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Mausam Benazir Noor (born 15 October 1979) is an Indian politician serving as
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from
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and Vice Chairperson of West Bengal Commission for Women. She was
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of
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and a Member of Lok Sabha for Maldaha Uttar from
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until
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. Noor comes from a political
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family of Malda, West Bengal. Her uncle A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury was
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in the
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. She studied at
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and received a law degree from
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. After her mother
Rubi Noor Rubi Noor (12 August 1945 – 10 July 2008) was an Indian politician and the leader of the Indian National Congress who served as four term MLA from Sujapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). She was younger sister of A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury ...
(the then incumbent
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of West Bengal for Sujapur constituency) died in 2008 Mausam entered politics. In early 2009, she was elected to the Legislative Assembly from the same constituency and in May she was elected to the ''Lok Sabha''. Noor was elected president of the West Bengal Youth Congress in 2011. Two years later, she was elected president of the Congress party's Malda district unit. In January 2019, she switched to
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party after her proposal of an electoral alliance with the party for the 2019 general election was turned down by the
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.


Early and personal life

Noor belongs to a political
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family from the
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. Her mother,
Rubi Noor Rubi Noor (12 August 1945 – 10 July 2008) was an Indian politician and the leader of the Indian National Congress who served as four term MLA from Sujapur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). She was younger sister of A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury ...
, was elected to the
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for three consecutive terms from the Sujapur constituency. Rubi was married to her classmate and Mausam's father Syed Noor. She accompanied her husband to Canada before entering politics in 1991. Mausam has two elder sisters — Syeda Saleha Noor and Sonya Sarah Noor. One of Noor's uncles, A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury, served as
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in the
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. Her other uncle,
Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury (born 12 January 1938), also known as Dalu, is an Indian politician and former Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. He has represented the Maldaha Dakshin (Lok Sabha constituency) since 2009. He was ...
, is serving as a Member of Parliament for the Maldaha Dakshin constituency. Abu Hasem's son, Isha Khan Choudhury, is a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and represents the Sujapur constituency. Noor studied at
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and received a law degree from the
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. She worked at the
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Fox and Mandal and practised as a full-time lawyer in the
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for two years before entering politics. She married her long-time boyfriend Mirza Kayesh Begg of
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on 5 December 2009. She met him in 2004 while studying law at Calcutta University.


Political career


Indian National Congress

On 10 July 2008, the Sujapur constituency fell vacant due to the death of Noor's mother, sitting
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Rubi Noor. Subsequently, the
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party announced that Mausam would contest for the upcoming
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from the constituency. She won the election and defeated her nearest rival, Haji Ketabuddin of the
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by a margin of 21,205 votes. On 20 May 2009, Noor was elected to the
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, representing the Maldaha Uttar constituency. She became one of the five youngest members and the youngest Muslim woman to be elected to the
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. On 31 August, she became a member of the
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on Labour. On 23 September, she became a member of the Standing Committee on Empowerement of Women and a member of Consultative Committee of
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. In March 2011, Noor was elected president of the West Bengal Youth Congress. She was supported by the
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general-secretary
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and defeated Arindam Bhattacharya. In December 2013, she succeeded her uncle Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury as the party president for the Malda district. During Noor's first term as an MP, of road was built in her constituency under the
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. Also, under the
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(
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Village Electrification Scheme), 1.33 billion was sanctioned for her constituency. Moreover, 850 million was sanctioned for the National Highway 81 (running from Gazole to
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), 290 million for Ratua-Nakatti Bridge, 330 million under
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to review erosion caused by the
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and 320 million for a Samsi railway overbridge. However, she alleged that these projects could not be implemented as the
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refused to co-operate. In March 2014, the Congress party announced that Noor would participate from her own constituency for the upcoming
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. She was re-elected after defeating Khagen Murmu of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) by a margin of 65,705 votes. She was polled 388,000 votes. From 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2015, she served as a member of Committee on Papers Laid on the Table and Standing Committee on Rural Development. On 1 September 2014, she also became a member of Consultative Committee,
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. Although Malda has been a bastion of the Congress party, they lost a large number of Zilla Parishad elections and
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elections to the ruling
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with
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making inroads in the region. To make amends, Noor started organizing rallies and visiting villages.


Trinamool Congress

Noor left the Congress party and joined the Trinamool Congress on 28 January 2019 after her proposal to form an electoral alliance with the ruling
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was turned down by the Pradesh Congress Committee. Subsequently, Noor was elevated to the post of the General-Secretary of the party. The party also announced that she would contest from her own constituency (Maldaha Uttar) in the upcoming 2019 general election. She also became the party in-charge for the
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,
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and Malda districts. On 30 January, she organized a rally at Malda in which had fourteen '' panchayat'' members and one councillor of
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switch to Trinamool. In the election, Noor lost to Khagen Murmu of
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, her nearest rival by a margin of 84,288 votes. She was polled 425,236 votes. Subsequently, the party made her the party president of the
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unit on 26 May. In the
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election 2020, Noor was nominated for
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election from
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by the Chief Minister of West Bengal
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.


Views

Noor favoured an electoral alliance between the West Bengal Pradesh Congress and the Trinamool Congress to fight against Bharatiya Janata Party. However, the Pradesh Congress chief Somen Mitra rejected the proposal as they were keen to form an alliance with the Communist Party. In August 2018, she wrote letters to both the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Trinamool Congress, requesting them to support her party's '' panchayat'' members to form ''panchayat'' governments in villages where Congress party had a simple majority. In return, she promised that her party would also support these two parties to form ''panchayat'' government in villages where they had a simple majority. She said that she wanted to prevent Bharatiya Janata Party, to form ''panchayat'' governments in villages.


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