Mian Altaf Ahmad Larvi | |
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میاں الطاف احمد لاروی | |
Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha | |
Assumed office 4 June 2024 | |
Preceded by | Hasnain Masoodi (as Anantag) |
Constituency | Ananatnag-Rajouri |
Member of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly | |
In office 1987–2018 | |
Constituency | Kangan |
Cabinet Minister Social Welfare Department & Health and Medical Education Department | |
In office 1996–2002 | |
Governor | K. V. Krishna Rao Girish Chandra Saxena |
Cabinet Minister Forestry Department, Ecology & Environment. | |
In office 2008–2014 | |
Governor | N. N. Vohra |
Personal details | |
Born | 1957 (age 66–67) Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
Political party | Jammu & Kashmir National Conference |
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Alma mater | University of Kashmir |
Mian Altaf Ahmad Larvi is an Indian politician from Jammu and Kashmir. He was a five time MLA from Kangan Assembly constituency in Ganderbal district.
He is the younger son of Mian Bashir Ahmed Larvi, a politician and a caliph of the Islamic Sufi order (Naqshbandi, Majadadi, Larvi) in Jammu and Kashmir. Mian Altaf is the grandson of saint Mian Nizam ud Din, the founding president of Gujjar-Jat Conference, a socio-political body established in 1932.[1] Mian Altaf was born in 1957 in Baba Nagri, Wangath, Kangan Ganderbal, Kashmir.[2]