Rais Kasam Shaikh was born on 1 June 1974 and is an Indian politician from Mumbai, India.
25 Facts About Rais Shaikh
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Rais Shaikh is a 2 term member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly representing the constituency of Bhiwandi East.
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Rais Shaikh has been the Municipal Councilor and the Group Leader of the Samajwadi Party.
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Rais Shaikh contested and won the BMC elections from Govandi in 2012 and Nagpada in 2017.
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In 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly election Rais Shaikh won the Bhiwandi East seat by 45,133 votes.
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Rais Shaikh defeated Rupesh Laxman Mhatre of Shiv Sena and Santosh Shetty of Congress.
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Rais Shaikh was born on 1 June 1974 in the Mandvi suburb of Mumbai, Maharashtra, into a middle-class family.
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Rais Shaikh completed his early education at Dawoodbhoy Fazalbhoy High School and pursued higher studies at Lala Lajpatrai College in Mumbai.
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Rais Shaikh later graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics, affiliated with the University of Mumbai.
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Rais Shaikh started his career as a computer teacher and later worked at a printing press in Mumbai soon after completing his graduation.
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Rais Shaikh moved back to India and decided to work towards the betterment of society as an activist.
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Rais Shaikh embarked upon his political career in the year 2007 by joining the Samajwadi Party.
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Rais Shaikh has worked to maintain and construct dilapidated roads, resolve water shortage problems not only in his ward but the entire area of Govandi.
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Rais Shaikh 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.
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Rais Shaikh believes that there is a need to do something about the traffic congestion in Mumbai and hence suggested to start Mini Bus services.
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Rais Shaikh has presented a program to improve slum infrastructure.
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Rais Shaikh introduced Digital Learning where he developed 2 classrooms each in Govandi and Madanpura as modern digital classrooms.
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On September 9,2018, Rais Shaikh led a rally with party members and people from his constituency to protest against the illegal sale and consumption of drugs.
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Rais Shaikh asked for a hike in the salaries of corporators in May 2017.
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Rais Shaikh demanded corporators to be paid a salary of Rs.
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Rais Shaikh advocated the implementation of some measures with the help of which the situation can be improved.
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Rais Shaikh has demanded the formation of a monitoring committee for the police budget.
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In May 2019, Rais Shaikh was able to help several families who were living in slums to apply for housing aid from the government.
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Rais Shaikh opposed this and said it was unreasonable and highly discriminatory against one religion.
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Rais Shaikh introduced the concept of a one-rupee clinic in Bhiwandi and initiated a door to door campaign right from the early days of the pandemic hitting the country.