Asif Muhammad Khan

Asif Khan was born on 8 February 1961 in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh, into a politically active family. He is the younger brother of Bihar Governor Arif Mohammad Khan. His daughter Ariba Khan is councillor of Abul Fazal ward (Okhla) in MCD since 2022.^[2]

Khan contested and won his first election in 1997 from the Okhla ward of Municipal Corporation of Delhi as an independent candidate.^[3] He won the election into the Municipal Council for a second term and remained a councillor till 2007. Khan then contested the 2008 Delhi Legislative Assembly Election from a Rashtriya Janta Dal ticket from Okhla but lost to Parvez Hashmi by only 541 votes.^[4] After Hashmi was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, Khan contested the 2009 by-election and became a member of the assembly. He later switched to the Indian National Congress in 2013.^[5] He went on to win the seat for a second time in the 2013 Assembly Election. Khan lost the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly Election and came third.^[6]