Mustapha Zulfikar is a
Guyanese politician. He is the current Minister of Agriculture in
Guyana
Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...
. He was appointed minister on August 5, 2020 by
President Irfaan Ali.
Education
Mustapha Zulfikar has a degree in management from the
University of the West Indies
The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 17 English-speaking countries and territories in th ...
.
Career
Zulfikar started his career working as Assistant General Secretary of the
Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) between 1989 and 2002. In 2003, he ran for the
Guyana National Assembly and was elected that same year. He was elected for a three-year tenure which ran from 2003 to 2006. After his tenure as Member of parliament, he was subsequently appointed Regional Chairman for Region Six and was in office till 2011. In 2015, he was elected Member of Parliament till 2020.
On August 5, 2020 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture by President
Irfaan Ali
Mohamed Irfaan Ali (born 25 April 1980) is a Guyanese politician who has served as the tenth and current president of Guyana since 2020. He is the first Muslim to hold the office, along with being the second Muslim head of state in the Americas ...
.
References
Living people
Members of the National Assembly (Guyana)
University of the West Indies alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Government ministers of Guyana
Guyanese people of Indian descent
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