Mahbub Alam (politician)

Mahbub Alam (born 1956/1957) is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Central Committee as well as the Bihar State Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation. He has represented the Barsoi and Balrampur constituencies in the Bihar Legislative Assembly. Since 1994, he has been arrested numerous times on accusations of murder, and was incarcerated for 17 months in the late 2000s.

Alam, an agriculturist, studied up to Class XII. He contested the Barsoi seat in the 1985 Bihar Legislative Assembly election as a Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate, finishing in second place with 14,189 votes (20.59%).

He contested the Barsoi seat in the 1990 Bihar Legislative Assembly election as an independent, finishing in second place with 15,495 votes (17.94%).

Alam won the Barsoi seat in the 2000 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, standing as a CPI(ML) Liberation candidate. He got 62,644 votes (51.83%).

He retained the Barsoi seat in the February 2005 Bihar legislative election, winning 45,451 votes. However, ahead of the subsequent October 2005 Bihar Legislative Assembly election Alam was barred from contesting as his name had been deleted from the voters' list. CPI(ML) Liberation fielded Alam's younger brother Munnaf Alam instead, who won the seat.

CPI(ML) Liberation fielded Alam as its candidate in Katihar Lok Saba seat in the 2009 parliamentary election. He obtained 32,035 votes (4.42%).

The Barsoi constituency was abolished ahead of the 2010 Bihar Legislative Assembly election, and the Balrampur constituency was created in its stead. Alam finished in second place in Balrampur with 45,432 votes (30.85%).

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