NEW DELHI: Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi may have ruled on the Samajwadi Party symbol and settled the high-stakes matter in the bitter family feud but the commission is sure to stay focused on Uttar Pradesh in the coming weeks as India’s most populous state goes to the polls.
For the election watchdog under Zaidi, who completes his term as CEC in July, this comes at a time when the man at the helm hails from Uttar Pradesh, was brought up there and worked in the state for most parts of his career as a civil servant. Born to a police inspector in UP police in Muzaffarnagar district, Zaidi and his siblings including the older Qamar Ahmad, an IPS officer, and his sisters moved to Dehradun where they were educated.
A doctorate in biochemistry with several research papers to his credit, Zaidi went on to crack the IAS in 1976 – a career he was motivated to take up by his brother Qamar Ahmad, who retired as special commissioner of police in Delhi and later headed Delhi’s Minorities Commission.
The UP cadre, Hindi speaking, said to be vegetarian bureaucrat, has left his mark on aviation in India, steering the country through tough public-private partnership negotiations to create shimmering new airports at Hyderabad, Delhi and Bengaluru but Zaidi has served in equally significant but less talked of times in his career in his native Uttar Pradesh.
Source:-Timesofindia
For the election watchdog under Zaidi, who completes his term as CEC in July, this comes at a time when the man at the helm hails from Uttar Pradesh, was brought up there and worked in the state for most parts of his career as a civil servant. Born to a police inspector in UP police in Muzaffarnagar district, Zaidi and his siblings including the older Qamar Ahmad, an IPS officer, and his sisters moved to Dehradun where they were educated.
A doctorate in biochemistry with several research papers to his credit, Zaidi went on to crack the IAS in 1976 – a career he was motivated to take up by his brother Qamar Ahmad, who retired as special commissioner of police in Delhi and later headed Delhi’s Minorities Commission.
The UP cadre, Hindi speaking, said to be vegetarian bureaucrat, has left his mark on aviation in India, steering the country through tough public-private partnership negotiations to create shimmering new airports at Hyderabad, Delhi and Bengaluru but Zaidi has served in equally significant but less talked of times in his career in his native Uttar Pradesh.
Source:-Timesofindia
