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Mohammad Aftab Alam ( ne, मोहम्मद अफताब आलम ) is a Nepali politician from the
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and a suspended member of the
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of the
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. He was a member of the first constituent assembly as well. He is also a former Minister for Labour and Transport Management.


Career

Alam was elected from Rautahat-2 to the
Pratinidhi Sabha The Pratinidhi (the Viceroy) was an important member of the ministry in the Maratha Empire. The title of ''Pratinidhi'' means ''the representative of the King,'' and such officials were entitled to sign and seal papers and to issue orders in the ab ...
in the 1999 election and the 2008 Constituent Assembly election but was defeated in the 2013 election from the same constituency. Alam was elected to parliament in the 2017 legislative election from
Rautahat Rautahat is a village development committee in Saptari District in the Sagarmatha Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2252 people living in 468 individual households. Jung Bahadur Rana ...
-2 constituency, as a candidate from
Nepali Congress The Nepali Congress ( ne, नेपाली कांग्रेस ; abbr. NC) is the largest social democratic political party in Nepal. As per the results of recent local election, ''Nepali Congress'' stands as the single largest party o ...
. He defeated his nearest rival Kiran Kumar Shah by acquiring 18,833 votes to Shah's 16,865. Following his election to parliament, he was appointed a member of the House Industry, Commerce, Labour and Consumer Interest Committee.


Arrest

Alam was arrested from Rajapur municipality-1, Rautahat, on 13 October 2019 on charges of murder and causing explosion for his alleged involvement in the 9 April 2008 bomb blast in Rautahat and the subsequent murders of the injured. According to a report by ''
The Himalayan Times ''The Himalayan Times'' is an English-language broadsheet newspaper published and distributed daily in Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकता ...
'', it has been alleged that Alam had employed several people, tasked with making bombs to be used for capturing booths in the 2008 constituent assembly elections. When a bomb went off in a massive explosion that injured as many as 18 people, Alam allegedly dumped them at a brick kiln, killing them. ''República'', however, reported that 14 people died in the blast while those and an additional eight injured were dumped in the furnace of the brick kiln murdering the injured and destroying evidence. According to ''
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'', at least two had died in the initial explosion and as many as two dozen injured were dumped alive into the brick furnace. He was suspended from his position in the House of Representatives following his arrest. A single bench of Judge Deepak Dhakal, Rautahat District Court, denied him bail on 15 November 2019, after a preliminary hearing where Alam was allowed to make a statement. Lawyers of Alam had argued that there was no such bomb explosion in Rautahat in 2008, that Alam was completely innocent, and was being framed by the government with a fake list of victims.


References

Living people Nepali Congress politicians from Madhesh Province People from Rautahat District 21st-century Nepalese people Nepal MPs 2017–2022 Nepal MPs 1994–1999 Nepal MPs 1999–2002 Members of the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly 1962 births {{Province2NP-politician-stub