He made the announcement in a post on his verified Facebook page at 11:51 am today.
Asif, previously at the helm of LGRD and sports ministries, handed his resignation from the adviser post to Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus on December 10.
On November 9, Asif registered as a voter under the Dhaka-10 constituency.
Originally from Cumilla, Asif joined the interim government as a student representative on August 8 last year.
He was one of the frontline coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, the platform that led the July mass uprising.
He enrolled in the Linguistics Department of Dhaka University in the 2017-18 academic year and completed his undergraduate degree there.
He was involved in the politics of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad. Later, in 2023, when a faction of the council formed a new student organisation named Gonotantrik Chhatra Shakti, Asif was one of the initiators. He served as the convener of the Dhaka University chapter of that organisation. Most of the frontline leaders of the July uprising came from this group.
