In harsh winter Mausam changes

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In harsh winter Mausam changes North Bengal politics

Amidst the chilling winter bites there may not be an immediate alteration of Mausam, but political weather certainly is shifting in North Bengal with home coming of Mausam Benazir Noor.

Barkat Ghani Khan Chowdhury's legacy, as it seems, has set to return back to Congress in Malda, Murshidabad and twin Dinajpur districts with the Mausam Noor's return back to her much awaited political courtyard.

Mausam was a two-time Lok Sabha MP from Malda from the Congress party between 2009 to 2019, before she defected to the Trinamool Congress seven years ago.

She rejoined the Congress at the party headquarters in the presence of senior leaders Jairam Ramesh, Ghulam Ahmed Mir and West Bengal Congress president Shubhankar Sarkar. Her cousin Isha Khan Chowdhury, Congress MP from the Malda Dakshin Lok Sabha seat, was also present at the event.

“I am a member of Barkat sahib’s (A.B.A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury) family. I am carrying on his legacy. We had a family discussion and decided to return to the Congress,” she said today.

Despite severing her ties with Trinamool, Ms. Noor did not make any harsh comments about the party or Ms. Banerjee. “I joined Trinamool a few years ago. Trinamool also gave me an opportunity to work. It made me a Rajya Sabha MP, gave me the responsibility of district president also,” she said.

She had sent her resignation letter to Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee, Ms. Noor told media persons. She would resign as Rajya Sabha MP, she added. Her tenure as an MP of the Upper House is likely to end in April 2026.