Begum Tabassum Hasan (b 1970) is a

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; translation: ''Socialist Party'', founded 4 October 1992) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India, headquartered in New Delhi but mainly based in Uttar Pradesh, with significant presence in other states as w ...

political activist, former

Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha A Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha (abbreviated: MP) is the representative of a legislative constituency in the Lok Sabha; the lower house of the Parliament of India. Members of parliament of Lok Sabha are chosen by direct Elections in I ...

from the

Kairana Lok Sabha Constituency Kairana Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 80 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Vidhan Sabha Segments Presently, Kairana Lok Sabha constituency comprises five Vidhan Sabha (legislative assembly) se ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

, and wife of former MP late

Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan (15 May 1964 – 10 December 2008) was an MP and political activist during Mulayam Singh Yadav's Government between 2003 and 2007. Personal life Munawwar was born in a Gujjar family, has four brothers, was married to ...

. She has been with Bahujan Samaj Party, Ajit Singh's Lok Dal, and Samajwadi Party.

Life

Begam husband

was elected to Lok Sabha in 2004 but died in an accident in 2008. She was first elected to Lok Sabha in 2009 as a

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), alon ...

candidate. She won By-Election from Kairana Lok Sabha seat in 2018 after seat vacated due to death of sitting MP

Hukum Singh Hukum Singh (5 April 1938 – 3 February 2018) was an Indian politician who served as the Member of Parliament from Kairana in Uttar Pradesh as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate. He was a member of the Panel of Chairpersons of the 16th L ...

Political career

She was first elected to Lok Sabha in 2009 as a

candidate from Kairana. Her son

Nahid Hasan Nahid Hasan is an Indian politician and a member of the 18th Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. He was also a member of the 16th and 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. Hasan represents the Kairana constituency of Uttar Pradesh and i ...

lost 2014 Lok Sabha poll from Kairana as a

candidate. In the 2018

bypoll A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

for Kairana, she won by a margin of nearly 50,000 votes as a

Rashtriya Lok Dal Rashtriya Lok Dal (abbreviated as RLD) (translation: National People's Party) is a political party in India founded by Chaudhary Ajit Singh. He was carrying on the political legacy of his father and former Prime Minister of India, Chaudhary Ch ...

candidate supported by a "grand coalition" of

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

and

. However, she joined Samajwadi Party and lost the Kairana seat, a year later, to BJP's

Pradeep Choudhary Pradeep Kumar is an Indian politician and member of the 13th, 16th and 17th Legislative Assembly of Uttar Pradesh. In 2017 he represented the Gangoh constituency of Uttar Pradesh and is a member of the Bhartiya Janata Party. He is elected as M ...

, by a margin of over 90,000 votes, in 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.

Positions held

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hasan, Begum Tabassum 1970 births Living people Rashtriya Lok Dal politicians Lok Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh Women in Uttar Pradesh politics 21st-century Indian women politicians 21st-century Indian politicians India MPs 2014–2019 Bahujan Samaj Party politicians from Uttar Pradesh Samajwadi Party politicians