India, May 4 -- All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) senior leader and sitting Minister of State, Sabina Yasmin, is contesting the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections from the Sujapur constituency in Malda district. A historic figure in Bengal politics as the state's first Muslim woman minister, Yasmin has shifted from her long-held seat of Mothabari this cycle to fortify the TMC's presence in the Congress-dominated Sujapur belt.

Yasmin's 2026 campaign is a strategic pivot. Since May 2021, she has served as the Minister of State for Irrigation and Waterways and North Bengal Development. On the campaign trail in Sujapur, she has framed the election as a battle for "continued development" versus "legacy politics," urging voters to choose th...