Career
Asifa Khan hails from Bharuch district, Gujarat, to which Congress leader Ahmed Patel also belongs.She is a postgraduate in English literature. She is a mother of two children.She lives with her family near Darul Uloom Kantharia, Gujarat’s biggest Islamic seminary, on the outskirts of Bharuch. She later got a job with Bank of Baroda there after clearing bank recruitment exams,but quit it after some time.
Asifa had worked as a journalist for 17 years in both print and electronic media.She had worked as stringer with two of Gujarat"s leading English newspapers,a local Gujarati newspaper Sandesh and briefly for Zee News as well.
Asifa plunged into journalism leaving her studies midway. She was doing her Master of Arts in English at that time.
Asifa was offered the membership of Censor Board in 2005 when Sharmila Tagore was the chairperson by Congress leader Ahmed Patel, but that did not materialise. She joined the BJP in October 2012 just three months before Gujarat elections,after she met Narendra Modi.
She was impressed by Sakhi mandals,initiated by Narendra Modi.
She rapidly moved up from the BJP’s national minority morcha to its media committee. She is also in the national executive of the BJP Minority Morcha.