Milton Rashid
{{Short description|West Bengal politician}}{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}{{Use Indian English|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Milton Rashid
| office = Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
| term_start = 2016
| term_end = 2021
| predecessor = Asit Kumar Mal
| successor = Asok Kumar Chattopadhyay
| constituency = Hansan
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1975}}
| birth_place =Margram, Birbhum district, West Bengal
| death_place =
| death_date =
| party = Indian National Congress
| alma_mater = Rabindra Bharati University
| relatives =
| education =
}}
Milton Rashid (born 1975) is an Indian National Congress politician and was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 2016 to 2021, elected from Hansan Assembly constituency.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/bengal/congress-and-aisf-announce-first-list-of-ls-candidates-1503282754.html|title=Congress and AISF announce first list of LS candidates|website=The Statesman |date=March 23, 2024}} He was appointed the Birbhum district Congress president in 2020.{{cite web | last=সংবাদদাতা | first=নিজস্ব | title=জেলায় কংগ্রেসের নতুন সভাপতি মিল্টন রশিদ | website=Anandabazar | date=13 October 2020 | url=https://www.anandabazar.com/west-bengal/purulia-birbhum-bankura/milton-rashid-is-the-new-president-of-the-congress-in-birbhum-1.1214714 | language=bn | access-date=28 March 2024}}
Early life and family
Rashid was born in 1975 to a Bengali Muslim family in Birbhum district of West Bengal. He is the son of Abdur Rashid. Rashid is an advocate, having graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from TNB College in 2004 and Master of Arts degree in Environmental Science from the Rabindra Bharati University in 2013.{{cite web|website=My Neta|title=Milton Rashid (INC)|access-date=3 July 2023|url=https://www.myneta.info/LokSabha2024/candidate.php?candidate_id=5186}}{{cite web|website=My Neta|title=Miltan Rasid (INC)|access-date=3 July 2023|url=https://www.myneta.info/WestBengal2021/candidate.php?candidate_id=2094}}
Career
Rashid is a former president of the West Bengal State Congress “Minority Cell”, former district president of “INTUC” Birbhum, and a former General Secretary of the Students' Union at Rampurhat College. He contested in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election where he ran as an Indian National Congress candidate for Hansan Assembly constituency, defeating former MLA Asit Kumar Mal.{{cite web|url=https://www.latestly.com/elections/assembly-elections/west-bengal/2016/hansan/|title=Hansan, 2016|website=Latestly|access-date=3 July 2023}} He contested again in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election but was unsuccessful.{{cite web|url=https://www.latestly.com/elections/assembly-elections/west-bengal/2021/hansan/|title=Hansan, 2021|website=Latestly|access-date=3 July 2023}} Rashid also contested in the 2024 Indian general election but was unsuccessful.