Sarfaraz Alam | |
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Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
In office 14 March 2018 –23 May 2019 | |
Preceded by | Mohammed Taslimuddin |
Succeeded by | Pradeep Kumar Singh |
Constituency | Araria |
Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly for Araria | |
In office 2010–2019 | |
In office 1996–2005 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Village- Sisona,Thana- Jokihat,Post Office- Jokihat,Dist- Araria |
Nationality | Indian |
Political party | Rashtriya Janata Dal |
Parent | Mohammed Taslimuddin |
Sarfraz Alam is an Indian politician who represented the Araria seat of Bihar in the Indian Parliament as a candidate of Rashtriya Janata Dal from 2018 to 2019.
Alam is the son of Mohammed Taslimuddin,who was a member of Rashtriya Janata Dal and an MP from the Araria seat. He has 7 children with his wife Begum Shania. [1]
Alam had been elected to the Bihar Legislative Assembly (from Jokihat seat) for four terms (1996,2000,2010,2015) - first and second term as a candidate of Rashtriya Janata Dal,and the next two as a candidate of Janata Dal (United). [2]
In January 2016,he was suspended by his party after a FIR was lodged against him for allegedly misbehaving with a couple in a train. [3]
In February 2018,Alam rejoined Rashtriya Janata Dal. He said that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had betrayed secular forces by breaking the Mahagathbandhan alliance and allying with Bharatiya Janata Party. [4] Subsequently,he was nominated by the party to contest the Parliamentary bypoll for the seat of Araria (vacated due to the death of sitting MP Mohammed Taslimuddin). [5] He won the election,held in March by a margin of 61 thousand votes. [6]
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