Afrin Ali née Aparupa Poddar (born 8 January 1986) is an Indian politician and a member of parliament to the 16th 17th Lok Sabha from Arambagh (Lok Sabha constituency), West Bengal.
[1][2] She won the 2014 & 2019 Indian general election as an All India Trinamool Congress candidate.
Born into a Hindu family and named Aparupa Poddar at birth, she married a Muslim man.
She then stood for election from a parliamentary constituency which is reserved for those belonging to the scheduled castes.
The Bharatiya Janata Party lodged a complaint with the Election Commission seeking cancellation of her candidature on the plea that she had converted to Islam and hence she did not belong to a scheduled caste.