Monirul Islam (born 1960) was an Indian farmer, social worker and politician belonging to the

Trinamool Congress The All India Trinamool Congress (; AITC), simply known as Trinamool Congress, is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the Federated state, state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a Lis ...

. He served as a member of the

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for a decade.

Early life and family

Monirul Islam was born in 1960 to a

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family in the

Birbhum district Birbhum district () is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the northernmost district of Burdwan division—one of the five administrative divisions of West Bengal. The district headquarters is in Suri. Other impo ...

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. He was the son of Ahasan Ahamad and obtained his

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from the Ramnagar Sahora Union High School in 1976.

Career

Islam contested in the

2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election Assembly election was held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2011 to elect the members of West Bengal Legislative Assembly as the term of the incumbent government was about to expire naturally. The election was held in six phases between 18 Ap ...

where he ran as a

candidate for Labpur Assembly constituency, defeating former MLA and Marxist politician Nabanita Mukherjee. He contested in the

2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in 2016 for 294 seats of the ''Vidhan Sabha'' in the Indian state of West Bengal. The All India Trinamool Congress under Mamata Banerjee won 211 seats, and thus was re-elected with an enhanced majority. ...

and was re-elected to Labpur after winning against Marxist candidate Syed Mahfuzul Karim. Islam contested in the

2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election The 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election was the 17th quinquennial List of Indian state legislative assembly elections, legislative election held in Elections in West Bengal, West Bengal, to elect List of constituencies of the West ...

on an independent ticket but was unsuccessful.

References

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