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	'''Rashida Haque Choudhury''' was the Minister of State of Social Welfare in [[Charan Singh ministry]] from 1979 to 1980.		'''Rashida Haque Choudhury''' was the Minister of State of Social Welfare in [[Charan Singh ministry]] from 1979 to 1980.

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'''Rashida Haque Choudhury''' was the Minister of State of Social Welfare in [[Charan Singh ministry]] from 1979 to 1980.

==Early life==
Rashida Haque was born on 24 April 1926 in [[Tezpur, Assam]] to Alhaj Nasib Ali Majumdar and his wife. She was educated at a [[Mission school]] in Silchar and received her [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from [[Lady Brabourne College]], Kolkata.<ref>{{cite book|title=Parliament of India, Sixth Lok Sabha, Who's who 1977|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3OBFAQAAIAAJ|edition=1|year=1977|publisher=[[Lok Sabha|Lok Sabha Secretariat]]|page=125}}</ref>

==Career==
Choudhury joined the [[Indian National Congress]] (INC) party in 1950.<ref name="LS">{{cite web|title=Members Bioprofile: Choudhury, Shrimati Rashida Haque|url=http://164.100.47.194/loksabha/writereaddata/biodata_1_12/2345.htm|publisher=[[Lok Sabha]]|accessdate=1 November 2017}}</ref> She contested the [[1977 Indian general election]] as an INC candidate from [[Silchar (Lok Sabha constituency)|Silchar]]. Choudhury obtained 1,38,638 votes and defeated [[Nurul Huda (CPI(M) politician)|Nurul Huda]] of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] by more than 28,000 votes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on the General Elections, 1977 to the Sixth Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1977/Vol_II_LS77.pdf|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|accessdate=1 November 2017|page=50}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Indian Journal of Political Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uW4KAAAAIAAJ|volume=39|year=1978|publisher=Indian Political Science Association|page=75}}</ref> She served on the Committee of Social Work for Bangladesh Refugees.<ref name="LS" /> Later she joined the [[Indian National Congress (Urs)]], a breakaway faction of INC and was in 1979, made a Minister of State for Education, Social Welfare and Culture in the [[Charan Singh ministry]].<ref name="Jain1993">{{cite book|last=Jain|first=C. K.|title=Women Parliamentarians in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f2yPAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Surjeet Publications|page=39}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=India Ministers|url=http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/India.htm|publisher=Guide 2 Women Leaders|accessdate=1 November 2017}}</ref>

Choudhury stood for [[1980 Indian general election|election in 1980]] from Silchar. This time, however, she received 46.98% of votes and finished second to INC(I)'s [[Santosh Mohan Dev]] (52% votes).<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistical Report on the General Elections, 1980 to the Seventh Lok Sabha|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/LS_1980/Vol_I_LS_80.pdf|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]|accessdate=1 November 2017|page=134}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Rashida married INC politician [[Moinul Hoque Choudhury]] on 28 December 1948, with whom she had one son and three daughters.<ref name="LS" />

==References==
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>BrownHairedGirl: WP:ELLINKS (2/2): Indian general election, 1977 → 1977 Indian general election; Indian general election, 1980 → 1980 Indian general election;