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Shahnawaz Ali Raihan is an Indian scholar and politician from West Bengal who was elected as Member of 18th Lok Sabha from Maldaha Dakshin constituency since 2024. He belongs to All India Trinamool Congress.

Birth and education
Raihan was born on 1982 in Kaliachak, of Malda, West Bengal. He persued a Master of Arts from Jamia Millia Islamia in 2008 and DPhil from St Antony’s College in Oxford, UK.

Early career
Raihan was a research scholar from Oxford. He made a thesis, titled Between Marx and Muhammad: Muslims and Communism in Bengal, is about Communism, but he claims that the Marxists became capitalists and bourgeois. He is making his political debut and claims to have always been passionate about politics.

Raihan was part of a group that protested against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) in front of the Indian High Commission in London around 2019-’20.

Political career
He joined Trinamool Congress on 2024 and contesting from Malda South.