The political homecoming of Mausam Noor, the Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member who returned to the Congress on Saturday, has evoked mixed reactions, with some in the Congress calling her “opportunistic”. Leaders of the Trinamool Congress and the BJP said Noor’s return to the Congress would have little or no impact on Malda’s electoral politics. Ghani Khan Choudhury, the Congress stalwart dubbed as the architect of modern Malda, Noor was the district Congress president before joining Trinamool in 2019. It was Mamata Banerjee who made her a Rajya Sabha MP and appointed her district Trinamool president. The Malda BJP organisational district president Ajay Ganguly said Malda’s people had supported the Congress many times in the past.

Source: The Telegraph January 05, 2026 09:58 UTC