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Arif Mohammad Khan (born 18 November 1951) is an Indian politician who is currently serving as the Governor of Kerala. He is a former Union Minister. He has held several portfolios ranging from energy to civil aviation.

Contents

• 1 Early life and education
• 2 Political career
• 3 Islam reformation
• 4 Samarpan
• 5 Current activities
• 6 Governor of Kerala (2019 - present)
• 7 See also
• 8 References
• 9 Sources

Early life and education

Arif Mohammad Khan was born on 18 November 1951 in Bulandshahr. He was educated at Jamia Millia School, Delhi, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh and at Shia College, Lucknow University.

Political career

Khan started his political career as a student leader. He was the President of Aligarh Muslim University Students' Union in the year 1972-73 and also its honorary Secretary a year earlier (1971–72). He contested the first legislative *embly election from Siyana cons*uency of Bulandshahar on Bharatiya Kranti Dal party's banner but was defeated. He became a member of the legislative *embly of UP in 1977 at the age of 26.

Khan joined the Indian National Congress party and was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1980 from Kanpur and 1984 from Bahraich. In 1986, he quit the Indian National Congress due to differences over the p*age of Muslim Personal Law Bill which was piloted by Rajiv Gandhi in the Lok Sabha. He was against the legislation to enable Matha' to Muslim divorcee women as per Qur'an and resigned because of differences with Rajiv Gandhi on this issue. Khan joined the Janata Dal and was re-elected to the Lok Sabha in 1989. During the Janata Dal rule Khan served as union Minister of Civil aviation and Energy. He left the Janata Dal to join the Bahujan Samaj Party and again entered the Lok Sabha in 1998 from Bahraich. Khan held ministerial responsibilities from 1984 to 1990. In 2004, he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha election as a BJP candidate that year from Kaiserganj cons*uency. Khan re-entered BJP in 2015 after Narendra Modi became the Prime minister of India.

Arif Mohammad Khan is best known for opposing a bill p*ed in Indian Parliament, the Muslim Personal Law Bill.

Islam reformation

Arif Mohammad Khan has always supported reformation within Muslims. He resigned from position of Minister of state protesting against Rajiv Gandhi Congress Government stand on Shah Bano case in 1986. He defended Supreme Court judgment on Shah Bano case in Parliament. Arif opposed triple talaq in India and said that it should be punishable with 3 years in jail. Khan has *erted that Muslim men are still allowed to be polygamous and can also give a divorce easily by paying paltry sums. He is actively involved in policy making and Islam reformation. He has written various books and given multiple lectures. He is also *ociated with various think-tanks.

Samarpan

Khan and his wife Reshma Arif run the Samarpan for physically challenged people.

Current activities

Khan has been deeply involved in writing since his student days. He is the author of the best selling book of the year 2010 Text and Context: Quran and Contemporary Challenges, published by Rupa & Co. Now Arif Mohammad Khan is actively involved in writing articles and columns related to Islam and Sufism. He has advocated abolishing of All India Muslim Personal Law Board. Arif Mohammad Khan also supported the Supreme Court of India's judgment in Shah Bano case to make the right to maintenance of a divorced Muslim wife absolute.

Governor of Kerala (2019 - present)

Khan was appointed the Governor of Kerala on 1 September 2019 by the order of the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind. He took charge as Governor on 6 September 2019 from P. Sathasivam.

See also

• The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986
• Shah Bano case
• Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
• Nighat Abb*
• Syed Zafar Islam
• Tahir Aslam Gora
• Tarek Fatah

References

Sources

• Parliament of India profile

• Official residence
• Women governors

New and
Renewwable
EnergyCoalOther

• NLC India Limited
• Singareni Collieries Company
• Coal Mines Provident Fund Organisation
• Coal controller organisation
• Commissioner of payments

Legislations

• The Coking Coal Mines (Emergency Provisions) Ordinance
• Coking Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1972
• Coal Mines (Nationalisation) Act, 1973
• Colliery Control Order, 2000
• Coal Mines (Conservation & Development) Act, 1974 and Coal Mines (Conservation & Development) Rules, 1975
• The Collection of Statistics Act, 1953 and the Collection of Statistics (Central) Rules, 1959
• Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition & Development) Act, 1957
• Coal Mines Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1948
• Coal Mines Pension Scheme, 1998
• Mines and Minerals (Regulation & Development) Act, 1957

Secretaries

• Susheel *ar
• Inder Jit Singh
• Sumanta Chaudhuri
• Dr. Anil *ar Jain (in*bent)

Ministers

• Biju Patnaik
• Vasant Sathe
• P. A. Sangma (MoS, IC)
• Ajit *ar Panja (MoS, IC)
• Jagdish Tytler (MoS, IC)
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• S. R. Bommai
• Kanti Singh
• Inder *ar Gujral
• Inder *ar Gujral
• Dilip Ray (MoS, IC)
• N. T. Shanmugam (MoS, IC)
• Syed Shahnawaz Hussain (MoS, IC)
• Ram Vilas Paswan
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• Lal Krishna Advani
• Uma Bharati
• Kariya Munda
• Mamata Banerjee
• Shibu Soren
• Manmohan Singh
• Shibu Soren
• Manmohan Singh
• Shibu Soren
• Manmohan Singh
• Shriprakash Jaiswal (MoS, IC)
• Piyush Goyal (MoS, IC)
• Pralhad Joshi (in*bent)

Petroleum and
Natural G*chemes

• Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana

Projects

• Urja Ganga Gas Pipeline Project
• National Infrastructure Pipeline

PSUsOther

• Strategic Petroleum Reserve (India)

Secretaries

• K D Tripathi
• M M Kutty (in*bent)

Ministers

• Humayun Kabir
• O. V. Alagesan (MoS, IC)
• Asoka Mehta
• Kotha Raghuramaiah (MoS, IC)
• Triguna Sen
• Dajisaheb Chavan (MoS, IC)
• Prakash Chandra Sethi
• H. R. Gokhale
• Devakanta Barua
• Keshav Dev Malviya
• Morarji Desai
• H. N. Bahuguna
• Ravindra Varma
• T. A. Pai
• Aravinda Bala Pazhanoor
• Charan Singh
• S. N. Kacker
• Indira Gandhi
• Prakash Chandra Sethi
• Virendra Patil
• Prakash Chandra Sethi
• P Shiv Shankar
• Naval K Sharma (MoS, IC)
• Chandrashekhar Singh (MoS, IC)
• N. D. Tiwari
• Brahm Dutt (MoS, IC)
• V. P. Singh
• M. S. Gurupadaswamy
• Chandra Shekhar
• Satya Prakash Malaviya
• B. Shankaranand
• Satish Sharma (MoS, IC)
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee
• H. D. Deve Gowda
• I. K. Gujral
• Janeshwar Mishra
• Vazhappady K. Ramamurthy
• Ram Naik
• Mani Shankar Aiyar
• Murli Deora
• S. Jaipal Reddy
• M. Veerappa Moily
• Dharmendra Pradhan (MoS, IC till 03 September 2017) (in*bent)

Minister of State

• Chandrashekhar Singh (1985 - 1986)
• Dinsha Patel (2006-2009)
• Jitin Prasada (May 2009 - Jan 2011)
• R. P. N. Singh (19 Jan 2011 – 28 Oct 2012)
• Panabaka Lakshmi (28 Oct 2012 – 17 May 2014)

Department of
Atomic EnergyUniversities

• Homi Bhabha National Ins*ute
• Tata Ins*ute of Fundamental Research

Aided Sector

• National Ins*ute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar
• National Board for Higher Mathematics
• Atomic Energy Education Society
• Tata Memorial Centre
• Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences
• Saha Ins*ute of Nuclear Physics
• Ins*ute of Physics
• Harish-Chandra Research Ins*ute
• Ins*ute of Mathematical Sciences
• Ins*ute for Plasma Research

Secretaries

• Dr. K.N.Vyas (in*bent)

Ministers of State

• Jitendra Singh (in*bent)

Related

• India–United States Civil Nuclear Agreement
• Opposition to the Indo-US civilian agreement in India
• India's three-stage nuclear power programme
• Nuclear Liability Act

Schemes

• UDAN

Missions

• Vande Bharat Mission

Projects

• National Infrastructure Pipeline
• Civil Air Department RG-1 Rohini
• Civil Aviation Department MG-1
• Civil Aviation Department Mrigasheer
• Civil Aviation Department Revathi
• Hindustan Ardhra

Secretaries

• Pradeep Singh Kharola(in*bent)

Ministers

• John Mathai(Minister of Transport)
• N. Gopalaswami Ayyangar(Minister of Transport and Railways)
• Lal Bahadur Shastri(Minister of Railways and Transport)
• Hari Vinayak Pataskar
• Lal Bahadur Shastri(Minister of Transport and Communications)
• S. K. Patil(Minister of Transport and Communications)
• P. Subbarayan(Minister of Transport and Communications)
• Jagjivan Ram(Minister of Transport and Communications)
• Satya Narayan Sinha
• Nityanand Kanungo(As MoS)
• Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy(Minister of Transport, Aviation, Shipping, and Tourism)
• Karan Singh
• Raj Bahadur
• Kotha Raghuramaiah
• Purushottam Kaushik
• Mohammad Shafi Qureshi
• Janaki Ballabh Patnaik
• Anant Prasad Sharma
• Bhagwat Jha Azad (MoS, IC)
• Khurshed Alam Khan
• Jagdish Tytler
• Motilal Vora
• Shivraj Patil (MoS, IC)
• Arif Mohammed Khan
• Harmohan Dhawan(MoS, IC)
• Madhavrao Scindia
• Ghulam Nabi Azad
• V. Dhananjaya *ar
• Ananth *ar
• Sharad Yadav
• Syed Shahnawaz Hussain
• Rajiv Pratap Rudy (MoS, IC)
• Praful Patel (MoS, IC)
• Vayalar Ravi
• Ajit Singh
• Ashok Ga*athi Raju
• Narendra Modi
• Suresh Prabhu
• Hardeep Singh Puri(MoS, IC)(in*bent)

Other

• Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan