{{Short description|Indian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Janab | name = Tafazzal Hossain | image = | native_name = তফজ্জল হোসেন | birth_date = | birth_place = {{flag|Bengal Presidency}} | office1 = Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly | constituency1 = Kharba | term_start1 = April 1951 | term_end1 = May 1957 | predecessor1 = ''Office established'' | successor1 = Golam Yazdani | party = Indian National Congress | spouse = Mariam Bibi | children = Mahabubul Haque | father = | website = | education = }} '''Tafazzal Hossain''' ({{langx|bn|তফজ্জল হোসেন}}) was an Indian Bengali Congress politician.<ref name="Assembly1956">{{cite book|author=West Bengal (India). Legislature. Legislative Assembly|title=Assembly Proceedings: official report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zVYAAAAMAAJ|date=3 July 1956|publisher=West Bengal Government Press|page=x}}</ref> He was an inaugural member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, representing the Kharba constituency.
==Early life and family== Tafazzal Hossain was born into a Bengali Muslim family from the village of Naikunda in Malda district, Bengal Presidency.<ref name="Sarkar1952">{{cite book|author=Subodh Chandra Sarkar|title=Indian Parliament and state legislatures: being the supplement to Hindustan year book, 1952|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oc05AQAAIAAJ|year=1952|publisher=M.C. Sarkar|page=68}}</ref>
He married Mariam Bibi, and they had a son named Mahabubul Haque Badal on 31 July 1941. Haque won the Kharba seat in the 1972 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election.<ref name="Assembly1974">{{cite book|author=West Bengal (India). Legislature. Legislative Assembly|title=Who's who 1972: General Election, March 1972|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I78yAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=West Bengal Legislative Assembly Secretariat|page=36}}</ref>
==Career== Hossain won the Kharba constituency seat in the inaugural 1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, standing as an Indian National Congress candidate.<ref name="Committee">{{cite book|author=Communist Party of India (Marxist). West Bengal State Committee|title=Election results of West Bengal: statistics & analysis, 1952-1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CNeNAAAAMAAJ|publisher=The Committee|pages=427|isbn=9788176260282}}</ref>
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