Political career
Zafar Ali Naqvi is the Chairman of Standing Committee of National Monitoring Committee for Minorities Education. He has previously held the responsibilities of Chairman of Minorities Commission,Delhi.
Zafar is a former Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
In the 2009 Parliamentary Elections,he has closely defeated Iliyas Azmi of Bahujan Samaj Party,with a margin of 8,780 securing a total of 184,980 votes.
He was a prominent figure in a high-profile Congress campaign in Uttar Pradesh for the Indian general election,2009. Congress won 21 seats in Uttar Pradesh mainly because of the efforts of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi in the state. The election saw the Indian National Congress become the majority stake holder in Parliament.
Senior Congress leaders such as Sonia Gandhi,Digvijay Singh have raised calls for Zafar Ali Naqvi to be the candidate in 2009 elections.
His supporters claim that Zafar's promise of getting the Meter gauge railway track of the district converted to Broad gauge was delivered in mere 22 months of his becoming the MP. But the fact remains that the conversion of the gauge started after Narendra Modi became the PM and started the conversion of the gauge everywhere in India. The work is still not complete as of March 2019.
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