Delhi: Senior Journalist MJ Akbar joins BJP pic.twitter.com/PJldmGFSZg
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M.J. Akbar & Politics:Leading Indian journalist and author M.J. Akbar in 1989, took a brief detour into politics with his election to the Indian Parliament in November 1989 from Kishanganj in Bihar on a Congress(I) ticket. He lost the seat in the 1991 Lok Sabha elections.He served as late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's official spokesman.
In 1991, Akbar joined the Government as an advisor in the Ministry of Human Resources, and helped policy planning in key areas of education, the National Literacy Mission and in the protection of heritage. He resigning from the post and quit politics in December 1992 and returned to journalism and full-time writing. In 1993.