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| office = [[Shahi Imam]]<br>[[Jama Masjid, Delhi]]<br />
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| predecessor = [[Abdullah Bukhari]]<br />
| successor = [[Shaban Bukhari]]<br />
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'''Ahmed Bukhari''' is the 13th [[Shahi Imam]] of the [[Jama Masjid, Delhi]].<ref name=TOI>{{cite web|title=Eyebrows raised as Bukhari invites Sharif, snubs Modi|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Eyebrows-raised-as-Bukhari-invites-Sharif-snubs-Modi/articleshow/44988724.cms}}</ref><br />
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==Ancestry and appointment==<br />
'''Ahmed Bukhari''' succeeded his father, [[Abdullah Bukhari]], on 14 October 2000 as Shahi Imam of the [[Jama Masjid, Delhi|Jama Masjid]] in [[Delhi]].<ref name=milli>[http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/1-11-2000/Art6.htm Jama Masjid gets new Shahi imam on 14 October 2000], The Milli Gazette newspaper, Published 1 November 2000, Retrieved 18 May 2017</ref> On 22 November 2014, his son, [[Shaban Bukhari]], was formally designated to be the next Shahi Imam.<ref name=TheHindu>[http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/Former-Shahi-Imam-of-Jama-Masjid-passes-away/article16551942.ece Syed Abdullah Bukhari, former Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid, Delhi passes away] The Hindu newspaper, Published 9 July 2009, Retrieved 18 May 2017</ref><br />
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==Position on Modi==<br />
In 2014, in an interview with ''[[The Times of India]]'', on being asked on his decision of inviting Pak PM [[Nawaz Sharif]] and ignoring Indian PM Narendra Modi, on the anointment ceremony of the naib imam or the imam's deputy, Ahmed Bukhari defended his position saying, "Modi claims to be the Prime Minister of 125 crore Indians but conveniently and deliberately avoids addressing Muslims. He has shown he doesn't like us. He is the one who has been maintaining distance from the community. So, I too chose to maintain my distance."<ref name=TOI/> <br />
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Though other Muslim leaders like Kamal Farooqi said that such acts gave the entire Muslim community a bad name and stressed that Bukhari didn’t represent Indian Muslims. <ref>{{Cite web|last1=Oct 31|first1=TNN / Updated|last2=2014|last3=Ist|first3=03:12|title=Eyebrows raised as Bukhari invites Sharif, snubs Modi {{!}} India News - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/eyebrows-raised-as-bukhari-invites-sharif-snubs-modi/articleshow/44988724.cms|access-date=2021-07-17|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Controversy==<br />
A criminal case was lodged against him along with Habib-ur-Rehman and Nafisa in 2001, after an incident on 3 September 2001, when a mob, led by Bukhari assaulted on-duty police and civic agencies officials trying to remove encroachments from near CGO Complex in Lodhi Colony.<ref name=TheIndianExpress>{{cite web|last=Anand|first=Utkarsh|title=Warrant for Maulana Syed Ahmed Bukhari, cops ordered to execute it|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/news/warrant-for-maulana-syed-ahmed-bukhari-cops-ordered-to-execute-it/970017/|work=[[The Indian Express]]|date=4 July 2012}}</ref> Warrants against Bukhari for this case have been issued repeatedly by the Delhi court. Delhi Police has been unable to arrest him because of communal tension for the past ten years.<ref name=TheIndianExpress/><br />
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