Ghaziabad: Saba Haider, 42, who originally hails from Uttar Pradesh, has won the U.S. House of Representatives election and become an MP.
General elections were held on the 3rd for all 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and 35 seats in the Senate. In this election, many people of Indian origin won and became MPs. Among them is Saba Haider, who originally hails from Uttar Pradesh. She won from the 84th district of Illinois in the House of Representatives and became an MP.
Who is she?
Saba Haider, from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, completed her schooling at the Holy Child School there. She won a gold medal in wildlife science at Aligarh Muslim University. Her husband is from the Bulandshahr region of Uttar Pradesh. Saba Haider, who lives with her family in Aurora, Illinois, USA, works as a yoga instructor.
In the 2022 election, she ran in the DuPage County local election and lost by a margin of 1,000 votes. She won the local election in 2024. She is now a Democratic Party member of the Illinois 84th district in the House of Representatives.
By winning in a district where white people are the majority, she has earned the distinction of being the constituency’s first South Asian woman MP.
‘Mom... I won...’
In an interview given to the PTI news agency, Shehnaz Haider, the mother of Saba Haider, who lives in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, said, “We did not sleep at all on the night of the day the votes were counted.
The next morning at 6:30, I got a phone call from Saba Haider. She said, ‘Mom... I’ve won.’ At that moment, my happiness knew no bounds. Even at my old age, I got up from my chair and jumped with joy,” she said.