Tariq Anwar | |
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| Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
| Assumed office 4 June 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Dulal Chandra Goswami |
| Constituency | Katihar |
| In office 2014–2018 | |
| Preceded by | Nikhil Kumar Choudhary |
| Succeeded by | Dulal Chandra Goswami |
| Constituency | Katihar |
| In office 1996–1999 | |
| Preceded by | Mohammad Yunus Saleem |
| Succeeded by | Nikhil Kumar Choudhary |
| Constituency | Katihar |
| In office 1980–1989 | |
| Preceded by | Yuvraj Singh |
| Succeeded by | Yuvraj Singh |
| Constituency | Katihar |
| General Secretary of AICC forKerala &Lakshadweep | |
| In office 11 September 2020 – 23 December 2023 | |
| Appointed by | Sonia Gandhi |
| Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries | |
| In office 28 October 2012 – 16 May 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Manmohan Singh |
| Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
| In office 2004–2014 | |
| Constituency | Maharashtra |
| 20thPresident of Bihar Pradesh Congress Committee | |
| In office 1988–1989 | |
| AICC President | Rajiv Gandhi |
| Preceded by | Dumar Lal Baitha |
| Succeeded by | Jagannath Mishra |
| 6thPresident of Indian Youth Congress | |
| In office 1982–1985 | |
| Preceded by | Ghulam Nabi Azad |
| Succeeded by | Anand Sharma |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1951-01-16)16 January 1951 (age 74) |
| Political party | Indian National Congress (1972–1999; 2018–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Nationalist Congress Party (1999–2018) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 5 |
| Occupation | Politician |
Tariq Anwar (born 16 January 1951) is an Indian politician from theIndian National Congress (INC), and aMember of Parliament representingKatihar (Lok Sabha constituency) in Bihar, India. He served as theMinister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries between 2012 and 2014.[1]
Anwar has been a member of theIndian Parliament for more than three decades – elected six times to theLok Sabha, the lower house, fromKatihar, and two times to theRajya Sabha, the upper house, fromMaharashtra.[2] He quit the INC over a presidency dispute of the party in 1999 and formed theNationalist Congress Party along withSharad Pawar andP. A. Sangma, before resigning 19 years after, and re-joining the INC in 2018. Anwar has been appointed both general secretary in charge of poll-bound Kerala and a member of the Congress Working Committee (CWC).
Tariq Anwar was born as Shah Tariq Anwar to Shah Mushtaque Ahmad, former Member of theBihar Legislative Assembly from theSikandra Assembly constituency and Bilquis Jahan on 16 January 1951 in Arwal, Bihar.[3]
He is grandson of the Shah Mohammad Zubair, a freedom fighter. Brothers of his grandfather wereShah Mohammad Umair,Shah Zohair.[4] His grandfather is known to be the maker of Shri Krishna Sinha.[5]
He has aB.Sc degree fromMagadh University,Bodh Gaya, Bihar.[6]
Anwar joined theIndian National Congress in 1972.[7] His political career began a student leader. He contested his first Lok Sabha election fromKatihar on a Congress ticket in 1977 which he lost before winningthree year later. He has been the national president ofIndian Youth Congress. In 1989, he was offered the post of the minister of finance in thegovernment of Bihar, headed bySatyendra Narayan Sinha.[8]
In May 1999, Anwar along with other leaders of the INC,Sharad Pawar andP. A. Sangma, rebelled against a foreign-originSonia Gandhi being chosen as the party's Prime Minister-candidate ahead of thegeneral election. In an open letter, they questioned her "experience and understanding of public life" in being able to rule a country "with a population of 980 million".[9] A few days later, they were expelled from the party's prime membership for six years.[10] They later quit the party and formedNationalist Congress Party (NCP). However, the NCP chose to support the INC-ledUnited Progressive Alliance for two terms at the centre between 2004 and 2014. In October 2012, Anwar was appointedMinister of State for Agriculture and Food Processing.[11][12] During the time, he served as a member of theRajya Sabha, the upper house of theIndian Parliament, representingMaharashtra.[13]
In September 2018, he resigned from the NCP over colleague Pawar's clean chit to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi in theRafale deal controversy, and re-joined the INC the following month.[7]
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| Preceded by | Leader of theNationalist Congress Party in the16th Lok Sabha 2014–2018 | |