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After man bags Suar assembly seat, wife wins Uttar Pradesh local body poll | India News

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LUCKNOW: It eventually turned to be a double delight for Shafeeq Ahmad, the lone Muslim MLA of the BJP-led NDA in Uttar Pradesh.
While Ansari won the bypoll in Rampur’s Suar assembly seat – the bastion of SP senior Azam Khan – as a candidate of BJP ally Apna Dal (S) defeating SP candidate Anuradha Chauhan; his wife Reshma Parveen, also an AD (S) candidate, registered a victory as the Suar Nagar Palika Parishad (NPP) chairperson. Parveen, 53, was elected as Suar NPP chairman in 2017 civic polls also but as an independent. This time, she along with her husband joined the AD (S) – a move that paid off. The couple happens to be Pasmanda Muslim, the socio-economically backward community among the minority.
According to an affidavit submitted with the state election commission, Parveen belongs to ‘Momin‘ (Ansar) caste, which is categorised as OBC in UP. She has studied up to class eight and the couple have assets worth over Rs 5 crore. “Janta ne bahut support kiya…sabhi ne vote diya (The public supported us strongly. Everyone voted for us),” Reshma told TOI.


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