Rizwan Arshad

Rizwan Arshad
Member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 December 2019
Preceded byR. Roshan Baig
ConstituencyShivajinagar
Member of the Karnataka Legislative Council
In office
10 June 2016 – 17 February 2020
Succeeded byLaxman Savadi
ConstituencyKarnataka
Personal details
Born (1979-09-24) 24 September 1979 (age 45)
Karnataka, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
SpouseNajeeha Rizwan
Children2
Parents
  • R Q Arshad (father)
  • Shehnaz Arshad (mother)
ResidenceBengaluru
EducationB.Com
Alma materSt. Philomena's College, Mysore
OccupationPolitician
Websitehttp://rizwanarshad.in/

Rizwan Arshad is an Indian politician serving the Indian National Congress from the southern state of India, Karnataka. He became an MLA for the first time in December 2019 after winning the bypolls from Shivajinagar Assembly.[1][2] He was the Congress candidate for Bangalore Central constituency in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, where he lost against BJP's P. C. Mohan.[3] Five years later, he was the Congress-JDS joint candidate for Bangalore Central constituency in the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, where he again lost the parliamentary election to BJP's P. C. Mohan.[4][5][6][7]

  1. ^ "Karnataka assembly bypolls: Congress clears Rizwan Arshad for Shivajinagar". Times of India. 17 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Shivajinagar needs a cosmopolitan, urban face: Congress candidate Rizwan Arshad speaks". The News Minute. 18 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Bangalore Central Election Results". www.elections.in. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
  4. ^ "PC Mohan wins Bangalore Central". NDTV. 11 June 2016.
  5. ^ "Congress' Bangalore Central candidate Rizwan Arshad, 39, kickstarted his poll". Deccan Herald. 28 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Lok Sabha polls: Will Rizwan Arshad meet aspirations of forward looking Bengaluru?". Daijiworld. 28 March 2019.
  7. ^ "Congress Wins 4 Legislative Council Seats In Karnataka, BJP Gets 2". NDTV. 11 June 2016.