Mausam Noor after she won the Sujapur byelection

Malda, Nov. 17: One of the youngest MPs from Bengal, 27-year-old Mausam Benazir Noor, is all set to wed Mirza Kayesh Begg, a member of the Bar Association of Calcutta High Court, on December 5.

The wedding ceremony will be held at the Kotwali residence of the Khan Chowdhurys, Mausam’s uncles. The guest list at the Calcutta reception includes Manmohan Singh as well as Mamata Banerjee.

The newly elected Congress MLA from Sujapur, Abu Naser Khan Chowdhury, said his niece broke the news to the family today.

“Mausam told us about her marriage plans today and the entire family is very happy, more so because the wedding will be held at Kotwali. We are arranging a reception at our Beck Bagan residence in Calcutta on December 13, where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi (Congress president), Rahul Gandhi and other dignitaries will be invited,” Abu Naser said over the phone from Calcutta. He said PCC president and Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee also featured in the VIP guest list for the Calcutta reception.

Mausam, a lawyer, had won the Sujapur Assembly seat in December, following a byelection after the death of her mother Ruby Noor, who had been the Congress MLA. Ruby Noor was the sister of the late Congress veteran and railway minister A.B.A. Ghani Khan Chowdhury.

Barely three months after she became the MLA, Mausam contested the Lok Sabha polls from North Malda and won.

According to sources at Kotwali, groom Kayesh Begg is from Asansol. His father is also a lawyer and the mother a schoolteacher. The sources said Mausam and Kayesh Begg had known each other for some time.

“He had also accompanied her at her campaigns during the Lok Sabha elections and it was then that we got to realise that something was on between the two. However, both of them chose to remain silent till now,” said a Kotwali family member.

Kayesh Begg, when contacted in Calcutta on his cellphone, said he met Mausam in 2004 while they were studying LLB in Calcutta University. “I practise under my senior at the high court and I will come to Malda on December 5,” was all that Begg said.

Mausam is the youngest of Ruby Noor’s three daughters. Her eldest sister Sonia is a doctor and practises along with her husband in England. The marriage of Syeda Noor, the other sister, has also been fixed, but the family is reluctant to reveal the prospective groom’s name.

Abu Naser said a wedding was being held after decades at the Kotwali. “My late brother, A.B.A. Ghani Khan Chowdury, had renovated our ancestral Kotwali home way back in 1982, and since then there has been no weddings there. Sonia’s wedding took place in Calcutta and we are making grand arrangements for Mausam’s at Kotwali,” said Abu Naser, without divulging further details.

The bride was incommunicado with her mobile phone switched off.