Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali

Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali is an Indian politician and former cabinet minister of Jammu and Kashmir.

[1][2] He is an advocate by profession and was a member of the 11th and 12th Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly from Darhal constituency.

[6][7] Zulfkar was born on 1 January 1970 at Tralla, Rajouri to a bureaucrat turned politician Chowdhary Mohmmad Hussain, who belongs to a feudal Zaildar family of the district Rajouri who was a member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative assembly for 5 terms.

On 5 January 2003, he joined Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party and became the district president, a position he held for a decade.

In the 2014 general election, he had been reelected to the 12th Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly and was inducted as a cabinet minister in the PDP-BJP coalition government and was re-inducted as the cabinet minister Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali is married to Zubeida, daughter of politician Haji Buland Khan who also served as a member of Jammu and Kashmir Legislative assembly and council.