Asim Ahmed Khan is an Indian politician, who was the minister of Food and Civil Supply, Environment and Forest, Minority Affairs and Election in the Delhi government. He is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party and represents Matia Mahal in the Sixth Legislative Assembly of Delhi. In 2015, Delhi's /article7743224.ece
Asim Ahmed Khan is a member of the minority wing of the Aam Aadmi Party. He contested the Municipal Corporation of Delhielections in 2012 and received 6,300 votes. The AAP party website states that he has worked for 12 years in Old Delhi area and participated in numerous social activities. Khan contested Matia Mahal in the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections as an AAP candidate. He raised issues of education and health in his campaign. Khan won the seat with 47,584 votes. He defeated five-time MLA Shoaib Iqbal by a margin of 26,096 votes. Khan was "the less acknowledged 'giant killers'". Khan - who had a "poor experience in politics" - was expected to lose Iqbal, who won five times despite switching political parties four times. Iqbal had won the 2013 elections on a Janata Dal ticket. The AAP won 67 of the total 70 seats in the Delhi assembly. Khan is one of four Muslim MLAs of the AAP. The Economic Times described Khan as "key" to AAP, which won 80% of the Muslim vote. Khan and the AAP's minority wing were responsible for deflecting the Muslim votes - who traditionally voted for the Congress - to the AAP, which led to the AAP's decisive victory. Khan was sworn as a cabinet minister under the chief ministerArvind Kejriwal on 14 February 2015. He was put in charge of the Food and Civil Supply, Environment and Forest, Minority Affairs and Election ministries. On 9 October 2015, Delhi's Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sacked the cabinet minister Asim Ahmed Khan on charges of corruption. On 15 January 2017, five minors attempted to break into Khan's home at Hindi Park in Delhi, breaking Khan's rear-view car mirror in the process, and started a brawl with security guards present at the residence. One of the minors was held by the guards while the other four escaped.
Alleged threats from Arvind Kejriwal
Khan alleged that he and his family are facing "death threats" from Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and some of his partymen. "For 9-10 months I have been facing death threats and even my family is at risk. Kejriwal and some of his partymen are hatching a conspiracy to get me killed," Khan alleged at a press conference.
