Mafuja Khatun

Mafuja Khatun
Mafuja Khatun
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office 2001–2011
Preceded by	Dwijendra Nath Roy
Succeeded by	Mahmuda Begum
Constituency	Kumarganj
Minority Morcha Vice-president of West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party
In office 2017–2019
Preceded by	Dilip Ghosh
Vice-president of the BJP West Bengal
Incumbent
Assumed office 2019
President	Samik Bhattacharya Sukanta Majumder Dilip Ghosh
Personal details
Born	(1970-06-16) June 16, 1970 (age 55) Fulbari, West Bengal, India
Political party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Other political affiliations	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Residence	Berhampore
Alma mater	Balurghat College

Mafuja Khatun (born 16 June 1970) is an Indian politician who is the current Vice-president of Bharatiya Janata Party of West Bengal since from 2019.

Khatun is the first Muslim woman fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party for Lok Sabha.^[1]

Khatun was born in 16 June 1970 to a Bengali family of Muslim Syeds in Khaspara, Gangarampur, West Dinajpur district, West Bengal.^[2] She is the daughter of Sufi personality Syed Asghar Ali Shah Faqir. Khatun completed her Madhyamik Pariksha from Rampur High School in 1987 and achieved her Higher Secondary Certificate from Gangarampur High School in 1989. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Balurghat College (then affiliated with University of North Bengal) in 1992.^[3]

In the 2006^[4] and 2001^[5] state assembly elections, Mafuza Khatun won the Kumarganj assembly seat from CPI(M) by defeating her nearest rivals Ahmad Ali Sardar and Nani Gopal Roy, both of Trinamool Congress respectively.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, she was the Bharatiya Janata Party^[6] nominated candidate for Jangipur.^[7]

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