Syed Shahnawaz Hussain
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Syed Shahnawaz Hussain is a former Indian federal minister and a politician of Bharatiya Janata Party.
Born in Bihar in 1968 he studied engineering at Patna and Delhi. He was elected to Lok Sabha in 1999 and was appointed minister of state for food processing industries, youth affairs and sports, human resource development and civil aviation. He was given independent charge of Ministry of Coal in 2001. He is one of a small group of prominent Muslim leaders in the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a married to a Hindu whom he met during the college days in Delhi. While in Delhi, he formed the union of rickshaw-pullers who typically hail from his home state of Bihar. He candidly voiced against the poor and poverty-stricken image of those hailing from Bihar and blames fellow native and strongman Laloo Prasad Yadav for projecting the poor image.
He lost the incumbent Lok Sabha in 2004, but re-entered the Lok Sabha in November 2006, when he won the vacant seat of Bhagalpur in Bihar. Shahnawaz is well recognized figure in a party although a Muslim in a party that wider Hindu base.
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