Alamgir Alam is an Indian politician. He is a four-term MLA for Pakaur constituency in the Jharkhand Vidhan Sabha as a member of the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

. Alam has been elected to the Jharkhand assembly in the 2000, 2004, 2014 and 2019 elections while he lost in the 2009 elections. Alam served as the Speaker of the Jharkhand assembly between 20 October 2006, and 12 December 2009. In the

2019 Jharkhand Legislative Assembly election Legislative Assembly elections were held in Jharkhand, India, from 30 November to 20 December 2019 to elect the 81 members of the 5th Jharkhand Assembly, 5th Jharkhand Legislative Assembly. Results were declared on 23 December 2019. The pre-electi ...

, Alam retained his seat, defeating Akil Akhtar, who had previously held the seat following the 2009 elections. Following the elections in which Congress emerged victorious alongside its coalition partners JMM and

RJD The Rashtriya Janata Dal ( RJD; translation: ''National People's Party'') is an Indian political party, based in the states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Kerala. The party was founded in 1997 by Lalu Prasad Yadav. The party's support base has tradit ...

, Alam was elected 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

Hemant Soren Hemant Soren (born 10 August 1975) is an Indian politician from Jharkhand, who is currently the Chief Minister of Jharkhand. Previously, he had also served as the Chief Minister of Jharkhand from July 2013 to December 2014. He is also the presid ...

Rameshwar Oraon Dr Rameshwar Oraon (born 14 February 1947) is an Indian politician, who is the current Finance Minister of Jharkhand. He was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha. He represented the Lohardaga constituency of Jharkhand and is a member of the Indian ...

and Satyanand Bhokta.

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Indian National Congress politicians from Jharkhand Speakers of the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Jharkhand MLAs 2000–2005 Jharkhand MLAs 2005–2009 Jharkhand MLAs 2014–2019 Jharkhand MLAs 2019–2024 21st-century Indian politicians {{Jharkhand-INC-politician-stub