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January 31, 2015 0 Comment

Sahara Urdu: Through sports, we can rise to the heights of success: Jamshaid Ashraf

Sahara Urdu’s coverage of Jamshaid Ashraf’s support and involvement in encouraging sports for the youth. Photos from the Volleyball tournament in Mir Alipur.

December 2, 2014 0 Comment

Daily Mail: BJP appoints Jamshaid Ashraf to woo Lalu’s Muslim and Yadav voters

With less than a year to go before the next Assembly elections in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has set out to win over the two communities that form the core of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad’s vote bank. Muslims and Yadavs, who together account for 28 per cent of Bihar’s voter population, were key to the RJD’s three consecutive stints in power. The strategy is part of BJP’s efforts to counter the challenge posed by the RJD’s alliance with the JD(U) and the Congress, and alter the poll equations in the state. To this end, the BJP has deployed former m

December 1, 2014 0 Comment

The Telegraph: BJP bid to reach out to Muslims

The state unit of the BJP on Sunday flagged off its Bedari Yatra to reach out to Muslims. Bedari in Urdu means creating awareness. The yatra of the party aims to send the message to the Muslims that the BJP is not untouchable and that the real issue for the minority community was development. Former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, BJP state unit president Mangal Pandey and former JDU minister in the erstwhile Nitish Kumar cabinet Jamshed Ashraf flagged off the yatra. Ashraf, a former excise minister and former JDU MLA from Sahebpur Kamal, joined the BJP this year. He said: “The so-c

November 30, 2014 0 Comment

Zee News: Former JD(U) Minister Jamshaid Ashraf joins BJP

Patna: Former JD(U) minister Jamshed Ashraf on Sunday joined BJP along with his supporters in presence of senior leader Sushil Kumar Modi and the party’s Bihar unit chief Mangal Pandey. Welcoming Ashraf to the party, Modi said his presence would strengthen BJP and the cause of minorities in the state. “Welfare work for the Muslims is suffering in the state after JD(U) parted ways with BJP. Many projects were taken up when we were in the government,” said Modi, who is Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council. Modi, also former deputy chief minister, said BJP would give

November 30, 2014 0 Comment

Outlook India: Former JD(U) Minister Jamshaid Ashraf Joins BJP

Former JD(U) minister Jamshaid Ashraf today joined BJP along with his supporters in presence of senior leader Sushil Kumar Modi and the party’s Bihar unit chief Mangal Pandey. Welcoming Ashraf to the party, Modi said his presence would strengthen BJP and the cause of minorities in the state. “Welfare work for the Muslims is suffering in the state after JD(U) parted ways with BJP. Many projects were taken up when we were in the government,” said Modi, who is Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council. Modi, also former deputy chief minister, said BJP would give tickets to

November 30, 2014 0 Comment

Economic Times: Former JD(U) minister Jamshaid Ashraf joins BJP

PATNA: Former JD(U) minister Jamshaid Ashraf today joined BJP along with his supporters in presence of senior leader Sushil Kumar Modi and the party’s Bihar unit chief Mangal Pandey. Welcoming Ashraf to the party, Modi said his presence would strengthen BJP and the cause of minorities in the state. “Welfare work for the Muslims is suffering in the state after JD(U) parted ways with BJP. Many projects were taken up when we were in the government,” said Modi, who is Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council. Modi, also former deputy chief minister, said BJP would give tic

April 7, 2014 0 Comment

Aaj Tak: नीतीश सरकार के पूर्व मंत्री बीजेपी में शामिल

साबिर अली मामले में अपना हाथ जला चुकी बीजेपी जिस मौके की तलाश में थी वो नीतीश सरकार में पहले मत्री रहे जमशेद अशरफ के पार्टी में शामिल होने से पूरा हो गया. सोमवार शाम पार्टी के पटना दफ्तर में जमशेद अशरफ ने बीजेपी की सदस्यता ले ली. जमश�

June 7, 2010 0 Comment

Hindustan Times: Former minister Jamshaid Ashraf quits Bihar Assembly, JD(U)

Former Bihar minister in the Nitish Kumar government Jamshaid Ashraf today resigned from the state Assembly and primary membership of ruling JD(U) after accusing the NDA ministry of being anti-minority. “The NDA government has meted out a step motherly treatment to Muslims during its four-and-a-half-year rule,” he told a press conference here. The minority community had bestowed trust in the chief minister but he failed to do anything to alleviate the conditions of the Muslims, Ashraf said. The former excise minister rued that JD(U) had ignored the claim of the minority community i

February 28, 2010 0 Comment

Radiance Weekly: Honesty is the Worst Policy Nitish Exorcises His Excise Minister for Being Upright

The product of plus and minus is always minus. In the den of the corrupt and (power)-drunk it is virtually impossible to bring in sanity and honesty. But the sacked minister of excise of Bihar, Jamshed Ashraf, tried to do so only to be thrown out in the street. On February 18 he became the first minister of Bihar to be dismissed – even before he submitted his resignation – after many years, and that too for exposing corruption in the chief minister Nitish Kumar’s secretariat. Jamshed has certainly earned a lot of support and sympathy in his campaign as he was considered the only minister

February 22, 2010 0 Comment

The Bihar Times: Jamshaid Ashraf – A Politician with a Difference

(BiharTimes): The axed Bihar minister for excise, Jamshaid Ashraf who created a storm by directly accusing the chief minister’s secretariat of being involved in corruption is relatively new to the game of politics. Being made up of a different stuff his entry in politics too was somewhat accidental. In 2004 he met the Lok Janshakti Party leader, Ram Vilas Paswan in a plane. Paswan was impressed by him and invited him to join politics. A month later he went to meet the LJP leader. He offered him a ticket as assembly election in Bihar was due in February 2005. Jamshaid, who was not much fami