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Syed Zafar Islam is an
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and former Member of Parliament in the
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from the state of
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. He is currently one of the national spokespersons of the
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. Islam is a former investment banker and the former Managing director of the
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of
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. He is regarded as one of the prominent
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of the party. He also served as a non-official independent director for
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from 2017 to 2020.


Political career


Entry into politics

Syed Zafar Islam was influenced by Narendra Modi's politics and joined the
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(BJP) on 5 April 2014 after resigning as director of
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, India . He was made the National Spokesperson of the party. In 2017, he was appointed as a non-official independent director of
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by the
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, Zafar is believed to have help Scindia shift to the BJP from the congress in 2020 and topple the elected Madhya Pradesh Congress government of
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. He also writes opinion pieces on politics and economic affairs in several national newspapers.


Member of Parliament

In the 2020 by-polls, he was elected unopposed to the vacant
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seat from
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. BJP did not nominate Zafar in 2024 and thus his term ended and had to bid farewell to his Rajya Sabha seat.


See also

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