Farooq Khan

Farooq Khan is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).^[1] Farooq is in-charge of BJP Minority Morcha^[2] and BJP's affairs in farthest North-Eastern state of Nagaland.^[3] Farooq Khan was earlier Jammu and Kashmir BJP spokesperson.^[4][5] Farooq Khan who was given a clean chit by CBI in 2003 for his alleged role in Pathribal fake encounter in which five civilians were burnt alive. He joined BJP before Indian general election, 2014 during a BJP political rally at Hiranagar in Kathua in March 2014.^[6][7] Farooq Khan is a former IPS and Inspector General of Police(IGP) in Jammu and Kashmir and led to the clearing of the Hazratbal Shrine in March 1996 in which 18 militants were killed. Khan has been also the mind behind creation of Task Force wing of JKP. Farooq was the head of the Sher-e-Kashmir Police Academy Udhampur. It was under Khan that Raghunath Temple, Jammu was freed from militants in 2003. He has been also awarded with the President's medals for gallantry, bravery and distinguished service.

Personal life

Farooq is a Dogri-speaking Punjabi Muslim of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.^[8] Farooq had a foster son, Fahad Mir(born 1996) who was killed in an accident in December 2014.^[9] His grandfather, Colonel Peer Mohammad, was the first state president of the Jammu and Kashmir Jana Sangh.^[10] Colonel Peer Mohammadod was in Hari Singh’s army who had a major contribution in the 1947 happenings in Jammu.

See also

• Sikander Bakht
• Arif Beg

References

Bharatiya Janata Party Presidents Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1980–86) Lal Krishna Advani (1986–91) Murli Manohar Joshi (1991–93) Lal Krishna Advani (1993–98) Kushabhau Thakre (1998–2000) Bangaru Laxman (2000–01) Jana Krishnamurthi (2001–02) Venkaiah Naidu (2002–04) Lal Krishna Advani (2004–06) Rajnath Singh (2006–09) Nitin Gadkari (2009–13) Rajnath Singh (2013–14) Amit Shah (2014–present) Current Vice Presidents B. S. Yeddyurappa Bandaru Dattatreya Om Prakash Mathur Parsottambhai Rupala Raghubar Das Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Satyapal Singh Malik Prabhat Jha Kiran Maheshwari Dinesh Sharma Renu Devi Vinay Sahasrabuddhe Other prominent leaders Sushma Swaraj Arun Jaitley Yashwant Sinha Subramanian Swamy Ravi Shankar Prasad Pramod Mahajan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Prime Ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee Narendra Modi Current Chief ministers Anandiben Patel Vasundhara Raje Shivraj Singh Chouhan Raman Singh Laxmikant Parsekar Manohar Lal Khattar Devendra Fadnavis Raghubar Das Spokespersons Syed Shahnawaz Hussain M. J. Akbar Meenakshi Lekhi Sudhanshu Trivedi Bizay Sonkar Shastri Nalin Kohli Sambit Patra Anil Baluni GVL Narsimha Rao Gopal Krishna Agarwal General Secretaries P. Muralidhar Rao Kailash Vijayvargiya Muralidhar Rao Ram Madhav Saroj Pandey Bhupender Yadav Anil Jain Ram Lal Arun Singh Morcha Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha BJP Mahila Morcha BJP SC Morcha BJP ST Morcha BJP OBC Morcha BJP Minority Morcha BJP Kisan Morcha Related organisations Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Bharatiya Jana Sangh Janata Party Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Others Hindutva Integral humanism