Haji Zakir follows Tariq Anwar, resigns from his post
SUMIT SINGH
29 SEP 2018, Pune – In the backdrop of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) co-founder and MP Tariq Anwar resigning from the party after Sharad Pawar’s endorsement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Rafale deal, several other Muslim leaders have resigned from their posts.
Those resigned include 1) Thane – Aaftab Shaikh
Secretary Maharashtra NCP Minority Department
2) Pune – Dr Haji Zakir,
Secretary Maharashtra NCP Minority
3) Yavatmal – Muhammad Aasim Ali,
National Secretary,
Nationalist Youth Congress
4) Aurangabad – Umar Patel
Vice President Aurangabad NCP
5) Asif Munaf Hakim
General Secretary ,North Central District,
Mumbai NCP
6) Kalyan – Nadeem Khan
On May 15, 1999, Tariq Anwar along with Sharad Pawar and PA Sangma, had raised the banner of revolt against then Congress chief Sonia Gandhi on grounds of her foreign origins. Later they founded NCP.
Now Anwar is expected to re-join Congress.
His political career started from Indian National Congress, as a student leader. He contested his first Lok Sabha election from Katihar Parliamentary constituency on a Congress ticket in 1977 which he lost. But he won 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[3] 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.[4]
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.
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 .
