Akhtarul Iman


Akhtarul Iman is an Indian politician from the state of Bihar. He is a former legislator in the Bihar Legislative Assembly, and represented the Kochadhaman seat. He is also the state president of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party..

Political career

Iman said that he entered politics when he was a student. In 1985, he started a campaign against burglars. Iman said that he started the campaign as "the police and administration were hand in glove" with them. In Bihar assembly election of 2005, he contested from Kochadhaman on a Rashtriya Janata Dal ticket and was elected. He also retained the seat in 2010. In February 2013, when students were being made to do the yoga asana of Surya Namaskar, Iman said that the government was trying to implement the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ideology in the state.
In 2014, he left Rashtriya Janata Dal and joined Janata Dal. He was made a candidate by his party to contest from the Kishanganj seat for the 2014 Indian general election. However on 15 April he withdrew in favour of Mohammad Asrarul Haque of the Indian National Congress citing that he did not want to split the Muslim vote as his goal was to defeat Bharatiya Janata Party.
In August 2015, Iman joined Hyderabad based All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen and in November 2015, Iman was mas made a candidate for the party from the Kochadhaman seat in the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election. In the rallies, the party workers hailed him as Sher-e-Bihar and was projected as Bihar's Asaduddin Owaisi. He said that if people of the Paswan and Yadav community can have their own political parties, then Muslims should also have their own. He was also the party's president for Bihar state.
However, he lost the election to Mujahid Alam of Janata Dal. Iman polled 37,000 votes compared to Alam's 56,000. in Indian general election, 2019 Iman was made a candidate for the AIMIM from the Kishanganj seat. In a detailed interview with Maktoob Media, Bihar MIM chief and Kishanganj candidate demanded special status for Seemanchal.