Musharraf Hussain

Kazi Musharraf Hussain (187115 November 1966) was an Indian politician. He was a minister in the Bengal Legislative Assembly and was later a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Early life Kazi Musharraf Hussain was born in 1871 to an aristocratic Bengali family of Muslim Kazis in Cheora, Chauddagram, then part of the Tipperah district of the Bengal Presidency. His family was a Zamindar family in the region. His father was Kazi Mukarram Ali, who was lawyer at Comilla Judge Court. He graduated from Hooghly Mohsin College in 1899. He completed his law degree from the University of Calcutta. After graduation he married Faizunnesa Begum. His wife was the daughter of a tea planter through who he inherited tea estates in Jalpaiguri. He joined the Muslim League after the elections. From 1937 to 1941 he was the minister of Law and Judicial ministry. From 1943 to 1945 he was in charge of another ministry. Hussain was re-elected from the same constituency at the 1946 Bengal Legislative Assembly election. He was initially an advocate of the Pakistan Movement but he remained in India after the Partition. He went on to serve in the West Bengal state assembly.

Death Musharraf died on 15 November 1966.