Amanatullah Khan (born 10 January 1974) is an Indian politician and is member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party and represents Okhla (Assembly constituency) of Delhi in the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi.[1] Khan is the elected chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board since November 2020.[2]
Amanatullah Khan | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office 12 February 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Asif Muhammad Khan |
| Constituency | Okhla |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 January 1974 Agwanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Political party | Aam Aadmi Party |
| Other political affiliations | Lok Jan Shakti Party |
| Spouse | Shafia Khan |
| Children | 2 |
| Profession |
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Early life
editAmanatullah Khan was born on 10 January 1974,[3] in Agwanpur village, Meerut district, to Waliullah Khan. He attended the Jamia Millia Islamia but did not complete his degree. He is educated till twelfth grade, which he passed in 1992–93.[4][5] He is married to Shafia Khan and has a son and a daughter.[4]
Political career
editKhan had unsuccessfully contested in the 2008 Delhi Legislative Assembly election and 2013 Delhi Legislative Assembly election as a Lok Jan Shakti Party candidate. In 2013 he got 3600 votes and ended on sixth position.[6][7][8]
Since 2015 Amanatullah Khan is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party.
Member of Legislative Assembly (2015–2020)
editIn 2015, he contested elections for the Legislative Assembly of Delhi and won, becoming a member of the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi.
On 20 July 2016, a woman alleged that Khan's supporters threatened her after her complaint about electricity supply. She then filed a case against Khan for allegedly threatening her at the Jamia Nagar Police station in South Delhi.[9] On 23 July Khan held a press conference and said that the woman was "pressurised" by the police to give a false statement against him.[10] When the incident was reported, Khan said he was out of the town in Meerut on 9 and 10 July, and his children were in Kashmir on a holiday.[9] Next day on 24 July 2016 Delhi Police arrested Khan and sent him to custody. On 28 July 2016 Khan got bail from the court as he was not required for the investigation.[10] The Aam Aadmi Party released a video footage and a transcript of a conversation involving the complainant woman saying that, "the SHO of Jamia Nagar police station asked her to add allegations of threats — on raping and killing her — in the FIR". AAP said that other AAP MLAs were also similarly targeted like Khan in false cases by Delhi Police.[9]
On 18 April 2017, Khan said that members of the Indian National Congress had fired guns at him in the presence of police, when members of the Congress and Aam Aami Party clashed with each other in the Jamia Nagar area ahead of local municipal elections.[11] On 28 January 2018, two members of Congress filed assault case against Khan.[12]
On 20 February 2018, an assault case was filed by Delhi Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash against Khan and fellow legislator Prakash Jarwal for allegedly slapping and abusing him.[13] In 2021, a Delhi court dismissed the assault case filed by the Delhi bureaucrat against Kejriwal and ten AAP MLAs and discharged them of all charges. The court noted that "no prima facie case" was made against them.[14]
Member of Legislative Assembly (2020 onwards)
editIn 2020 he defeated Braham Singh of BJP by a margin of 71,664 votes in the 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections. Since 2020, he is an elected member of the 7th Delhi Assembly. His term as MLA in the Seventh Legislative Assembly of Delhi is his second term.
In April 2020, a video of man assaulting a 14 year old child at Dasna temple in UP had gone viral. Yati Narsinghand Saraswati, chief priest of Dasna Devi temple, released a video supporting the assaulter and also made disparaging comments against Prophet Muhammad. Khan filed a police complaint at Jamia Nagar police station against Saraswati for "hurting religious sentiments". He said, "There are uncouth words that are below the standards of being repeated. It is needless to say that such statements for cheap publicity and personal gain hurts sentiments of Muslims at large. Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati with all his knowledge and intention has hurt religious sentiments of the Muslim community not only in India, but all the over the world." Khan had posted a reaction video where he was seen calling for Narsinghand's beheading and cutting off his tongue, followed by a statement that even though his words call for beheading, "we have faith in the Constitution and the law and we hope an FIR will be registered against him and he will be sent to jail". Later a police complaint was filed against Khan for allegedly threatening Narsinghand.[15]
Khan had publicly criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party led Union government. In May 2022, the BJP led Municipal body in Delhi had organised a drive where structures were destroyed with bulldozers (backhoe). Khan led protests against the demolition drive and was arrested for the same. He was released on bail next day.[16]
- Chairman (2020-2022), Committee on Welfare of Minorities[18]
- Member (2020-2022), General Purposes Committee[18]
- Member (2020-2022), Committee on the issues related to Unauthorised Colonies[18]
- Member (2020-2023), Committee on Government Undertakings[19]
- Member (2022-2023), Library Committee[19]
- Member (2022-2023), Committee on Ethics[19]
- Member (2022-2023), Committee on Welfare of Minorities[19]
- Member (2022-2023), House Committee on Violation of Protocol Norms and Contemptuous Behaviour By Government Officers with MLAs - (Elected by the House)[19]
Criminal history
editKhan was arrested in 2016 for threatening a woman with rape and murder.[20] Police declared him history-sheeter in March 2022. 18 First Information Reports (FIRs) have been levelled against him till March 2022. In May he was arrested for protesting against the anti-encroachment drive. He is also considered as a habitual criminal as he was involved in land-grabbing and hurt offences. He also failed to deter from criminal activities despite the prosecutions made against him.[21]
On 16 September 2022, he was arrested again in a corruption case. On 26 September he was sent to Judicial custody and released on bail on 28 September 2022.[22]
He was arrested again in 2024 by the Enforcement Directorate for financial irregularities and alleged illegal recruitment of staff within the Delhi Waqf Board during his tenure as the chairman between 2018 and 2022.[23]
Electoral performance
edit| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Parvez Hashmi | 29,303 | 28.53 | −26.30 | |
| RJD | Asif Muhammad Khan | 28,762 | 28.00 | −0.06 | |
| BSP | Braham Singh Bidhuri | 22,064 | 21.48 | +20.23 | |
| BJP | Surender Kumar | 14,049 | 13.68 | −14.26 | |
| SP | Wasim Ahmed Ghazi | 4,499 | 4.38 | +7.96 | |
| LJP | Amanatullah Khan | 699 | 0.68 | ||
| Majority | 541 | 0.53 | −26.36 | ||
| Turnout | 102,726 | 49.0 | −4.91 | ||
| INC hold | Swing | -26.30 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Asif Muhammad Khan | 50,004 | 36.34 | +14.28 | |
| AAP | Irfanullah Khan | 23,459 | 17.05 | ||
| BJP | Dhir Singh Bidhuri | 23,358 | 16.98 | +13.86 | |
| BSP | Braham Singh | 20,392 | 14.82 | −7.96 | |
| JD(U) | Shoab Danish | 9,735 | 7.08 | ||
| LJP | Amanatullah Khan | 3,747 | 2.72 | ||
| SP | Amiruddin | 2,395 | 1.74 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 454 | 0.33 | ||
| Majority | 26,545 | 19.29 | +13.09 | ||
| Turnout | 137,632 | 58.33 | |||
| INC gain from RJD | Swing | +14.28 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAP | Amanatullah Khan | 104,271 | 62.56 | +45.51 | |
| BJP | Braham Singh | 39,739 | 23.84 | +6.86 | |
| INC | Asif Muhammad Khan | 20,135 | 12.08 | −24.26 | |
| BSP | Ashraf Kamal | 696 | 0.41 | −14.41 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 519 | 0.31 | −0.02 | |
| Majority | 64,352 | 38.72 | +19.43 | ||
| Turnout | 1,66,702 | 60.94 | |||
| AAP gain from INC | Swing | +33.38 | |||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAP | Amanatullah Khan | 130,367 | 66.03 | +3.47 | |
| BJP | Braham Singh | 58,540 | 29.65 | +5.81 | |
| INC | Parvez Hashmi | 5,123 | 2.59 | −9.49 | |
| BSP | Dharam Singh | 830 | 0.42 | +0.01 | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 637 | 0.32 | +0.01 | |
| Majority | 71,827 | 36.38 | −2.34 | ||
| Turnout | 1,97,652 | 58.97 | −1.97 | ||
| Registered electors | 3,35,539 | ||||
| AAP hold | Swing | +3.47 | |||
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- ^ "Clash between AAP MLA and Congress social worker, two FIRs lodged". The Hindu. 28 January 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
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- ^ Ohri, Raghav (12 August 2021). "Court throws out assault case against Arvind Kejriwal and 10 Others". The Economic Times. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
- ^ "FIR against AAP's Amanatullah Khan for 'threatening' Dasna temple priest". The Indian Express. 5 April 2021. Archived from the original on 7 April 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
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