In the Indian general elections, 2009, her husband was in jail serving life imprisonment for kidnapping and murder in 2007 during these period Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav gave ticket to Mohammad Shahabuddin's wife Heena Shahab in 2009, 2014 and 2019 consecutive years. Shahab had no political experience She had spent most of her years indoors, immersed in the scriptures and household chores. until then had led a devout burqa-clad life, contested from her husband's Siwan Lok Sabha constituency as a candidate of RJD political party.