Begum Tabassum Hasan

{{short description|Indian politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Begum Tabassum Hasan

| image =

| office = Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha

| constituency = Kairana

| term_start1 = 2009

| term_end1 = 2014

| predecessor1 = Anuradha Choudhary

| constituency1 = Kairana

| successor1 = Hukum Singh

| term_start = 31 May 2018

| term_end = 23 May 2019

| predecessor = Hukum Singh

| successor = Pradeep Choudhary

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|12|25|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Dumjhera, Saharanpur

| party = Samajwadi Party

| spouse = Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan

| children = Nahid Hasan and Iqra Choudhary

| website = https://instagram.com/chaudharyhasan.786/

| footnotes =

| residence = Arya Puri Dehat-3, Kairana, Muzaffar Nagar, Uttar Pradesh

| year =

| source = https://sansad.in/ls/members/biographyM/4261?from=members

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Begum Tabassum Hasan (born 1970) is a Samajwadi Party political activist, former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from the Kairana Lok Sabha Constituency in Uttar Pradesh, and wife of former MP late Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan.{{cite web|url=http://164.100.47.194/Loksabha/Members/MemberBioprofile.aspx?mpsno=4261&lastls=15 |title=Members : Lok Sabha |publisher=164.100.47.194 |date= |accessdate=2017-06-25}} She has been with Bahujan Samaj Party, Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal, and Samajwadi Party.

Life

Begum husband Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan was elected to Lok Sabha in 2004 but died in an accident in 2008. She was first elected to Lok Sabha in 2009 as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate. She won By-Election from Kairana Lok Sabha seat in 2018 after seat vacated due to death of sitting MP Hukum Singh.{{cite web|author=Nishtha Gupta |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/meet-begum-tabassum-hasan-who-sailed-rld-boat-against-modi-wave-in-kairana-1246791-2018-05-31 |title=Meet Begum Tabassum Hasan, who sailed RLD boat against Modi wave in Kairana - India News |publisher=Indiatoday.in |date=2018-05-31 |accessdate=2018-06-08}}{{cite web

| title = "DNA of families"

| publisher =

|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-up-elections-2017-friends-and-foes-kairana-divided-between-two-families-2311601}}

Political career

She was first elected to Lok Sabha in 2009 as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate from Kairana. Her son Nahid Hasan lost 2014 Lok Sabha poll from Kairana as a Samajwadi Party candidate. In the 2018 bypoll for Kairana, she won by a margin of nearly 50,000 votes as a Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate supported by a "grand coalition" of Indian National Congress, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party.{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/rld-wins-ups-kairana-lok-sabha-seat-by-over-50000-votes/article24049333.ece |title=RLD wins U.P.’s Kairana Lok Sabha seat by over 50,000 votes |publisher=The Hindu |date=2018-05-31 |accessdate=2018-06-08}}{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/how-strategy-of-opposition-unity-ensured-bjp-s-defeat-in-kairana-lok-sabha-bypoll/story-j7DgmGSAp2fRUxJvF04spM.html |title=Kairana bypoll result: How strategy of ‘Opposition unity’ ensured BJP’s defeat | india news |publisher=Hindustan Times |date=2016-04-22 |accessdate=2018-06-08}} However, she joined Samajwadi Party and lost the Kairana seat, a year later, to BJP's Pradeep Choudhary, by a margin of over 90,000 votes, in 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.

Positions held

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Year

! Description

2009

| Elected to 15th Lok Sabha

31 Aug. 2009

|

15 Oct. 2009

|

  • Member, Committee on Food Management in Parliament House Complex
  • Member, U.P. Sunni Central Waqf Board
2017 - 31 May 2018

| Member, Zila Panchayat, Shamli

31 May 2018 - 23 May 2019

| Elected to 16th Lok Sabha in a by-election (2nd Term)

  • Member, Standing Committee on Human Resource Development

References

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{{s-bef|before=Anuradha Choudhary}}

{{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament
for Kairana |years=2009 – 2014}}

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{{s-bef|before=Hukum Singh}}

{{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament
for Kairana |years=2018 – 2019}}

{{s-aft|after=Pradeep Choudhary}}

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