In West Bengal’s Malatipur, Trinamool Congress’ Abdur Rahim Boxi defeated Bharatiya Janta Party’s Ashish Das by 59,747 votes. Boxi secured total votes of 1,04,123, while Das lost with only 43,346 votes.Malatipur in 2026 will feature TMC’s sitting MLA Abdur Rahim Boxi against BJP’s Ashish Das and Congress’s Mausam Noor.Malatipur is a general constituency in Malda district, under the Maldaha Uttar Lok Sabha seat. It covers Chanchal II community development block and several panchayats of Ratua II block. The area is entirely rural with a sizable Muslim population and a smaller SC/ST presence. The seat’s political history is colorful — Abdur Rahim Boxi has represented the area for multiple terms under different party labels, having won for the RSP in 2011 and then narrowly losing to Congress’s Alberuni Zulkarnain in 2016.In 2016, Congress’s Alberuni Zulkarnain defeated Boxi by a narrow margin. By 2021, however, Boxi had switched to TMC and won the seat in a landslide, securing over 68 per cent of the vote and a majority of over 91,000 votes. That extraordinary margin made Malatipur one of the most lopsided results in Malda in 2021. The 2026 contest sees Boxi again on the TMC ticket, and Congress has turned to Mausam Noor — a prominent figure in north Bengal’s Congress politics — to mount a challenge. It will be a significant test of the Congress revival narrative in this region.
