Mausam Noor

Mausam Benazir Noor (Bengali: মৌসম বেনজির নূর; born 15 October 1979) is an Indian politician serving as Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha from West Bengal and Vice Chairperson of West Bengal Commission for Women.

She has served as President of Malda district TMC.

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 Minister of Railways in the Third Indira Gandhi ministry.

Her other uncle, Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury, 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 La Martiniere Calcutta and received a law degree from the Calcutta University.

She worked at the legal firm Fox and Mandal and practised as a full-time lawyer in the Supreme Court of India for two years before entering politics.

She met him in 2004 while studying law at Calcutta University.

After her mother Rubi Noor (the then incumbent Member of Legislative Assembly of West Bengal for Sujapur constituency) had died in 2008, Mausam entered politics.

On 10 July 2008, the Sujapur constituency fell vacant due to the death of Noor's mother, sitting Member of Legislative Assembly Rubi Noor.

Subsequently, the Indian National Congress party announced that Mausam would contest for the upcoming by-election from the constituency.

She won the election and defeated her nearest rival, Haji Ketabuddin of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) by a margin of 21,205 votes.

She has also served as a Member of Lok Sabha for Maldaha Uttar from 2009 until 2019.

Noor hails from a political Bengali Muslim family of Malda, West Bengal.

Her uncle A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury has served as Minister of Railways in the Third Indira Gandhi Ministry.

She studied at La Martiniere Calcutta and received a law degree from Calcutta University.

In early 2009, she was elected to the Legislative Assembly from the same constituency and in May she was elected to the Lok Sabha.

She married her long-time boyfriend Mirza Kayesh Begg of Asansol on 5 December 2009.

On 20 May 2009, Noor was elected to the Lok Sabha, representing the Maldaha Uttar constituency.

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 March 2011, Noor was elected president of the West Bengal Youth Congress.

She was supported by the Indian Youth Congress general-secretary Rahul Gandhi 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, 1500 km of road was built in her constituency under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.

Also, under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (Rajiv Gandhi 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 Harishchandrapur), ₹290 million for Ratua-Nakatti Bridge, ₹330 million under Backward Regions Grant Fund to review erosion caused by the Mahananda River and ₹320 million for a Samsi railway overbridge.

However, she alleged that these projects could not be implemented as the state government refused to co-operate.

In March 2014, the Congress party announced that Noor would participate from her own constituency for the upcoming general election.

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.

She became one of the five youngest members and the youngest Muslim woman to be elected to the 15th Lok Sabha.

On 31 August, she became a member of the Standing Committee on Labour.

On 23 September, she became a member of the Standing Committee on Empowerement of Women and a member of Consultative Committee of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports.

In January 2019, she switched to Trinamool Congress party after her proposal of an electoral alliance with the party for the 2019 general election was turned down by the Pradesh Congress Committee.

Noor belongs to a political Bengali Muslim family from the Malda district.

Her mother, Rubi Noor, was elected to the West Bengal Legislative Assembly for three consecutive terms from the Sujapur constituency.

Rubi was married to her classmate and Mausam's father Syed Noor.