Kolkata, October 7, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) founder and legislator Humayun Kabir on Wednesday said he would not attend the West Bengal Assembly or participate in any session of the House as long as Suvendu Adhikari remains Chief Minister.
Kabir also indicated that he could consider retiring from active politics and said he would seek the opinion of people in his Naoda Assembly constituency in Murshidabad before taking any decision on his MLA post.
“I will not go to the West Bengal Assembly and will also not attend any session of the House as long as Suvendu Adhikari is the Chief Minister of the state. For that, I will also apologise to the people of Naoda Assembly Constituency. If necessary, I will take voluntary retirement from my political life,” Kabir told reporters.
In the Assembly elections held earlier this year, Kabir was elected from both Naoda and Rejinagar constituencies in Murshidabad. He later retained Naoda and resigned from Rejinagar, where a bypoll was held on Tuesday.
Kabir was detained at Rejinagar police station for around 12 hours on Tuesday while polling was underway. He was accused of moving between polling booths without authorisation, influencing voters, intimidating police personnel and allegedly holding an on-duty police officer by the collar. His son, Golam Nabi Azad, is the AJUP candidate in the Rejinagar bypoll.
Speaking a day after his release, Kabir questioned the circumstances of his detention and criticised the police action.
“Is this a democratic system where a police sub-inspector can forcibly pick up an MLA and detain him for 12 hours without any specific reason?” he asked, alleging that the police under Adhikari had “tortured” people in Rejinagar over the past two months.
Kabir said he would continue working for the people of Naoda but would stay away from the Assembly.
He said he would not attend meetings of the Assembly’s minority affairs committee, house committee or business advisory committee, nor any all-party meeting or gathering convened by the Speaker. He added that his seat, number 88, would remain vacant.
Kabir also said he would consult the people of Naoda in the coming days. If they advised him to give up his MLA post, he said he would consider doing so, adding that he could also leave active politics if they wanted him to.
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