Mohammed Salim (politician)

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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mohammed Salim
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| native_name_lang = bn
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|6|5|df=y}}
| birth_place =[[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| residence = [[Kolkata]]
| death_date =
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| office = [[Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)|Member of Polit Bureau]], [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| term_start = 19 April 2015
| term_end =
| office5 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of Legislative Assembly]], [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly|West Bengal]]
| constituency5 = [[Entally (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Entally]]
| term_start5 = 2001
| term_end5 = 2004
| predecessor5 = [[Sultan Ahmed (Indian politician)|Sultan Ahmed]]
| successor5 = Md. Abu Sufayen
| office4 = Minister for Technical Education and Training, Youth Welfare, Minority Development and Welfare, Self Employment, [[Government of West Bengal]]
| term_start4 = 16 May 2001
| term_end4 = 17 May 2004
| predecessor4 = Satyasadhan Chakraborty
| successor4 =
| Chief_Minister4 = [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]
| governor4 =
| office1 = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
| constituency1 = [[Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency)|Raiganj]]
|term_start1 = 2014
|term_end1 = 2019
| predecessor1 = [[Deepa Dasmunsi]]
| successor1 = [[Debasree Chaudhuri]]
|constituency3 = [[Calcutta North East (Lok Sabha constituency)|Calcutta North East]]
|term3 = 2004–2009
|predecessor3 = [[Ajit Kumar Panja]]
|successor3 =Constituency abolished
| primeminister6 = [[V. P. Singh]] [[Chandra Shekhar]] [[P. V. Narasimha Rao]] [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]] [[H. D. Deve Gowda]] [[I. K. Gujral]] [[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]
| office6 = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]], [[Rajya Sabha]]
| constituency6 = [[Rajya Sabha members from West Bengal|West Bengal]]
| term_start6 = 3 April 1990
| term_end6 = 16 May 2001
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| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]] [[Maulana Azad College]] [[Jadavpur University]]
|spouse = Dr. Rosina Khatun
|children = 2 sons
|website = [http://mdsalim.org mdsalim.org]
|footnotes =
|date = 17 September
|year = 2006
|source = <ref name="ls">[http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=236 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040905133158/http://164.100.24.208/ls/lsmember/biodata.asp?mpsno=236 |date=5 September 2004 }}</ref>}}
'''Mohammed Salim''' ({{lang-bn|মহম্মদ সেলিম}}, born 5 June 1957) is an [[India]]n politician, belonging to the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. He was inducted in the politburo of CPI(M) in the 21st party congress organised at Visakhapatnam in 2015. He was a member of the [[16th Lok Sabha]], representing [[Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency)|Raiganj]] constituency.<ref name="loksabha2014">{{cite web| url = http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS256.htm?ac=5 |title = General Elections to Lok Sabha 2014 Constituency Wise Trends & Results |work = West Bengal | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 22 May 2014 }}</ref> Earlier, he was a member of the [[14th Lok Sabha]], representing the [[Calcutta North East (Lok Sabha constituency)|Calcutta North East]] constituency of [[West Bengal]].<ref name="ls" /> After delimitation, in the [[2009 Indian general election|2009 Lok Sabha election]] Salim contested the new [[Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Calcutta North constituency]], and lost to Sudip Bandyopadhyay of the [[Trinamool Congress]].<ref name="Partywise Trends & Result">[http://www.eciresults.nic.in/StateWiseTrends.htm Partywise Trends & Result]. ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA 2005</ref><ref name="statesman">{{cite web| url = http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=6&id=254826&usrsess=1| title = Selim drowns in Mamata wave| access-date = 2009-05-20| publisher = The Statesman, 17 May 2009| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060503235132/http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=6| archive-date = 3 May 2006| url-status = dead| df = dmy-all}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Born on 5 June 1957 in the [[Kidderpore]] area of [[South Kolkata]] to Azizul Haque, an employee of [[Kolkata Port]], and Ladly Haque, Salim was one of nine siblings. He did his schooling from St. Barnabas High School, Calcutta. Afterwards he studied [[Humanities]]. During this time, he was saved from drowning in a village in [[Uluberia]] by a woman, with whose family he still maintains contact.{{citation needed|date=April 2019}}

== Political career ==
He joined [[Maulana Azad College]] to study [[philosophy]]. During his college days, he became a part of the contemporary student's movement in [[West Bengal]] and became an active member of the [[Students' Federation of India]]. He was elected general secretary of the students' union of his college immediately after re-imposition of democracy post the [[The Emergency (India)|Indian Emergency]]. He has stated that the Emergency was the most influential event in his life, which made him opt for politics. After passing out from Maulana Azad College, he enrolled in [[Jadavpur University]] to obtain his master's degree in philosophy. During his days of student activism in Jadavpur, he met up with his future colleagues at [[CPI(M)]] [[Nilotpal Basu]] and [[Manab Mukherjee]]. He also served as the general secretary of the Democratic Youth Federation of India (D.Y.F.I.) from 1991 to 2001. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal in 1990 and served two terms till 2001. In the West Bengal assembly elections held in 2001, he was elected from the [[Entally (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Entally]]. He served as the [[Ministry of Youth Affairs and Skills Development|Minister for Technical Education and Training, Youth Welfare, Minority Development and Welfare, Self Employment]] till 2004. In the 14th General Elections held in 2004, he won the [[Calcutta North East (Lok Sabha constituency)|Calcutta North East]] constituency of [[West Bengal]] and served as the deputy leader of the [[CPI(M)]] Lok Sabha group. After delimitation, in the [[2009 Indian general election|2009 Lok Sabha election]] Salim contested the new [[Kolkata Uttar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Calcutta North constituency]], and lost to Sudip Bandyopadhyay of the [[Trinamool Congress]].<ref name="Partywise Trends & Result"/><ref name=statesman>{{cite web| url = http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=6&id=254826&usrsess=1| title = Selim drowns in Mamata wave| access-date = 2009-05-20| publisher = The Statesman, 17 May 2009| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060503235132/http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=6| archive-date = 3 May 2006| url-status = dead| df = dmy-all}}</ref> He was a member of the [[16th Lok Sabha]], representing [[Raiganj (Lok Sabha constituency)|Raiganj]] constituency.<ref name=loksabha2014>{{cite web| url = http://eciresults.nic.in/ConstituencywiseS256.htm?ac=5 |title = General Elections to Lok Sabha 2014 Constituency Wise Trends & Results |work = West Bengal | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 22 May 2014 }}</ref> In [[2019 Indian general election in West Bengal|2019 Indian general election]] he again contested from Raiganj but lost against [[Debasree Chaudhuri]] of [[Bharatiya Janata Party, West Bengal|Bharatiya Janata Party]] and lost his security deposit after becoming third candidate.<ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|date=2019-05-23|title=All but one Left Front candidates set to lose their security deposit in West Bengal|work=Business Standard India|agency=Press Trust of India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/all-but-one-left-front-candidates-set-to-lose-their-security-deposit-in-west-bengal-119052302195_1.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-18}}</ref> He was also elected to the Central Committee of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]. He was inducted in the politburo of C.P.I.(M.) in the 21st party congress organised at Visakhapatnam in 2015. He also served as the deputy leader of the [[CPI(M)]] Lok Sabha group. He also contested from the Chanditala Vidhan Sabha Constituency in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, but lost to actor Soham Chakraborty of the TMC.

== References ==
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{{16th LS members from West Bengal}}
{{Eleventh to Fourteenth Lok Sabha, West Bengal}}
{{West Bengal Legislative Assembly2}}

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