Toraf Hossain Mandal

Mandal was born in 1959 to a Bengali family of Muslim Mandals in the village of Doraha in West Dinajpur district, West Bengal. He was the son of Haji Rahimuddin Mandal. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Balurghat College (affiliated with University of North Bengal) in 1985.^[3]

Mandal worked at a madrasa. He successfully contested in the 2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election where he ran as a Trinamool Congress candidate for the Kumarganj Assembly constituency, defeating Marxist candidate Mafuja Khatun.^[4][5] Mandal regained his seat in Kumarganj following the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election where he defeated the Hindutva-aligned BJP-WB candidate Manas Sarkar.^[6]