Mohammed Salim (politician)

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Mohammed Salim
মোহাম্মদ সেলিম
Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
Personal details
Born (1957-06-05) 5 June 1957 (age 66)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
SpouseDr. Rosina Khatun
Children2
ResidenceKolkata
Alma materUniversity of Calcutta
Jadavpur University
Websitemdsalim.org
As of 17 September, 2006
Source: [[1]]

Mohammed Salim (born 5 June 1957) (

Murshidabad (Lok Sabha constituency). [5]

Early life

Born on 5 June 1957 in the

Kolkata Port, and Ladly Haque, Salim was one of nine siblings. He did his schooling from St. Barnabas High School, Calcutta. Afterwards he studied Humanities. During this time, he was saved from drowning in a village in Uluberia by a woman, with whose family he still maintains contact.[citation needed
]

Political career

He joined the Maulana Azad College in Kolkata to study philosophy. During his college days, he became a part of the contemporary student's movement in West Bengal and became an active member of the Students' Federation of India. He was elected general secretary of the students' union of his college immediately after re-imposition of democracy post the Indian Emergency. He has stated that the Emergency was the most influential event in his life, which made him opt for politics.

After passing out from Maulana Azad College, he enrolled in

CPI(M) Nilotpal Basu and Manab Mukherjee
. He served as the President of Kolkata district committee of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (D.Y.F.I.) during 1983-1989.

He also served as the General Secretary of the DYFI from 1991 to 2001. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal in 1990 and served two terms till 2001.

In the West Bengal assembly elections held in 2001, he was elected from the

Entally. He served as the Minister for Technical Education and Training, Youth Welfare, Minority Development and Welfare, Self Employment
till 2004.

In the 14th General Elections held in 2004, he won from the

Calcutta North constituency, and lost to Sudip Bandyopadhyay of the Trinamool Congress.[3][4]

He was a member of the

CPI(M)
Lok Sabha group between 2004 and 2009 and again between 2014 and 2019. He also contested from the Chanditala Vidhan Sabha Constituency in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, but lost to actor Swati Khandoker of TMC.

He was also elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1998.[7] He was later inducted in the state committee and state secretariat in 2006. He was elected to the politburo of C.P.I.(M.) in the 21st party congress organised at Visakhapatnam in 2015.

In 2022, he was elected as Secretary of West Bengal state committee of CPI(M). He has led efforts to rejuvenate the party in West Bengal after it was routed in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Current Lok Sabha Members Biographical Sketch". Archived from the original on 5 September 2004.
  2. ^ a b "General Elections to Lok Sabha 2014 Constituency Wise Trends & Results". West Bengal. Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Selim drowns in Mamata wave". The Statesman, 17 May 2009. Archived from the original on 3 May 2006. Retrieved 20 May 2009.
  4. ^ "Left Front fields Md. Salim from Murshidabad". West Bengal. The Hindu. Retrieved 24 March 2024.
  5. ^ "All but one Left Front candidates set to lose their security deposit in West Bengal". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  6. ^ "A Ministry of promise". Frontline. 9 June 2001. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
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