Humayun Kabir (AJUP politician)
Indian Politician
Humayun Kabir (born 3 January 1963) is an Indian politician from West Bengal. He is the president of the Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) and a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from the Naoda Assembly constituency. He was elected to the assembly from both Naoda and Rejinagar in the 2026 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election and subsequently vacated the Rejinagar seat.
Kabir previously represented Rejinagar as a member of the Indian National Congress and later served as Minister of State with independent charge of Animal Resources Development in the First Banerjee ministry. He subsequently contested elections as a Trinamool Congress candidate, an independent candidate and a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate, before returning to the Trinamool Congress and winning the Bharatpur seat in 2021.
Political career
Congress and Trinamool Congress
Kabir entered electoral politics as a candidate of the Indian National Congress. In the 2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, he was elected from Rejinagar, a constituency created in the 2011 delimitation.
In 2012, Kabir resigned from the Congress and joined the Trinamool Congress. He was appointed Minister of State for Animal Resources Development with independent charge in the West Bengal government on 21 November 2012.
The Rejinagar seat became vacant following his change of party, and a by-election was held in February 2013.
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