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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Billal Miah
| image =
| caption =
| office = Former Minister of the [[Tripura Legislative Assembly]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Tripura Pradesh Congress continued its protests against the farmer bill 2020. |url=https://tripuranewslive.com/2020/10/11/tripura-pradesh-congress-continued-its-protests-against-the-farmer-bill-2020/ |access-date=27 February 2022 |work=Tripura News Live |date=11 October 2020 |language=en |archive-date=27 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227175042/https://tripuranewslive.com/2020/10/11/tripura-pradesh-congress-continued-its-protests-against-the-farmer-bill-2020/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tripura Assembly since 1963 |url=http://tripuraassembly.nic.in/assembly%20since%201963.pdf |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231040820/http://tripuraassembly.nic.in/assembly%20since%201963.pdf |archive-date=31 December 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| constituency = [[Boxanagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Boxanagar]]
| term_start = 1998
| predecessor = Sahil Chouwdhury
| term_end = 2003
| successor = Sahil Chouwdhury
| term_start1 = 1988
| predecessor1 = [[Arabar Rahman]]
| term_end1 = 1993
| successor1 = Sahil Chouwdhury
| office2 = President of [[Minority Morcha BJP, Tripura Pradesh]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Tripura BJP announces 18-member state committee ahead of 2024 LS polls |url=https://www.business-standard.com/politics/tripura-bjp-announces-18-member-state-committee-ahead-of-2024-ls-polls-123123000354_1.html|access-date=2 January 2024 |agency=Business Standard }}</ref>
| status = [[Incumbent]]
| term_start2 = Dec 2023
| term_end2 =
| office3 = Former Working President of [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]]<ref name="uniindia.net">{{cite news |title=AICC appoints new president in Tripura |url=http://www.uniindia.net/~/aicc-appoints-new-president-in-tripura/States/news/2515928.html |access-date=27 February 2022 |agency=United News of India}}</ref>
| term_start3 = Sep 2021
| term_end3 = Aug 2023
| office4 = Chairman of [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]] Minority Department<ref name="Zee News">{{cite news |title=Congress names new heads for minority departments of states |url=https://zeenews.india.com/news/india/congress-names-new-heads-for-minority-departments-of-states_1513902.html |access-date=28 February 2022 |work=Zee News |date=13 December 2014 |language=en}}</ref>
| term_start4 = Dec 2014
| term_end4 = Jan 2018
| office5 = President of [[Tripura Pradesh Youth Congress Committee]]<ref name="indiankanoon.org">{{cite web |title=Sri Billal Miah vs The Public Prosecutor |url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/124923339/ |website=indiankanoon.org |access-date=28 February 2022}}</ref><ref name="TPYC President">{{cite web |title=Rediff On The NeT: Dissolution of Congress' Tripura state unit sparks faction feuds |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/mar/05cong.htm |website=www.rediff.com |access-date=28 February 2022}}</ref>
| term_start5 = 1994
| term_end5 = 2002
| party = [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|05|15|df=y}}
| birth_place =
| occupation = Politician
| parents = Maharam Ali (Father)<br /> Sahara Begam (Mother)<ref>{{cite web |title=Sonia Gandhi's letter of condolence. |url=https://candidjourno.com/2022/02/16/rahul-gandhis-letter-of-condolence/ |website=Candid Journo |access-date=27 February 2022}}</ref>
| spouse = Nasreen Sultana
| alma_mater = [[Calcutta University]] <br />[[MBB College]] (B.A Political Science)
}}

'''Billal Miah''' (born 15 May 1963) is an Indian politician from [[Tripura]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Tripura Pradesh Congress continued its protests against the farmer bill 2020. |url=https://tripuranewslive.com/2020/10/11/tripura-pradesh-congress-continued-its-protests-against-the-farmer-bill-2020/ |access-date=27 February 2022 |work=Tripura News Live |date=11 October 2020 |language=en |archive-date=27 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227175042/https://tripuranewslive.com/2020/10/11/tripura-pradesh-congress-continued-its-protests-against-the-farmer-bill-2020/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bureau |first=EastMojo News |date=2019-01-05 |title=Tripura: High Court 'discharges' former MLA Billal Miah |url=http://www.eastmojo.com/news/2019/01/05/tripura-high-court-discharges-former-mla-billal-miah/ |access-date=2022-02-26 |website=EastMojo |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Desk |first1=India TV News |title=Ex-Tripura CM, son figure in Congress list for Tripura assembly polls |url=https://www.indiatvnews.com/politics/national/ex-tripura-cm-son-congress-list-tripura-assembly-polls-7683.html |access-date=27 February 2022 |work=www.indiatvnews.com |date=12 January 2013 |language=en}}</ref> He is a former member of the [[Tripura Legislative Assembly]] from the [[Boxanagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]], having first been elected in the 1988 and 1998 elections.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tripura Assembly since 1963 |url=http://tripuraassembly.nic.in/assembly%20since%201963.pdf |website= |access-date=28 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231040820/http://tripuraassembly.nic.in/assembly%20since%201963.pdf |archive-date=31 December 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was the working President of [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]]<ref name="uniindia.net">{{cite news |title=AICC appoints new president in Tripura |url=http://www.uniindia.net/~/aicc-appoints-new-president-in-tripura/States/news/2515928.html |access-date=27 February 2022 |agency=United News of India}}</ref> before leaving INC on 24th Aug 2023.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Singh |first=Bikash |date=2023-08-24 |title=Congress Working President and former Tripura minister Billal Mia joins BJP |work=The Economic Times |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/congress-working-president-and-former-tripura-minister-billal-mia-joins-bjp/articleshow/103030786.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2023-08-25 |issn=0013-0389}}</ref> He was welcomed in BJP by Hon'ble CM Prof. Dr Manik Saha in Presence of Dr Mahesh Sharma, MP.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2023-08-25 |title=Tripura ex-minister Billal Miah joins BJP, says saffron party gives more space to Muslims than Cong |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/tripura-billal-miah-joins-bjp-8908451/ |access-date=2023-08-25 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Billal Miah was born on 15 May 1960 in Sonamura to Maharam Ali and Sahara Begam. He did his schooling from [[NCI Institution]], [[Sonamura]], [[Tripura]] in 1981 and joined, [[University of Calcutta]] for further studies. He did his graduation in 1985 in political science from MBB college. Billal Miah married Nasreen Sultana on 16 December 1991. They have a son, Sabbir Ahammed Belali, and a daughter, Nusrat Jahan Sultana.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|title= BILLAL MIA(Criminal & Asset Declaration)|url=https://myneta.info/tripura2018/candidate.php?candidate_id=5923 | access-date=27 February 2022|website=Myneta.info}}</ref>

==Political career==

Billal Miah entered politics in 1979, as NSUI General Secretary, [[Sonamura]] Sub division. He served as Tripura Pradesh Youth Congress President, Sonamura Sub Division in 1983, State Youth Congress secretary 1985. In 1988, from [[Boxanagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)]], Billa Miah was elected to the [[Tripura Legislative Assembly]].<ref name="Tripura MLA 1988-1993">{{cite news |title=Tripura Assembly Election Results in 1988 |url=https://www.elections.in/tripura/assembly-constituencies/1988-election-results.html |access-date=28 February 2022 |work=www.elections.in}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tripura Assembly since 1963 |url=http://tripuraassembly.nic.in/assembly%20since%201963.pdf |website= |access-date=28 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231040820/http://tripuraassembly.nic.in/assembly%20since%201963.pdf |archive-date=31 December 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was appointed Minister of State for Agriculture, Fishery and Animal Resources, Planning Coordination, Flood Control. In 1991 he was appointed Cabinet Minister for Animal Resources, Labour and Employment Statistics.

In 1998, he was again elected as MLA from [[Boxanagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Boxanagar]].<ref name="Tripura MLA 1998-2002">{{cite news |title=Tripura Assembly Election Results in 1998 |url=https://www.elections.in/tripura/assembly-constituencies/1998-election-results.html |access-date=28 February 2022 |work=www.elections.in}}</ref>

From 1998 to Aug 2023, the positions held by him in [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]] include:
* Working President of [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Congress appoints new Tripura party President, 5 Working Presidents |url=https://www.dtnext.in/News/National/2021/09/24222514/1319754/Congress-appoints-new-Tripura-party-President-5-Working-.vpf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021104051/https://www.dtnext.in/News/National/2021/09/24222514/1319754/Congress-appoints-new-Tripura-party-President-5-Working-.vpf |url-status=dead |archive-date=21 October 2021 |access-date=27 February 2022 |work=dtNext.in |date=24 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
* Former President of [[Tripura Pradesh Youth Congress Committee]]<ref name="indiankanoon.org">{{cite web |title=Sri Billal Miah vs The Public Prosecutor |url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/124923339/ |website=indiankanoon.org |access-date=28 February 2022}}</ref><ref name="TPYC President">{{cite web |title=Rediff On The NeT: Dissolution of Congress' Tripura state unit sparks faction feuds |url=http://www.rediff.com/news/mar/05cong.htm |website=www.rediff.com |access-date=28 February 2022}}</ref>
* Former [[General Secretary]] of [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]]
* Former Vice President of [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]]
* Former Chairman of [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]] Minority Department, 2014.<ref name="Zee News">{{cite news |title=Congress names new heads for minority departments of states |url=https://zeenews.india.com/news/india/congress-names-new-heads-for-minority-departments-of-states_1513902.html |access-date=28 February 2022 |work=Zee News |date=13 December 2014 |language=en}}</ref>
* Former Sonamura District Congress President,<ref>{{cite web |title=Press Release INC |url=https://cdn.inc.in/press_releas/pdf_documents/000/003/127/original/Press_20Releae_20on_20Tripura_20PCC_2014-10-2016.pdf?1505905431 |website=cdn.inc.in |access-date=27 February 2022 |archive-date=27 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227180546/https://cdn.inc.in/press_releas/pdf_documents/000/003/127/original/Press_20Releae_20on_20Tripura_20PCC_2014-10-2016.pdf?1505905431 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Tripura Pradesh Congress Committee]]
On 25th Aug 2023 he was welcomed in BJP by Hon'ble CM Prof. Dr Manik Saha in Presence of Dr Mahesh Sharma, MP.<ref name=":0" /> On 30th Dec 2023, he was appointed as the State President of Minority Morcha BJP, Tripura Pradesh<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reshuffle in Tripura BJP: Mimi Majumder to lead Mahila Morcha, Sushanta Deb named youth wing president |url=https://tripuratimes.com/ttimes/reshuffle-in-tripura-bjp-mimi-majumder-to-lead-mahila-morcha-sushanta-deb-named-youth-wing-president-13443.html |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=tripuratimes.com |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Miah, Billal}}
[[Category:1960 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian National Congress politicians from Tripura]]
[[Category:Tripura MLAs 1998–2003]]
[[Category:Tripura MLAs 1988–1993]]
[[Category:People from Sipahijala district]]

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