Party Name : Rashtriya Janata Dal
Constituency : Darbhanga
State : Bihar
Member Experience : Elected to Loksabha 2 time
Last Loksabha Attended : 14
Father's Name : Md. Illyas Ashraf
Mother's Name :
Date of birth : 01 Jan 1956
Profession : Engineer Social Worker, Sportsperson
Positions held :
Chief Whip, Rashtriya Janata Dal (R.J.D.) Parliamentary Party1991 Elected to 10th Lok Sabha1991-94 Member, House Committee1992-95 Member, Special Committee on Jammu and Kashmir1995-96 Member, Committee on Private Member`s Bill and Resolutions1996 Re-elected to 11th Lok Sabha (2nd term)Member, Business Advisory CommitteeMember, Committee on Home Affairs and its Sub-Commmittee on Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension SchemeMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs1991-96 Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs1993-96 Member, Committee on Urban and Rural DevelopmentMember, Consultative Committee, Ministry of External Affairs1998 Re-elected to 12th Lok Sabha (3rd term)1998-99 Member, Committee on Government Assurance1989-91 General-Secretarty, Yuva Janata Dal, Bihar1994-96 Member, Joint Select Committee on Copyright Bill, 19921996-97 Member, Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and ForestsSpokesperson, R.J.D.1998 onwards General Secretary, Rashtriya Janata Dal PartyChairman, All India Minority Committee, R.J.D.2004 Re-elected to 14th Lok Sabha (4th term)23 May 2004 onwards Union Minister of State, Human Resource Development
More Information :
Special Interests
Working for the poor and promotion of sports
Favourite Pastime and Recreation
Reading, sports, travelling, meeting people, T.V. news and discussions with friends and family members
Sports and Clubs
Criket, football, billiards, table tennis, bridge, athletics, snooker, kabaddi and badminton; Chairman, Tennis Ball Cricket Association, Bihar Chief patron, Tennis Ball Cricket Federation of India
Countries Visited
Widely travelled; Member, Indian Parliamentary Delegation led by the Hon`ble Speaker to Austria , Hungary and Iraq; Ministry of External Affairs delegation to Egypt , Moroco and Tunnis; Commonwealth countries; delegation to New Zealand and Malayasia; Government of India Delegation to Youth Festival at Havana; delegation to Iran on invitation of Speaker of Iran; Haj delegation, UNESCO, Delegation to U.K., Brazil
Other Information
General-Secretary, Aligarh Muslim University Sutdent`s Union, 1980-82; Cabinet Member, Aligarh Muslim University Association Student`s Union, 1974-77; Member, (i) Z.H. Engineering College Student`s Union, Aligarh, 1972-74; (ii) Court of the Aligarh Muslim University (A.M.U.), 1991-93; (iii) Syndicate Lalit Narayan Mishra University, Darbhanga, 1995-96 and 2002 onwards; (iv) Haj Committee, 1998-99 ; (v) Wakf Council, 1998-99 ; and (vi) Executive Council, A.M.U., Aligarh
