Candidates for 21 seats were announced on Wednesday by Humayun Kabir in Kolkata for his newly launched Aam Janata Unnayan Party(AJUP). The remaining candidates will be announced on Sunday. The party will fight from 182 seats in total of the 294 Assembly seats of West Bengal. Kabir will contest from Rejinagar and Naoda constituencies in Mushidabad district.
“I will win more than 100 seats.” Said founder of AJUP Humayun Kabir. “I am taking on the captainship for the A team for the party, the results should definitely show. I will win maximum seats.”
Kabir is the incumbent Bharatpur MLA who won on a Trinamool Congress (TMC) ticket in the 2021 Assembly elections, but defied the party leadership by laying the foundation stone for the Babri Masjid in Murshidabad district on December 6, 2025 in the presence of lakhs of people. BJP called Kabir the B-team of TMC, though the ruling party suspended him.
“Not just in Malda and Murshidabad, the candidates across Bengal will win many seats.” Added Kabir.
Kabir is undeterred when he is often accused of indulging in religious politics. “The Ram temple is built(in Ayodhya by BJP), Jagannath Dham(In Digha by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee). If I build a mosque, it is religious politics? Who is saying this? If they do it, it is constitutional, if I do it, it is unconstitutional,” added the Bharatpur MLA.
