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Party
  
Bharatiya Janata Party

Role
  
Media person

Name
  
Asifa Khan

Religion
  
Islam


Asifa Khan speaking while pointing her finger and wearing an orange scarf, purple dress, cream and purple dupatta

Born
  
July 8, 1965 (age 59) Bharuch, Gujarat (
1965-07-08
)

Children
  
2 (Nazia Khan and Arsh Khan)

Political party
  
Bharatiya Janata Party

Gujarat bjp muslim face asifa khan adressing a election public meeting mp4


Asifa Khan is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She has emerged as a prominent Muslim face of BJP. She is now considered amongst the very close persons to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and also as the leading and emerging face of Muslims in the party. She represents and defends the BJP as well as put forward the views of the party on print and electronic media and also on leading TV channels.

Contents

Asifa Khan smiling while her palms together and wearing an orange scarf, cream and purple dress while there are three men beside her

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Early and personal life

On the left, Asifa Khan smiling and wearing an orange scarf and cream and purple dress while on the right, is a quotation from her

Asifa Khan hails from Bharuch district, Gujarat, to which Congress leader Ahmed Patel also belongs.She is a postgraduate in English literature. She started out as a teacher in a school run by Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilisers Ltd (GNFC), a PSU based in Bharuch where her husband works. She is a mother of two children.She lives with her family near Darul Uloom Kantharia, Gujarat’s biggest Islamic seminary, on the outskirts of Bharuch. She later got a job with Bank of Baroda there after clearing bank recruitment exams,but quit it after some time. Asifa had worked as a journalist for 17 years in both print and electronic media.She had worked as stringer with two of Gujarat's leading English newspapers,a local Gujarati newspaper Sandesh and briefly for Zee News as well. Asifa plunged into journalism leaving her studies midway. She was doing her MA in English at that time. Her daughter is married and son is in college. Asifa was offered the membership of Censor Board in 2005 when Sharmila Tagore was the chairperson by Congress leader Ahmed Patel.

Political career

Asifa Khan standing beside the men while being interviewed and wearing an orange scarf and blue dress

Asifa got interested in politics,when she was working as a teacher run by GNFC .She joined the Congress in 2008 and worked for four years as media convener of the All India Mahila Congress,after she was handpicked by Ahmed Patel to join Congress party before Indian general election, 2009.She was groomed by Ahmed Patel and even offered Lok Sabha ticket for 2009 elections by him. She joined the BJP in October 2012 just three months before Gujarat elections,after she met Narendra Modi. She was impressed by Sakhi mandals,initiated by Narendra Modi. She rapidly moved up from the BJP’s national minority morcha to its media committee. She actively campaigned for BJP in Gujarat Legislative Assembly election, 2012 held in December 2012 and played a significant role in taking Modi's developmental message to Muslim-majority areas along with Mehboobali Bavasaheb,Gujarat BJP Minority Morcha President.She coordinated the “young India leader conclave” in Gandhinagar in June 2013, which was attended by former cabinet secretary Syed Zafar Mahmood. Asifa was the first Muslim woman appointed in Gujarat BJP’s executive committee in September 2013. She is also in the national executive of the BJP Minority Morcha.


Asifa Khan, in one of her interviews, wearing a black blouse and green and cream dupatta

Asifa Khan standing beside the men while wearing sunglasses, a blue blouse, brown skirt, and blue and orange dupatta

References

Asifa Khan Wikipedia


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