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Rais Shaikh
Rais Kasam Shaikh (born 1 June 1974) is an Indian politician from Mumbai, India. He is a 2 term member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing the constituency of Bhiwandi East. He has been the Municipal Councilor and also the Group Leader of the Samajwadi Party. He contested and won the BMC elections from Govandi in 2012 and Nagpada in 2017. Shaikh was also amongst the top 10 corporators in Mumbai as per a survey by Mumbai Mirror.
In 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election Rais Shaikh won the Bhiwandi East seat by 45,133 votes. He defeated Rupesh Laxman Mhatre of Shiv Sena and Santosh Shetty of Congress.
In the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, Rais Shaikh was re-elected from the Bhiwandi East constituency, securing 119,687 votes (62.44%) and defeating Shiv Sena candidate Santosh Shetty by a margin of 52,015 votes. This marked his second consecutive term as MLA from the constituency.
Rais Shaikh was born on 1 June 1974 in the Mandvi suburb of Mumbai, Maharashtra, into a middle-class family. His father, Kasam Shaikh, and mother, Zainab Shaikh, raised seven sons, with Rais being the second youngest. He completed his early education at Dawoodbhoy Fazalbhoy High School and pursued higher studies at Lala Lajpatrai College in Mumbai. He later graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, affiliated with the University of Mumbai.
Rais started his career as a computer teacher and later worked at a printing press in Mumbai soon after completing his graduation. Between 2002-07, he was based in Dubai and trying to build a career there. In his free time, he would do translation work for NGOs based in Mumbai. That served as an awakening for him. He moved back to India and decided to work towards the betterment of society as an activist.
Rais embarked upon his political career in the year 2007 by joining the Samajwadi Party.
Shaikh has worked to maintain and construct dilapidated roads, resolve water shortage problems not only in his ward but the entire area of Govandi. He has multiple goals that include providing digital classrooms to all schools, setting up technology to enable virtual autopsies in post-mortem centers and has proposed to provide online birth and death certificates and underground parking below open spaces in South Mumbai. Shaikh's Ahtesaab Foundation has provided the first digital classroom of this city to a School in Govandi. He believes that there is a need to do something about the traffic congestion in Mumbai and hence suggested to start Mini Bus services. He has also presented a program to improve slum infrastructure.
An English medium school run by BMC with support from NGO Ahtesaab to serve the growing needs of parents in the area who wanted to send their children to an English medium school. He introduced Digital Learning where he developed 2 classrooms each in Govandi and Madanpura as modern digital classrooms. He also proposed the Semi English format of Education in BMC and introduced an all-English School by the name of Umar Rajjab Public School.
Rais Shaikh
Rais Kasam Shaikh (born 1 June 1974) is an Indian politician from Mumbai, India. He is a 2 term member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing the constituency of Bhiwandi East. He has been the Municipal Councilor and also the Group Leader of the Samajwadi Party. He contested and won the BMC elections from Govandi in 2012 and Nagpada in 2017. Shaikh was also amongst the top 10 corporators in Mumbai as per a survey by Mumbai Mirror.
In 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election Rais Shaikh won the Bhiwandi East seat by 45,133 votes. He defeated Rupesh Laxman Mhatre of Shiv Sena and Santosh Shetty of Congress.
In the 2024 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election, Rais Shaikh was re-elected from the Bhiwandi East constituency, securing 119,687 votes (62.44%) and defeating Shiv Sena candidate Santosh Shetty by a margin of 52,015 votes. This marked his second consecutive term as MLA from the constituency.
Rais Shaikh was born on 1 June 1974 in the Mandvi suburb of Mumbai, Maharashtra, into a middle-class family. His father, Kasam Shaikh, and mother, Zainab Shaikh, raised seven sons, with Rais being the second youngest. He completed his early education at Dawoodbhoy Fazalbhoy High School and pursued higher studies at Lala Lajpatrai College in Mumbai. He later graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, affiliated with the University of Mumbai.
Rais started his career as a computer teacher and later worked at a printing press in Mumbai soon after completing his graduation. Between 2002-07, he was based in Dubai and trying to build a career there. In his free time, he would do translation work for NGOs based in Mumbai. That served as an awakening for him. He moved back to India and decided to work towards the betterment of society as an activist.
Rais embarked upon his political career in the year 2007 by joining the Samajwadi Party.
Shaikh has worked to maintain and construct dilapidated roads, resolve water shortage problems not only in his ward but the entire area of Govandi. He has multiple goals that include providing digital classrooms to all schools, setting up technology to enable virtual autopsies in post-mortem centers and has proposed to provide online birth and death certificates and underground parking below open spaces in South Mumbai. Shaikh's Ahtesaab Foundation has provided the first digital classroom of this city to a School in Govandi. He believes that there is a need to do something about the traffic congestion in Mumbai and hence suggested to start Mini Bus services. He has also presented a program to improve slum infrastructure.
An English medium school run by BMC with support from NGO Ahtesaab to serve the growing needs of parents in the area who wanted to send their children to an English medium school. He introduced Digital Learning where he developed 2 classrooms each in Govandi and Madanpura as modern digital classrooms. He also proposed the Semi English format of Education in BMC and introduced an all-English School by the name of Umar Rajjab Public School.