Shafiqur Rahman Barq (born 11 July 1930) is an Indian politician belonging to the

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; translation: ''Socialist Party'', founded 4 October 1992) is a socialist political party in India, headquartered in New Delhi but mainly based in Uttar Pradesh, with significant presence in other states as well. With a ...

. He has been elected to Lok Sabha at various times from

Moradabad Moradabad () is a city, commissionary and municipal corporation in Moradabad district of Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Moradabad is situated on the banks of the Ramganga river, at a distance of from the national capital, New Delhi and ...

candidate and

Sambhal Sambhal is a city located in the Sambhal district of Uttar Pradesh state in India. The city lies approximately 158 kilometres (98 mi) east of New Delhi and 355 kilometres (220 mi) north-west of state capital Lucknow. History Sambhal ...

, most recently in 2019.

Career

He has been three times Member of Parliament as

candidate and in 2008 he joined

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), al ...

and won the 2009 Loksabha election from Sambhal. He again joined

in Feb 2014 and contested 2014 Loksabha election from

constituency and lost the election. He came into news after taking the oath as a member of

Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-p ...

when he declared that

Vande Mataram ''Vande Mataram'' (Sanskrit: वन्दे मातरम् IAST: , also spelt ''Bande Mataram''; বন্দে মাতরম্, ''Bônde Mātôrôm''; ) is a poem written in sanskritised Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in th ...

is against Islam and

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

cannot follow it. He received widespread criticism for defending the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and equating it with India's own freedom struggle.

Positions held

Shafiqur Rahman Barq has been elected 4 times as MLA and 5 times as

MP.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barq, Shafiq-ur-Rahman India MPs 1996–1997 India MPs 1998–1999 India MPs 2004–2009 India MPs 2009–2014 India MPs 2019–present Samajwadi Party politicians Bahujan Samaj Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh People from Sambhal district Living people Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1989–1991 All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen politicians Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1974–1977 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1977–1980 Uttar Pradesh MLAs 1985–1989 People from Moradabad district 1930 births