West Bengal MLA Humayun Kabir on Monday floated a new outfit, Janata Unnayan Party, days after he was suspended by the TMC for laying the foundation stone for a Babri-style mosque in Murshidabad district.
Addressing a public meeting in Beladanga, Kabir said his mission is to oust Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from power in the assembly polls, which will be due in less than six months.
“Mamata Banerjee will not be sworn in as chief minister in 2026; she will be the ex-chief minister. She is no longer the same person I knew and is now beyond the reach of the common man,” he claimed.
“Our party will speak for the ‘aam aadmi’ of the state and their upliftment,” he said, adding that he consciously did not retain any remnant of the Congress or the Trinamool while naming the new outfit.
Kabir, the MLA of Bharatpur, named eight candidates that his new party will field in the 2026 assembly elections, and said he would himself contest from Rejinagar and Beldanga, both of which were won by the TMC in 2021.
“I will win from both the seats that I will be contesting from,” he declared, challenging the TMC to defeat him.
He launched his party’s manifesto and said his first preference for poll symbol would be ‘table’, on which he had contested the 2016 state polls as an Independent, provided he receives the Election Commission’s nod for it, while ‘twin roses’ will be his second choice.