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He was first elected as MP in the 2008 general election for the federal seat of Pontian, previously held by Hasni Mohammad of UMNO. [4] In April 2009 he was appointed as a Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department. [5] After successfully defended his seat in 2013 general election, he was appointed as the Deputy Finance Minister. [6]
Asyraf is currently the Secretary-General of UMNO where he was directly appointed by the current President of UMNO, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Asyraf is known notably in UMNO as a Zahid loyalist as he has been given several government-linked and senior party level appointments despite consistently losing elections.
UMNO Secretary-General Syed Jaafar Albar travelled to Singapore to address the Malay populace. At one rally, he called the PAP Malay politicians un-Islamic and traitors to the Malay race, greatly straining PAP-UMNO relations .
On 14 January 2023, the UMNO general assembly has given consent to a motion for the posts of president and deputy president not to be contested at the coming party polls. Therefore, President of UMNO, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Deputy President of UMNO, Mohamad Hasan will remain at their position respectively for another term until 2026. [2]
The Johor State Executive Council is the executive authority of the Government of Johor, Malaysia.The Council comprises the Menteri Besar, appointed by the Sultan on the basis that he is able to command a majority in the Johor State Legislative Assembly, a number of members made up of members of the Assembly, the State Secretary, the State Legal Adviser and the State Financial Officer.
He is a member and the Division Chief of Putrajaya of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), a component party of the BN coalition. He has served as the Treasurer-General of UMNO since June 2018. He also served as Secretary-General of UMNO from March 2009 to June 2018.
The inaugural secretariat meeting was held at the headquarters of UMNO and attended by Prime Minister, Chairman of the Pakatan Harapan (PH) and President of the People's Justice Party (PKR) Anwar Ibrahim, Minister of Transport, Deputy President of PH and Secretary-General of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) Anthony Loke Siew Fook and among others.
Aliasgar became one of the 20 Pro tem committee members (Malay:AJK Penaja) of the newly formed UMNO Sabah in 1991. He was also the UMNO Tuaran Division committee member (Malay: AJK Bahagian) and appointed as the UMNO Tuaran Division Youth Secretary (Malay:Setiausaha Pemuda Bahagian).