Alamgir Alam (born 1950) is an Indian politician from Jharkhand. He is a four-term MLA for Pakur Assembly constituency representing the

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in the Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha. He was elected to the

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in the 2000, 2005, 2014 and 2019 elections. He also served as the

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of the Jharkhand assembly between 20 October 2006, and 12 December 2009.

Early life and education

Alam is from

Pakur Pakur (previously known as ''Pakaur'') is a town with a nagar palika in the Pakur subdivision of the Pakur district, Jharkhand state, India. History Pakur was earlier a Sub-Division of Santhal Parganas district of Bihar. It was upgraded to the ...

, Pakur District, Jharkhand. He is the son of Sanaul Haque. He completed his B.Sc. in 1974 at Sahibganj College, which is affiliated with Bhagalpur University.

Career

Alam retained his seat in the

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, defeating Akil Akhtar in 2009 elections. After the elections, in which Congress emerged victorious in coalition with JMM and

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, Alam was elected as the leader of the Congress Legislature Party. On 29 December 2019, Alam was among the initial four members sworn into the state Cabinet along with chief minister

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and Satyanand Bhokta. Earlier, he first became an MLA winning the

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and retained the Pakur seat for the first time in the newly formed Jharkhand state in the

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defeating Beni Prasad Gupta of the BJP, by a margin of 25,736 votes. Later, he won again in the

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and became a four time MLA winning in 2019. In between, he lost the

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. He was arrested by the ED on alleged charges in a money laundering case.

References

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