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In a large boost to the Congress enactment up of the Assembly predetermination successful West Bengal, Rajya Sabha MP of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) Mousam Noor joined the Congress party.
“West Bengal wants change,” the two-time Lok Sabha MP said aft joining the Congress. She had implicit religion successful the Congress enactment and was consenting to enarthrosis immoderate work the enactment offered her, Ms. Noor said.
She hails from the household of Congress person and the precocious erstwhile Union Minister A.B.A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury, whose sanction remains synonymous with Congress enactment successful Malda territory decades aft his passing.
Ms. Noor was a two-time Lok Sabha MP from Malda from the Congress enactment from 2009 to 2019, earlier she defected to the Trinamool Congress 7 years ago.
She rejoined the Congress astatine the enactment office successful the beingness of elder leaders Jairam Ramesh, Ghulam Ahmed Mir and West Bengal Congress president Shubhankar Sarkar. Her relative Isha Khan Chowdhury, Congress MP from the Malda Dakshin Lok Sabha seat, was besides contiguous astatine the event.
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“I americium a subordinate of Barkat sahib’s (A.B.A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury) family. I americium carrying connected his legacy. We had a household treatment and decided to instrumentality to the Congress,” she said.
She had sent her resignation missive to Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee, Ms. Noor told media persons. She would resign arsenic Rajya Sabha MP, she added. Her tenure arsenic an MP of the Upper House is apt to extremity successful April 2026.
Despite severing her ties with Trinamool, Ms. Noor did not marque immoderate harsh comments astir the enactment oregon Ms. Banerjee. “I joined Trinamool a fewer years ago. Trinamool besides gave maine an accidental to work. It made maine a Rajya Sabha MP, gave maine the work of territory president also,” she said.
Ms. Noor is well-known successful the State’s Malda district, wherever the Trinamool Congress is yet to found its governmental dominance contempt being successful powerfulness successful West Bengal for the past 15 years. In the 2024 Lok Sabha election, the Trinamool mislaid some the Lok Sabha seats successful the district. The Malda Dakshin spot went to the Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Malda Uttar Lok Sabha seat.
Political observers judge Ms. Noor’s instrumentality volition boost the Congress’s prospects successful Malda district.
The Congress enactment and the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Front had forged an electoral confederation implicit the past fewer elections successful West Bengal, but the confederation has not yielded electoral outcomes successful the highly bipolar authorities of the State.
“Our purpose is to fortify the Congress. If the Congress is strong, the confederation volition beryllium strong. If the Congress is weak, the confederation volition besides beryllium weak,” Ms. Noor said, erstwhile asked astir the party’s confederation with the Left Front.
