Member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Incumbent
Assumed office May 2023
Preceded by
Amanda Chadderton
Member of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council for St Mary's
In office 4 May 2023 –
Previous posts
Leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
In office 19 May 2021 – 5 May 2022
Preceded by
Sean Fielding
Succeeded by
Amanda Chadderton
Member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority
In office May 2021 – 5 May 2022
Member of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council for Chadderton South
In office 3 May 2018 – 5 May 2022
Personal details
Born
September 1978 (age 45)
Political party
Labour
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Arooj Shah is a British Labour politician and since May 2023 is the leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council in Greater Manchester, a position she also previously held between 2021 and 2022. As leader she is a member of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and is the combined authority's portfolio lead for Equalities and Communities.[2] She was the first Muslim woman to take charge of a council in the north of England.[3]
First elected to the council in 2012, she was the councillor for the Chadderton South ward. She was elected as leader of the council in May 2021 after her predecessor Sean Fielding lost his seat in that year's election. Shah lost her seat in 2022 being beaten by Robert Barnes the Conservative candidate. She later re-gained a seat on the council at the 2023 election, topping the poll in the St Mary's ward.[4] Following the election, at which incumbent leader Amanda Chadderton was defeated, Shah was elected to lead the council again.[5]
^"Arooj SHAH personal appointments". Retrieved 15 May 2022. Date of birth: September 1978
^"Councillor Arooj Shah". Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
^"Oldham councillors choose first female Muslim leader". BBC News. 11 May 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
^"Big Tory losses and another Oldham leader deposed: your essential local elections briefing". The Mill. 6 May 2023. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
^"New Oldham council leader elected - the fourth in three years". Manchester Evening News. 9 May 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.
AroojShah is a British Labour politician and since May 2023 is the leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council in Greater Manchester, a position she...
council is controlled by the Labour Party, the leader of the council is AroojShah who has been in post since May 2023. The largest opposition party is the...
27/60 councillors belonging to the party. The local Labour Party leader, AroojShah, denied that the conflict in Gaza was a major reason for Labour's loss...
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becoming the town's third leader in just over a year after her predecessor AroojShah lost her seat in that year's election after just one year in post. At...
Sherry Shah is a Pakistan actress, model and producer. She is known for her roles in dramas Mr. Shamim, Jinnah Ke Naam, Yeh Zindagi Hai and Meri Behan...
Justinas Balsys 4:47 Short Film United Kingdom Buckett's Brand New Bar AroojShah 10:54 Short Film United Kingdom Three Baths Rafael De Leon Jr. 6:48 Short...
Democrats. After Sean Fielding's defeat, the council's deputy leader AroojShah was elected leader. She promised to spend more on street cleaning and...
Labour 23 May 2018 9 May 2021 AroojShah Labour 19 May 2021 8 May 2022 Amanda Chadderton Labour 25 May 2022 9 May 2023 AroojShah Labour 9 May 2023 Incumbent...
St. Mary's Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour AroojShah 2,529 58.4 -7.1 Liberal Democrats Mohammed Masud 1,559 36.0 +7.1 Green Miranda Meadowcroft 144...
people like Amjad, who returned to Jhang and joined a weekly newspaper named Arooj. He remained as an editor of the newspaper until 1939 and regularly published...
Chadderton South Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour AroojShah 967 47 Conservative Robert Barnes 623 30 Independent Frank Rothwell 288 14 Green Melodey...
Baloch, Imran Arooj, Nirvaan Nadeem, Kamran Mujahid and Farah Tufail and Jamil Fakhri in the leading cast. Sanam Baloch as Faiza Ali Shah Nirvaan Nadeem...
select the "World" category as the genre under the search feature. Specific "Arooj Aftab's "Mohabbat" Wins Best Global Music Performance | 2022 GRAMMYs". "Grammy...
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Independent Aftab Hussain 2,190 49 Labour AroojShah 1,801 40 UKIP Donna Elaine Goodleman 266 6 Conservative David Andrew Atherton...
2023. The nominations were announced on November 10 on a livestream by Arooj Aftab, Vince Gill and Amy Grant, Jimmy Jam, Jon Bon Jovi, Samara Joy, Muni...
Translation. Areej, the youngest of the family, has two elder brothers, Shah Hassan Chaudhary, a cosmetologist in Islamabad, and Muhammad Hussain Chaudhary...
Stereogum. Retrieved February 20, 2024. Monroe, Jazz (April 18, 2024). "Arooj Aftab Announces Album and Tour, Shares Video for New Song". Pitchfork. Retrieved...
(PhD) (in Urdu). Pakistan: National University of Modern Languages. Alam, Arooj. "Time and Temporality in Quran's "Ashab al-Kahf": An inquiry of modern...
Festival, making him only the second person of Pakistani origin (after Arooj Aftab) to perform at the festival. In May 2023, an unreleased single by...
continues to serve as a role model for young women in Pakistan, artists Arooj Aftab,Shae Gill and Momina Mustehsan have cited Kiani as an inspiration...
(vice-captain) Aamir Jamal Arafat Minhas Arshad Iqbal Asif Ali Haider Ali Khushdil Shah Mirza Tahir Baig Mohammad Hasnain Muhammad Akhlaq (wk) Rohail Nazir Shahnawaz...
Black Country, New Road, Jenny Hval, Arab Strap, Valerie June, Alex G, Arooj Aftab, Viagra Boys, Mdou Moctar, Orchestra Baobab, The Murder Capital, Witch...
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