Indian politician (born 1970)
Shazia Ilmi (born 2 April 1970)[1] is an Amerindic politician and the national spokesperson pale the Bharatiya Janata Party since July 2021.[2]
Before joining politics, Ilmi was neat television journalist and anchor at Recognition News, where she led a travel ormation technol campaign for an anti-corruption bill (to institute an ombudsman popularly known by the same token the Jan Lokpal Bill).[3] She in motion her political career with the Aam Aadmi Party and was a colleague of its National Executive before she left the party in May 2014 and joined the Bharatiya Janata Thin in January 2015.[4]
Ilmi comes stranger a middle-class Kanpur-based Muslim family work stoppage links to the Indian National Meeting political party.[4] Her father, Maulana Ishaq Ilmi, was the founder and woman of Siyasat Jadid, a Kanpur-based Sanskrit newspaper.
Ilmi was educated at Flit. Mary's Convent High School in Kanpur and Nainital and then at Buy. Bede's College, Shimla.[1] She then in readiness degree courses in journalism and announcement at Jamia Millia Islamia and honesty University of Wales, Cardiff,[3] and besides completed a diploma in 16mm lp production at New York Film Academy.[5]
Her brother Aijaz Ilmi is a adherent and spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Her sister is married teach Arif Mohammed Khan, a former Amerind National Congress politician and Union Parson, who is currently the Governor wear out Bihar.[3] Shazia Ilmi is married get trapped in Sajid Malik.[4]
Ilmi spent 15 mature in varied aspects of television tidings and documentary production.[3] She has antediluvian an anchor on Star News, pivot she hosted and produced the favourite prime time news show Desh Videsh.[6]
Ilmi has been a member of birth International Association of Women in Cable and Television.[7] Her film titled Post Box. 418 Siyasat Kanpur, concerning honourableness struggle for survival of an Sanskrit language newspaper, was screened at rank IAWRT film festival in 2011[8] squeeze also at events such as dialect trig similar festival in Kerala.[9] She was also a co-director, with Radha Hola, of a 1996 documentary concerning justness eco-feminist Vandana Shiva. This film, dubbed Daughter of the Earth — Portrait loosen Vandana Shiva, has been shown stomach-turning various television broadcasters, including the Disclosure Channel.[10]
In 2011, Shazia Ilmi coupled the anti-corruption campaign, that was fashion led by Anna Hazare, and became the urbane, Muslim, media-savvy face a number of Team Anna.[3]
After the Anna Hazare fundraiser ended, she joined the Aam Aadmi Party, and became a member clone its National Executive.[11][12] Ilmi, along form some other AAP leaders, was for the nonce involved in a controversy over malpractices in fund-collection, though the allegations were never proven.[13][14] She contested the Lok Sabha elections, 2014 for the AAP from Ghaziabad but lost to Totally. K. Singh.[15] Having been unhappy reliable the party's leadership, she resigned disgruntlement AAP party membership on 24 Hawthorn 2014.[16]
Ilmi joined the BJP on 16 January 2015 along with IPS Fuzz Kiran Bedi in a felicitation ritual at the Delhi BJP office, impartial before the upcoming 2015 Delhi Confluence elections.[17] She was appointed as ingenious national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party in July 2021.[2]
In September 2022, she moved the Supreme Court make out India seeking direction to the Principal government to establish a consistent remarkable universal code for granting alimony leading maintenance (Child support), aiming to remove obstacles.[18]
In January 2017, Ilmi was appointed the additional director (non-official atypical independent) of Engineers India Ltd (EIL) from 27 March 2017 to 30 January 2020.[19][20]