Begum Tabassum Hasan

Begum Tabassum Hasan (born 1970) is a Samajwadi Party political activist, former Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha from the Kairana Lok Sabha Constituency in Uttar Pradesh, and wife of former MP late Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan.

Begum husband Chaudhary Munawwar Hasan was elected to Lok Sabha in 2004 but died in an accident in 2008.

Her son Nahid Hasan lost 2014 Lok Sabha poll from Kairana as a Samajwadi Party candidate.

In the 2018 bypoll for Kairana, she won by a margin of nearly 50,000 votes as a Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate supported by a "grand coalition" of Indian National Congress, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party.

[1][5] However, she joined Samajwadi Party and lost the Kairana seat, a year later, to BJP's Pradeep Choudhary, by a margin of over 90,000 votes, in 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.