Rizwan Arshad


Rizwan Arshad is an Indian politician serving the Indian National Congress from the southern state of India, Karnataka. He is the MLA for Shivajinagar Assembly. He was the Congress-JDS joint candidate for Bangalore Central constituency for 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, where he lost the Parliamentary election for the against BJP's P. C. Mohan. He also holds the position of Chairman – Communications Department, KPCC.

Personal life

Rizwan Arshad comes from an ordinary non-political background as his father, R Q Arshad was an Advocate, his mother, Shehnaz Arshad, an MA in English Literature. He has two siblings: Humaira and Safiya. He is married to Najeeha and has two children, Faizan and Afzan.
Rizwan Arshad is a Bachelor of Commerce from St. Philomena's College, Mysore.

Political career

Rizwan Arshad started his political career through NSUI in 1995-96, when he was elected as the class
representative, St. Philomena's College. In 1997-98, he was elected as Senate member, University of Mysore.
He served as President College Unit, NSUI, Vice President Mysore District Unit NSUI and State General Secretary, Karnataka State Unit NSUI and National General Secretary in 1999
He continued his career with Indian Youth Congress as Vice President, Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress Committee and National Secretary, Indian Youth Congress New Delhi.
In 2011, Rizwan became the first elected State President of Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress with a decisive margin. In 2014, he was re-elected as President of KPYCC by garnering whopping 21,000 of 29,000 votes.
Rizwan Arshad was the Congress Candidate from Bengaluru Central in 2014 Lok Sabha elections, but he lost to BJP candidate P. C. Mohan. He secured 4,19,630 votes as against 5,57,130 by P. C. Mohan.
On 10 June 2016, he was elected to the Karnataka Legislative Council by getting 34 MLA votes, while the required quota to be elected was 29. As MLC, Rizwan Arshad was instrumental in getting funds for several development and infrastructure in Bengaluru.
Rizwan Arshad was the Congress-JDS joint candidate for Bangalore Central constituency for 2019 Lok Sabha Elections. Rizwan Arshad received 5,31,885 votes in comparison to winning candidate P. C. Mohan, BJP who received 6,02,853 votes.
Rizwan Arshad is MLA of Shivajinagar Assembly after winning the December 5, 2019 bypolls. The bypoll elections was due to the disqualification of R. Roshan Baig, |url=https://www.news18.com/news/politics/denied-bjp-ticket-disqualified-karnataka-mla-roshan-baig-does-not-file-nomination-as-independent-2391785.html |agency=PTI |publisher=News18.com |date=Nov 18, 2019