Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and former Indian federal minister. He was born in Allahabad on October 15, 1957He was jailed for activism during the Emergency of 1975–77.he is first bid at elected office was in 1980, when he ran for the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly seat for the Allahabad West constituency representing the Janata Party. In 1998 he was appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and was also given responsibility over the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.He has been member of many parliamentary and other committees: