Asim Ahmed Khan

Asim Ahmed Khan is an Indian politician (Delhi State), and former minister of Food and Civil Supply, Environment and Forest, Minority Affairs and Election in the Delhi government. He was a member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and represented Matia Mahal (Assembly constituency) in the 6th Delhi Assembly.

He left the AAP on 23 December 2024 and joined the Indian National Congress.

Early life and education Asim Ahmed Khan was born in Delhi. He attended the Chaudhary Charan Singh University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Khan contested Matia Mahal (Assembly constituency) in the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections as an AAP candidate. He raised issues of education and health in his campaign. 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 (United) (JD(U)) ticket. The Economic Times described Khan as "key" to AAP, which won 80% of the Muslim vote.

Khan was sworn in as a cabinet minister under the chief minister Arvind 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. He was accused of 'cutting a deal worth Rs. 6 lakh' with a local builder'. He was later given a clean chit by CBI due to lack of evidence.