Begum Tabassum Hasan

Begum Tabassum Hasan (born 1970) is a Samajwadi Party political activist, former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from the Kairana Lok Sabha Constituency in Uttar Pradesh, and wife of former MP late Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan. She has been with Bahujan Samaj Party, Ajit Singh's Rashtriya Lok Dal, and Samajwadi Party.

Life Begum husband Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan was elected to Lok Sabha in 2004 but died in an accident in 2008. She was first elected to Lok Sabha in 2009 as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate. She won By-Election from Kairana Lok Sabha seat in 2018 after seat vacated due to death of sitting MP Hukum Singh. She lost the seat in 2019.

Political career She was first elected to Lok Sabha in 2009 as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate from Kairana. Her son Nahid Hasan lost 2014 Lok Sabha poll from Kairana as a Samajwadi Party candidate. In the 2018 bypoll for Kairana, she won by a margin of nearly 50,000 votes as a Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate supported by a "grand coalition" of Indian National Congress, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party. However, she joined Samajwadi Party and lost the Kairana seat, a year later, to BJP's Pradeep Choudhary, by a margin of over 90,000 votes, in 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.

Positions held Year Description 2009 Elected to 15th Lok Sabha 31 Aug. 2009 Member, Committee on Health & Family Welfare Member, Consultative Committee, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment 15 Oct. 2009 Member, Committee on Food Management in Parliament House Complex Member, U.P. Sunni Central Waqf Board 2017 - 31 May 2018 Member, Zila Panchayat, Shamli 31 May 2018 - 23 May 2019 Elected to 16th Lok Sabha in a by-election (2nd Term) Member, Standing Committee on Human Resource Development