Mysuru’s first Muslim woman mayor Tasneem wants cleanest city tag back

The child of a tailor (Munnavar Pasha) and homemaker (Tahseen Banu), Tasneem is a graduate of the city’s Maharani’s Science College for Women.

A mother of two – her elder child, Syeda Rumani, is in Class VIII and the younger one, Syed Uwaiz, a Class II student – Tasneem has lived her entire life in Meena Bazaar area, the ward she represented in MCC as a corporator since 2013. Tasneem entered electoral politics just before MCC polls in March 2013 as a Congress candidate from Ward 26 (Meena Bazaar).

Tasneem made her entry into electoral politics just before the 2013 Mysore Municipal Corporation Elections as Congress candidate from Ward 26 – Meena Bazaar.

As her ward was that year earmarked under Backward Classes (A category) for women, Tasneem replaced her uncle, three-time corporator Alhaj Naseeruddin Babu, as the party’s candidate. She was picked as a candidate again in 2018, but this time on a JD(S) ticket after switching political allegiance as part of a Congress faction that chose to back JD(S) around the time of the Assembly polls.

Tasneem was elected Mayor after she bagged 47 votes out of 70 to win the seat.