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Indian politician

ConstituencySuti

ConstituencyJangipur

Born (1932-07-08) 8 July 1932 (age 93)

Md. Sohrab

Member of Legislative Assembly
In office 1969-1971, 1971-1972, 1977-1982, 1996-2001
Constituency	Suti
Member of Legislative Assembly
In office 2011–2016
Constituency	Jangipur

Personal details
Born	(1932-07-08) 8 July 1932 (age 93)
Party	Indian National Congress

Md. Sohrab is a Congress politician, five-time MLA and Congress legislature party leader in the West Bengal state assembly.

Md. Sohrab, son of Yar Mohammad, is a post-graduate and is a retired head-teacher.^[1]^[2]

Political career

He was elected to the West Bengal state assembly from Suti (Vidhan Sabha constituency) in 1969,^[3] 1971,^[4] 1977^[5] and 1996,^[6] as a Congress candidate.

When he was not given a party ticket to contest in 2001, he filed his nomination in the same constituency as a rebel candidate and lost.^[7] At that Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who has a reputation for sponsoring rebels, commented, "Do you expect my former mastermoshai Md Sohrab (rebel candidate from Suti) and five-time MLA Habibur Rahman (rebel candidate from Jangipur) to listen to me?"^[8]

In 2011, he won from Jangipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)^[9] and was Congress legislature party leader.^[10] He joined All India Trinamool Congress in 2016.^[11]

References

↑ "Affidavit Details of Md. Sohrab". Empowering India. Archived from the original on 26 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
↑ "Election Watch Reporter". Md. Sohrab. My Neta. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
↑ "General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
↑ "General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
↑ "General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
↑ "General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
↑ "General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
↑ "Prisoner of rebel shadows". National – The Telegraph 26 April 2001. Retrieved 21 July 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ "General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal" (PDF). Constituency-wise Data. Election Commission. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
↑ "Congress appeals to Didi's 'Bengali sentiment' to support Pranab". The Times of India. 11 June 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ ...TMC here with Manas & Sohrab

v t e Members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Malda division
Presidency division MLAs Jalpaiguri division MLAs
Sankar Chakraborty Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury Abu Nasar Khan Choudhury Krishnendu Narayan Choudhury Abdul Karim Chowdhury Biswanath Chowdhury Deepa Dasmunsi Chhaya Ghosh Lutfal Haque Abul Hasnat Khan Abu Hena Abdul Mannan Hossain Dinesh Chandra Joarder Sabitri Mitra Mausam Noor Rubi Noor Anisur Rahman Hamidul Rahman Ali Imran Ramz Pramatha Nath Ray Narmada Chandra Roy Hafiz Alam Sairani Sailen Sarkar Abdus Sattar (Murshidabad politician) Atish Chandra Sinha Md. Sohrab Sabina Yeasmin Golam Yazdani		Divisions of West Bengal

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