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Misbahul Islam Laskar

Indian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ107410218 ↗
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Misbahul Islam Laskar is an Indian politician from Assam. He was elected to the Assam Legislative Assembly from Barkhola in the 2021 Assam Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Indian National Congress. He previously served as an MLA of the Assam Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2006. He served as the Minister of Cooperation and Tourism from 2001 to 2006 in Tarun Gogoi's first cabinet. He also served as the chairman of Assam Minority Development Board.

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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 Apr 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107410218. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021, 1996, 2006 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Misbahul Islam 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.