Mahbub Alam (politician)

Mahbub Alam (born 1956/1957[1]) is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Central Committee as well as the Bihar State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation.[2][3] He has represented the Barsoi and Balrampur constituencies in the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Since 1994, he has been arrested numerous times on accusations of murder, and was incarcerated for 17 months in the late 2000s.

Mahbub Alam
Bihar Legislative Assembly
Assumed office
2015
ConstituencyBalrampur
Bihar Legislative Assembly
In office
2000 – October 2005
Preceded byDulal Chandra Goswami
Succeeded byMunnaf Alam
ConstituencyBarsoi
Personal details
Born1978 (age 44–45)
NationalityIndian
Political partyCommunist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation

Political career

Alam, an agriculturist, studied up to Class XII.[1] He contested the Barsoi seat in the 1985 Bihar Legislative Assembly election as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate, finishing in second place with 14,189 votes (20.59%).[4]

He again contested the Barsoi seat in the 1990 Bihar Legislative Assembly election as an independent, finishing in second place with 15,495 votes (17.94%).[5]

Barsoi legislator

Alam won the Barsoi seat in the 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, standing as a CPI(ML) Liberation candidate.[6] He got 62,644 votes (51.83%).[7]

He retained the Barsoi seat in the February 2005 Bihar legislative election, winning 45,451 votes.[8] However, ahead of the subsequent October 2005 Bihar Legislative Assembly election Alam was barred from contesting as his name had been deleted from the voters' list.[6] CPI(ML) Liberation fielded Alam's younger brother Munaf Alam instead, who won the seat.[6]

2009–2014 electoral campaigns

CPI(ML) Liberation fielded Alam as its candidate in Katihar Lok Saba seat in the 2009 parliamentary election.[9] He obtained 32,035 votes (4.42%).[10]

The Barsoi constituency was abolished ahead of the 2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, and the Balrampur constituency was created in its stead. Alam finished in second place in Balrampur with 45,432 votes (30.85%).[11][12]

Alam filed his nomination papers for the Katihar Lok Sabha seat in the 2014 parliamentary election but was arrested right after the filing.[13] He obtained 9,461 votes (0.97%) in the election.[14]

2015 Bihar election

Ahead of the 2015 Bihar Legislative Assembly election Alam declared 2,296,000 Indian rupees in assets and 13 criminal cases against him.[1] Out of the 13 cases, he declared three murder charges filed against him.[15] Alam won the seat.[16]

2020 Assembly Election

In the 2020 assembly election, Alam won Balrampur Legislative Assembly seat with a 53,597 vote margin to his nearest rival Barun Kumar Jha of Vikashsheel Insaan Party (VIP). Alam got 104,489 votes, Jha got 50,892 Votes.[17]

Arrests

Alam was arrested in 1994 for the killing of the spouse of a politician from Barsoi.[6] He was released from prison the following year.[6]

On September 1, 2007 Alam was arrested by plainclothes police at a meeting in Shankula, after a long period as a fugitive from the law.[18][6] According to police, he was wanted in connection with numerous cases of murders, rioting, and other infractions of the Arms Act.[6] According to CPI(ML) Liberation, Alam had been falsely framed for murder.[18] A bandh (shutdown) was organized in the Barsoi bloc to protest the arrest and demonstrations were held across the state demanding his release.[18] He was later released on bail after 17 months of incarceration.[13][19]

Police arrested Alam in connection with a murder charge just after he filed his nomination papers for the Katihar Lok Sabha seat in the 2014 parliamentary election.[13]

On July 30, 2016, Mahbub Alam was booked for slapping a branch manager of bank in Bihar's Katihar district.[20]

References
  1. NDTV Elections. Bihar Candidates: Phase 5
  2. Liberation. Rural Poor Turn Out in Massive CPI(ML) Rally at Patna
  3. The Hindu. CPI-ML has bagged two seats so far
  4. Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1985 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR
  5. Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 1990 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR
  6. Prasad, Bhuvaneshwar (3 September 2007). "Fugitive ex-MLA held". The Times of India.
  7. Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2000 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR
  8. Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2005 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR
  9. Paul Wallace; Ramashray Roy (5 May 2011). India's 2009 Elections: Coalition Politics, Party Competition and Congress Continuity. SAGE Publications. p. 325. ISBN 978-81-321-0774-3.
  10. Election Commission of India. 25 – Constituency wise detailed result
  11. Zee News. BIHAR ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2015 RESULTS
  12. Election Commission of India. STATISTICAL REPORT ON GENERAL ELECTION, 2010 TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF BIHAR
  13. "CPI(ML) candidate arrested in Bihar". Zee News. 4 April 2014. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  14. Election Commission of India. 33 – Constituency wise detailed result
  15. OneIndia. Bihar polls: 5th phase has 254 candidates with pending criminal cases
  16. Election Commission of India. 65 – Balrampur
  17. "Highest victory margin to lowest assets, old struggles to new faces: CPI (M-L) in Bihar". Indian Express. Retrieved 17 November 2020.
  18. "Angry Protests against arrest of popular mass leader and former MLA Comrade Mahbub Alam". ML Update. 25 September 2007.
  19. "CPI(ML) at the Polls: A Preview". Liberation. 9 April 2009. Archived from the original on 15 June 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  20. "Bihar MLA Mehboob Alam booked for slapping Bank Official". The Economic Times. PTI. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
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