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Anwar Hussain Laskar

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionNov 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ27734350 ↗
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Anwar Hussain Laskar (28 December 1964 – 18 July 2022), also known as Rana Bhai, was an Indian politician and lawmaker.

He was a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2006, elected from Sonai. He was a member of Asom Gana Parishad and later the Samajwadi Party.

He died from post COVID-19 complications in 2022.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Anwar Hussain Laskar” as indian politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 2022, 1996, 2006—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Anwar, Hussain and Laskar can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as indian politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q27734350. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1964, 2022, 1996 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anwar Hussain Laskar” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.