Abayat Ibtiyaz

The Honourable
Abayat Ibtiyaz আবায়ত ইবতিয়াজ अबायत इब्तियाज़
RSP
Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office
In office: 10 July – 21 October 2021 (with Independent Charge from 11 September)
Rashtradhyaksh	Dhrubajyoti Roy
Prime Minister	Ștefan Marius Snagoveanu Farhaz Hazarika
Predecessor	Phillip Joseph Pillin
Successor	Ezri Ambriz
Minister of State for Home Affairs
In office: 18 June – 21 October 2021
Rashtradhyaksh	Dhrubajyoti Roy
Prime Minister	Ștefan Marius Snagoveanu Farhaz Hazarika
Successor	Later held by W. Pranit Singh
Member of the Lok Sabha
Assumed office: 9 November 2022
Predecessor	Matthew Tonna
Constituency	National List (Unopposed)
In office: 18 March – 21 October 2021
Predecessor	Kushal Saha
Constituency	Rashtra Niwas (Unopposed)
Personal Information
Born	1 October 2006 (2006-10-01) Jorhat, Assam, India
Nationality	Indian
Ethnicity	Assamese
Political party	National People's Congress
Relations	Farhaz Hazarika (cousin), Fardeen Hazarika (cousin)
Religion	Islam

Abayat Ibtiyaz (born 1 October 2006) is a Vishwamitran politician who is a member of the 13th and 15th Lok Sabha and a former union minister. He is also a cousin of prime minister Farhaz Hazarika.

Personal life

Abayat Ibtiyaz was born on 1 October 2006 in Jorhat district of the Indian state of Assam as the only child of his parents. He is a maternal cousin of prime minister Farhaz Hazarika and his twin brother Fardeen Hazarika.

Micronational career

Ibtiyaz joined micronationalism at the invitation of his cousin Farhaz Hazarika in January 2021. In March 2021, he contested the bye-election to the Rashtra Niwas constituency of the Lok Sabha as a candidate of the ruling National People's Congress in order to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of then union home minister Farhaz Hazarika who was elected to the house from two constituencies and was constitutionally required to retain only one seat. With the opposition Royalist Party backing out of the election, he was unopposed elected to the 13th Lok Sabha and remained as its member till the dissolution of the parliament in October 2021.

In a reshuffle-cum-expansion of the union council of ministers headed by prime minister Ștefan Marius Snagoveanu on 18 June 2021, he was inducted in the rank of a minister of state. He was assigned the portfolios of Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, Ministry of Planning and Public Administration. On 6 August 2021, he was given the additional charge of the Prime Minister's Office and Ministry of Cabinet Affairs.

He was re-inducted to the union council of ministers when his cousin Farhaz Hazarika became prime minister on 11 September 2021. He was appointed as a Minister of State with independent charge in the Prime Minister's Office and as a Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, and Ministry of Religious and Minority Affairs.

During the general election to the 14th Lok Sabha held in November 2021, he was nominated as a party's candidate from the Dhirenpara constituency in Madhya Prant where he was defected by Su Yi-An, the candidate of the Green Socialist Party and thus became the sole sitting minister to lose the election.

He was elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from the National List constituency of Madhya Prant unopposed and has since then became a member of the Lok Sabha.

Honours

• Recipient of the National Service Medal (15 April 2021)
• Recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the First Anniversary of the Vishwamitran Monarchy (8 June 2021)
• Recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the Crystal Jubilee of the Foundation of Vishwamitra (15 April 2022)
• Recipient of the Commemorative Medal of the 21st Birthday of Rashtradhyaksh Dhrubajyoti Roy (11 January 2023)

Former honours

• Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the Vishwamitra (10 October 2021 – 24 October 2022)
• Companion of the Most Excellent Order of the Vishwamitra (1 August 2021 – 24 October 2022)
• Commander of the Most Illustrious Royal Order of the Crown of Vishwamitra (15 April 2021 – 24 October 2022)