Moinuddin Shams

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Moinuddin Shams
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office
2016–2021
Alma mater University of Calcutta

Moinuddin Shams was an Indian advocate and politician belonging to the Trinamool Congress. He served as an MLA in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. [1]

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Early life

Shams was born in 1967 to a Bihari Muslim family in Birbhum district, West Bengal. His father, Kalimuddin Shams, was a former MLA of Nalhati, and his grandfather Haji Mojibur Rahman was originally from Simra in Gaya district. [2] Shams graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of Calcutta in 1988. [3]

Career

Shams contested in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election where he ran as a Trinamool Congress candidate for Nalhati Assembly constituency, defeating former MLA and Forward Ploc politician Dipak Chatterjee. [4] He contested in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election on an independent ticket but was unsuccessful. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "Moinuddin Shams (Independent)". My Neta.
  2. ↑ Who's who in India. University of Michigan. 1986. p. 425.
  3. ↑ "Moinuddin Shams (AITC)". My Neta.
  4. ↑ "Nalhati, 2016". Latestly. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  5. ↑ "Nalhati, 2021". Latestly. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
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