Kamal Akhtar | |
Birth Date: | 24 October 1971 |
Birth Place: | Ujhari, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Office3: | Panchayati Raj Minister of Uttar Pradesh |
Term Start3: | 2012 |
Term End3: | 2015 |
Office2: | Cabinet Minister, Food and civil Supply of Uttar Pradesh |
Term Start2: | 2015 |
Term End2: | 2017 |
Constituency1: | Hasanpur |
Office: | Member, Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly |
Term Start1: | 2012 |
Term End1: | 2017 |
Term Start: | 10 March 2022 |
Constituency: | Kanth |
Office4: | Member of Parliament Of Rajya Sabha |
Constituency4: | Uttar Pradesh |
Term Start4: | 2004 |
Term End4: | 2010 |
Party: | Samajwadi Party |
Nationality: | Indian |
Spouse: | Humera Bano |
Alma Mater: | Jamia Millia Islamia |
Profession: | Advocate, Politician |
Kamal Akhtar (born 24 October 1971) is a member of the 18th Legislative Assembly and has earlier been the former Panchayati Raj Minister of Uttar Pradesh, former Member of the Legislative Assembly, and a politician from Samajwadi Party as well as a former Member of the Parliament of India representing Uttar Pradesh in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.[1]
He lost his seat in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to Mahender Singh Kadakhvashi of the Bharatiya Janata Party.[2]
He won his seat in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election from Kanth (Moradabad).[3]
He was born in Ujhari, Amroha, Uttar Pradesh. India.
Kamaal Akhtar was born to Nafeesuddin Ahmad and Mahajabin in Ujhari.[4] He completed his B.A. (Hons.) in Economics and LL.B. at the Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi. His wife Humara Akhter was Samajwadi Party Lok sabha candidate from Amroha in the sixteenth Lok sabha election.[5]