Malda,also known as English Bazar,is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the sixth largest city in West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Malda district as well as of the Malda division of West Bengal. It consists of two municipalities,viz. English Bazar Municipality and Old Malda Municipality,under Malda Metropolitan Area. The city is located on the banks of the Mahananda River. Malda was an undeveloped city which was enlarging from 1925 to 1930. The city is growing rapidly nowadays with its population inching towards half a million.
Abu Barkat Ataur Ghani Khan Choudhury,known as Barkatda to his supporters,was an Indian politician from West Bengal,India. Choudhury was a senior leader of Indian National Congress party.
Malda Lok Sabha constituency was one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. The constituency centred on Malda in West Bengal,which was abolished following the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies in 2008. This seat was a very strong bastion of the Indian National Congress.
English Bazar Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Maldah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Mothabari Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Sujapur Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Kaliachak Assembly constituency was an assembly constituency in Malda district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Mausam Benazir Noor 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 has also served as a Member of Lok Sabha for Maldaha Uttar from 2009 until 2019.
Abu Nasar Khan Choudhury is an Indian politician who was the Minister of State for Science and Technology in the Government of West Bengal. He has served as an MLA,elected from the Sujapur constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.
Sabina Yeasmin is an Indian politician who has been serving as Cabinet Minister of State for Irrigation and Waterways,North Bengal Development in the Government of West Bengal. She is an MLA,elected from the Mothabari in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
According to the 2011 census,West Bengal has over 24.6 million Muslims,making up 27% of the state's population. The vast majority of Muslims in West Bengal are ethnic native Bengali Muslims,numbering around over 22 million and comprising 24.1% of the state population. There also exists an Immigrants Urdu-speaking Muslim community numbering 2.6 million,constituting 2.9% of the state population and mostly resides in Urban areas of the state.
Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury,also known as Dalu,is an Indian politician and former Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare. He has represented the Maldaha Dakshin since 2009. He was first elected M.P from his brother A.B.A. Ghani Khan Choudhury's seat Malda as a member of the Indian National Congress party.
The partial list of political families of West Bengal state of India.
Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury,popularly known as Nirbhaya Didi,is an Indian politician and a member of Bharatiya Janata Party from West Bengal,India. She is also a social worker,women's rights activist and former journalist.
Sailen Sarkar was a Communist Party of India (Marxist) politician,a minister in the state government,five-time legislator and a CPI(M) secretariat member.
Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury is an Indian advocate and politician who is currently serving as the Chairman of English Bazar Municipality. He has served as the Cabinet Minister of Tourism and Minister of Food processing and Horticulture from West Bengal. He was former MLA from English Bazar and State General Secretary of All India Trinamool Congress.
Rubi Noor was an Indian politician and the leader of the Indian National Congress who served as four term MLA from Sujapur. She was younger sister of A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury and mother of Mausam Noor.
Dinesh Chandra Joarder was an Indian politician who was a member of Communist Party of India. He was a member of both Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha.
Sahazalalpur is a village in English Bazar Block of Malda district in the state of West Bengal,India. The village is where Kotwali Bhavan is located.
Muhammad Abdul Ghani is an Indian politician and former jurist from West Bengal who has been serving as a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Sujapur seat since 6 May 2021. A member of Trinamool Congress,he also served the same post from Jagatballavpur seat from 2016 until 2021. Before that,he served as judge of Calcutta High Court from 2009 until 2012.
