M.A. Rasul

Mohammed Abdullah Rasul was an Indian politician. He belonged to the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Rasul was a leader of the peasant movement. Rasul was arrested during the 1959 Food Movement.

Independence, Partition and Tebhaga movement Rasul was elected general secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha at its 10th conference held in Sikandra Rao in 1947. In 1947, Rasul and a number of other Muslim party leaders were sent to East Pakistan to build the party there. Rasul's stay in Pakistan became short, however, and he soon returned to India.

Legislator and Minister Rasul was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Council. He was elected by the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. He was named Minister of Transport (leading the transport branch of the Home Department) in the second United Front government of West Bengal, formed in February 1969. Rasul resigned as Minister of Transport after the West Bengal Legislative Council was abolished.