Chowdhury Abu Taleb

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Chowdhury Abu Taleb (dead 1971) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Fifth Lok Sabha from the Murshidabad seat in the 1971 Indian general election. An Indian Union Muslim League leader, he stood as an independent. He obtained 93,716 votes (34.38% of the votes in the constituency).Election Commission of India. [http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1971 TO THE FIFTH LOK SABHA - VOLUME I (NATIONAL AND STATE ABSTRACTS & DETAILED RESULTS)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718175452/http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1971/Vol_I_LS71.pdf |date=18 July 2014 }}Indian Union Muslim League. [http://indianunionmuslimleague.in/iuml-mps-since-beginning IUML MPs Since Beginning] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224175925/http://indianunionmuslimleague.in/iuml-mps-since-beginning |date=24 December 2013 }}{{cite book|title=Party Life, Vol. 25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AtcsAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Communist Party of India|page=8}} He died in 1971, some two months after becoming a parliamentarian.{{cite book|author1=India. Parliament. House of the People|author2=India. Parliament. Lok Sabha|title=Lok Sabha Debates|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zlvVAAAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=Lok Sabha Secretariat|page=7}}