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Heena Shahab
'''Heena Shahab''' is an Indian politician from the state of [[Bihar]]. She is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) political party and wife of the Indin politician Mohammad Shahabuddin, a former [[member of parliament]] from Siwan district. Shahab is the current Leader of Opposition from Siwan Lok Sabha constituency.

{{short description|Indian politician}}
{{Infobox Politician
| name                = Heena Shahab
| spouse =  Mohammad Shahabuddin
(contracted; show full)
 
During her graduations she married Mohammad Shahabuddin.

== Political career ==
 
In the [[Indian]] [[general]] [[elections]], 2009, her husband was in jail serving [[life imprisonment]] for [[kidnapping]] and [[murder]] in 2007<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://m.patrika.com/miscellenous-india/mohammad-shahabuddin-wife-hena-sahab-and-family-1398140/|title=हिंदी खबर, Latest News in Hindi, हिंदी समाचार, ताजा खबर|website=Patrika News|language=hi
ndi|access-date=2020-03-26}}</ref> during these period Rashtriya Janata Dal chief [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]] gave ticket to Mohammad Shahabuddin's wife Heena Shahab in 2009, 2014 and 2019 consecutive years. Shahab had no political experience She had spent most of her years indoors, immersed in the scriptures and household chores.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/lok-sabha-2019/story/siwan-lok-sabha-seat-uttar-pradesh-hena-shabab-kavita-singh-1511468-2019-04-27|title=In Siwan Lok Sabha seat, wives of two dons take on each other|last=DelhiApril 27|first=Amitabh Srivastava New|last2=April 27|first2=2019UPDATED:|website=India Today|language=en|access-date=2020-03-26|last3=Ist|first3=2019 13:30}}</ref> until then had led a devout [[burqa]]-clad life, contested from her husband's  Siwan Lok Sabha constituency as a candidate of RJD political party.

==2009 elections==
 
In 2009 elections, her main opponent was indepedent Om Prakash Yadav. Heena was not an active campaigner, showing herself in public only at a few meetings with RJD cheif [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]] and her star campaigner, [[bollywood]] [[movie]] actor Sanjay Dutt.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://specials.rediff.com/election/2009/apr/15sld1-from-behind-a-veil-a-prisoners-wife-seeks-the-vote.htm |title=rediff.com: From behind a veil, a prisoner's wife seeks the vote |publisher=[[Rediff.com]] |date=15 April 2009 |access-date=24 February 2012}}</ref> She garnered 172,764 (~29%) of the votes, but lost to Prakash by 63,000 votes.<ref>{{Cite news|last=India|first=Press Trust of|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/elections-2014/no-modi-wave-in-siwan-claims-shahabuddin-s-wife-114032300101_1.html|title=No Modi wave in Siwan, claims Shahabuddin's wife|date=2014-03-23|work=Business Standard India|access-date=2020-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/elections/bihar-lok-sabha-(contracted; show full)==References==
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Bihar]]
[[Category:Indian politicians]]
[[Category:1976 births]]
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