Abdul Bari Siddiqui is an Indian politician who was the Finance Minister of Bihar. He was a MLA representing Alinagar,

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Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

. Siddiqui is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal political party. He won in the

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. In 2019 Loksabha elections he contested from Darbhanga and lost to Gopal Jee Thakur of BJP. Previously, Siddiqui was the

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following the 2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election until the split between

JD(U) Janata Dal (United) ("People’s Party (United)”) abbreviated as JD(U) is an Indian political party with political presence mainly in eastern and north-eastern India. JD(U) is recognised as a state party in the states of Bihar , Arunachal Pr ...

and

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led the latter to leave the government and become the official opposition. Siddiqui was elected the chairman of the

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in September, 2015 defeating former association president Vinod Kumar. He is also the head of the Bihar Badminton Association. He is known to be a close associate of Lalu Prasad Yadav. When asked in 2009, to contest the Madhubani Parliamentary Elections, he filed his nomination and unsuccessfully contested, losing by the margin of 10k votes, which led to trailingredients of Dr. Shakeel Ahmed to 3rd position. He again contested 2014 Madhubani Loksabha elections unsuccessfully losing to veteran BJP leader

Hukumdev Narayan Yadav Hukmdev Narayan Yadav (born 17 November 1939) is a politician from Bihar, who has been Union Minister of State. He is the recipient of Padma Bhushan India's third highest civilian award. He represented the Madhubani constituency of Bihar 1977 ...

by a margin of 15k votes. He is 7th time MLA. Previously he used to contest from Bahera. After delimination of that constituency, he contested from Alinagar. Abdul Bari Siddiqui representing JP defeated Harinath Mishra of Congress in 1977 from Bahera, which was the first time he became an MLA. Siddiqui has won 7 times as a Member of Bihar Legislative Assembly. His son, Anis Bari pursued MBA from

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, Manila. His son is a student at Harvard University and daughter is studying at London School of Economics. He has asked them to settle abroad and become citizen of that countries and not return to India. He is an entrepreneur and runs a start-up based in Delhi.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Siddiqui, Abdul Bari Living people Indian Muslims United Progressive Alliance candidates in the 2014 Indian general election Leaders of the Opposition in the Bihar Legislative Assembly Bihar MLAs 2015–2020 Rashtriya Janata Dal politicians People from Darbhanga district Finance Ministers of Bihar 1960 births Janata Dal politicians Janata Party politicians Janata Party (Secular) politicians