Humayun Kabir seeks alliance with AIMIM, ISF, Left parties, and Congress

Suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir on Sunday (December 7, 2025) spoke of forming a political alliance with the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and the West Bengal-based Indian Secular Front (ISF), ahead of the next West Bengal Assembly election, coming up in 2026.

Mr. Kabir, who grabbed the limelight by laying the ‘foundation stone’ of ‘Babri Mosque’ in Beldanga on December 6, said he had reached out to AIMIM founder Asaduddin Owaisi and invited him to attend the event in West Bengal on December 22, when he would announce the formation of his party.

Mr. Kabir has also invited the Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Congress to join the alliance to “fight against both BJP at the Centre and ruling Trinamool Congress in the State”.

Although they have not yet responded to the Bharatpur MLA’s proposal, the remarks by Mr. Kabir assume significance ahead of the next Assembly election in West Bengal. In the previous Assembly election in 2021, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front and the Congress entered into an electoral alliance with the ISF, but the arrangement failed to make any dent in the TMC’s Muslim support base.The ISF’s Nawsad Siddique was the only MLA to be elected from the grouping.

There are about 90 Assembly seats in West Bengal where the Muslim population is between 42% to 82%, and all these constituencies should elect Muslim MLAs, Mr. Kabir has said. The West Bengal Assembly has 294 seats.

In a related development, Mr. Kabir, who had announced he would resign as an MLA following his suspension from the TMC on December 4, on Sunday said that he was not resigning from the post of MLA. “There is no question of resigning now. The people of the area made me an MLA. The people do not want me to resign. So I am not resigning,” he told media persons.