Sarfaraz Alam | |
Birth Place: | Village- Sisona, Thana- Jokihat, Post Office- Jokihat, Dist- Araria |
Office: | Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha |
Term Start: | 14 March 2018 |
Term End: | 23 May 2019 |
Predecessor: | Mohammed Taslimuddin |
Successor: | Pradeep Kumar Singh |
Constituency: | Araria |
Office1: | Member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly for Araria |
Term Start1: | 2010 |
Term End1: | 2019 |
Term Start2: | 1996 |
Term End2: | 2005 |
Party: | Rashtriya Janata Dal |
Nationality: | Indian |
Parents: | 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]