The Muslim-majority Malda district in northern Bengal was as soon as the seat of the state’s parliament. That is the house base of Rajya Sabha MP Mausam Noor, who began her political profession with the grand outdated celebration in 2008.
Noor, 46, returned to Congress on Saturday, seven years after quitting the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Her “return” to the Congress simply three months earlier than the state meeting elections not solely comes at an important time for the declining celebration, but in addition brings with it Noor’s household’s outstanding political legacy and long-standing ties with the Congress, significantly within the Malda area.
Mausam Noor’s mom Rubi Noor was a four-time Congress MLA from Sujapur seat in Malda. Her uncle, Abu Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Chaudhry, popularly referred to as Barkat Da, was an eight-time member of parliament from Malda and served as Union Minister within the governments of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi.
With Maussam Noor again in Parliament, the celebration will look to regain its place within the Malda area. In Malda area, the TMC’s electoral efficiency was outstanding regardless of its state-wide dominance and the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration as the primary opposition celebration.
Accompanied by her cousin and Malda South MP Isha Khan Chaudhry, Noor was formally re-elected to the Congress on the All India Congress Committee (AICC) headquarters in Delhi, the place she stated: “We have now determined to strengthen the custom of Barkat Saheb. That’s doable solely by remaining within the Congress.”
How Congress Can Profit
Commenting on her return to the celebration, a Congress chief stated, “Congress used to have a robust foothold in Muslim-majority districts of Malda and Murshidabad, which it misplaced after the 2021 meeting elections. At the moment, minorities in Malda and Murshidabad will not be proud of the TMC because of the Wakf Act and plenty of different points. (Noor’s return) will give momentum to the Congress in these two constituencies.”
The 2019 Lok Sabha elections marked the primary time that the Congress didn’t win each seats in Malda district. Within the 2016 meeting polls, the Congress had received 8 out of 13 seats in Malda, however the 2021 polls confirmed a clean not solely within the area but in addition in the whole state. Nevertheless, Isha Khan Chaudhry’s victory from Malda South within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls was a lift for the Congress.
In accordance with Congress sources, Noor can be thrown into the meeting election marketing campaign as one of many essential faces of the celebration and is prone to contest from the Sujapur seat. Her time period in Rajya Sabha is scheduled to finish in April 2026.
“There’s a lack of massive faces, particularly girls, throughout the state. There isn’t a doubt that (former MP) Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is an enormous chief, however he’s very Murshidabad-centric. In that sense, Mausam Benazir Noor might emerge as the feminine face of the state meeting,” stated a Congress supply.
“We do not know whether or not the Congress will kind an alliance with the Left on this ballot or not. However Mausam will strengthen the precept that the one enemy of the Congress is the Bharatiya Janata Celebration. This may increasingly change the alliance situation within the meeting elections,” stated one other Congress chief.
Mausam Noor’s Journey
Earlier than getting into politics, Noor studied in Kolkata and earned a legislation diploma from Calcutta College in 2005. She grew to become lively in politics after the loss of life of her mom Rubi, who was then Sujapur MLA, in 2008.
Noor made her electoral debut as a Congress candidate within the 2009 Sujapur by-poll and was elected. She then received the Malda North seat on a celebration ticket within the Lok Sabha elections that yr.
In 2011, Noor was appointed because the president of the West Bengal Youth Congress. Two years later, she was appointed Malda district president of the Congress. In 2014 she was re-elected to Parliament from her seat. She was thought of a part of a staff of younger Congress leaders near Rahul Gandhi.
Forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Noor resigned from the Congress after his proposal for an alliance with the TMC was rejected by the celebration management. She then joined the TMC and contested the Malda North Lok Sabha seat on its ticket, however misplaced to the BJP’s Khagen Murmu, which she had defeated in 2009 and 2014. In 2020, TMC nominated her to Rajya Sabha.
