conference at Berlin (Germany) in 2013 & 2014. • Participated in Asian Agriculture Ministers` Conference at Bangkok (Thailand) in 2014. • Visited Bangladesh, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cuba, France, Germany, Holland, Iran, Italy, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Thailand, U.A.E., U.K., Ukraine and U.S.A. as member of Parliamentary Delegation and in other capacities.
