Sajda Ahmed To Run On TMC Ticket From UluberiaSajda Ahmed is the second time-elected TMC MP from Uluberia, West Bengal. She has been nominated by Mamata Banerjee to run for the 18th Lok Sabha elections. The date of voting for the Uluberia Lok Sabha constituency election 2024 is 20 May 2024.
A graduate from the University of Calcutta, Sajda is a social worker. She won the last Lok Sabha elections with 53 percent of votes by defeating BJP candidate Joy Banerjee with a margin of 4.75 lakh votes. She registered 58 percent attendance in the lower house during her current tenure, participated in 11 debates, and asked 184 questions. In the 2018 elections, she secured 61 percent votes.
After being nominated for the election, the wife of late Sultan Ahmed, the former Union Minister of Tourism, attacked BJP communal politics by saying it was divisive and emphasised on development agenda of her party.
Uluberia constituency’s seven assemblies lie in Howrah district. The constituency had been won by Sultan Ahmed earlier and then by Sajda Ahmed since 2009. Initially, the constituency was dominated by the left and later on by the Indian National Congress. Since 1971, CPM held sway over the constituency till 1999, since then TMC started emerging victorious.
It is a general category seat with a literacy rate of 74.33 percent. The Muslim voters are 27.8%, SC voters are 19.6% and STs are 0.1% in the constituency. The total rural and urban population is 69.7% and 30.3% respectively. In the last parliamentary elections, the voter turnout was 81.1%.
BJP has fielded Arun Uday Paul Chowdhury from Uluberia constituency.