Moinuddin Shams was an Indian advocate and politician belonging to the
Trinamool Congress
The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the Federated state, state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a Lis ...
. He served as an MLA in the
West Bengal Legislative Assembly
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.
Early life
Shams was born in 1967 to a
Bihari Muslim family in
Birbhum district
Birbhum district () is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the northernmost district of Burdwan division—one of the five administrative divisions of West Bengal. The district headquarters is in Suri. Other impo ...
,
West Bengal
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. His father,
Kalimuddin Shams, was a former MLA of Nalhati, and his grandfather Haji Mojibur Rahman was originally from Simra in
Gaya district
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Gaya district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar. It was officially established on 3 October 1865. The district has a common boundary with the state of Jharkhand to the south. Gaya city is both the district he ...
. Shams graduated with a
Master of Arts
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from the
University of Calcutta
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in 1988.
Career
Shams contested in the
2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
Legislative Assembly elections were held in 2016 for 294 seats of the ''Vidhan Sabha'' in the Indian state of West Bengal. The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and thus was re-elected with an enhanced majority. ...
where he ran as a
Trinamool Congress
The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the Federated state, state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a Lis ...
candidate for
Nalhati Assembly constituency, defeating former MLA and Forward Ploc politician
Dipak Chatterjee. He contested in the
2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
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on an independent ticket but was unsuccessful.
References
People from Birbhum district
People from Gaya district
21st-century Indian Muslims
Indian Sunni Muslims
1967 births
Possibly living people
West Bengal MLAs 2016–2021
Independent politicians in India
University of Calcutta alumni
2021 deaths
Trinamool Congress politicians from West Bengal
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