Lone woman Assam CM Syeda Taimur passes away

Guwahati: Assam’s only woman Chief Minister Syeda Anwara Taimur, Aligarh Muslim University alumni and lecturer in Economics in 1956, passed away on Monday. Taimur was also the lone Muslim chief minister of the state.
Taimur was 83. She died of cardiac arrest in Australia, her family sources said. The former chief minister was staying in Australia with her son for the past few years, the sources said.
Taimur had helmed a Congress government in Assam from December 6, 1980 to June 30, 1981 when her term ended with the state being put under Presidents rule for six months.
She was later the PWD and agriculture minister of the state from 1983 to 1985. Elected four times to the state Assembly in 1972, 1978, 1983 and 1991, Taimur was a Rajya Sabha member in 1988.
She quit the Congress and joined the AIDUF IN 2011.
Before her foray into politics, the Aligarh Muslim University alumni was lecturer in Economics in Debicharan Barua Girls College at Jorhat in 1956.