Syed Basharat Ahmed Bukhari | |
Education: | BA, PG Diploma in Tour and Travel management, Import Export management |
Alma Mater: | University of Kashmir |
Birth Date: | 17 September 1962 |
Birth Place: | Anantnag Jammu and Kashmir |
Residence: | Kreeri (Ancestral Village) Baramulla Jammu and Kashmir |
Nationality: | Indian |
Children: | AlanBukhari(daughter) and Alyaan Bukhari(son) |
Office1: | Member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council |
Term Start1: | 11 April 2004 |
Term End1: | 31 December 2008 |
Constituency1: | Sangrama (District Baramulla) |
Office2: | Member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly |
Term Start2: | 2009 |
Predecessor2: | Shoaib Nabi Lone |
Successor2: | Constituency abolished |
Term End2: | 2018 |
Constituency2: | Sangrama |
Office3: | Minister for Law, Justice, Parliamentary affairs, Relief and Rehabilitation in Government of Jammu and Kashmir |
Term Start3: | 1 March 2015 |
Term End3: | 7 January 2016 |
Office4: | Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation in Government of Jammu and Kashmir |
Term Start4: | 5 April 2016[1] |
Term End4: | 17 February 2017 |
Office5: | Minister for Horticulture in Government of Jammu and Kashmir[2] |
Term Start5: | 21 February 2017[3] |
Term End5: | 30 April 2018 |
Office6: | Minister for Horticulture,Law,Justice and Parliamentary affairs Government of Jammu and Kashmir [4] |
Term Start6: | 1 May 2018 |
Term End6: | 19 June 2018 |
Syed Basharat Ahmad Bukhari (born 17 September 1962) is an Indian politician and broadcaster from Jammu and Kashmir. He served as a member of the Legislative Council and a member of the Legislative Assembly from the now defunct Sangrama Assembly constituency. [5] [6] [7]
Bukhari is from Sangrama, Baramulla district, Jammu and Kashmir. He is the son of Syed Rafi Ud din Bukhari. His wife is a teacher. He completed his B.A. in 1986 at a college affiliated with Kashmir University.[8]
Bukhari is also the former minister for Law, Justice, Revenue, Parliamentary affairs, Horticulture, Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction of the erstwhile state, Jammu and Kashmir, India. He won from Sangrama Assembly constituency representing the Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party in the 2014 Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly election. He polled 12,127 votes and defeated his nearest rival, Shuib Nabi Lone of the Indian National Congress, by a margin of 1,754 votes.[9]