Who is Aminul Haque Laskar?

Aminul Haque Laskar is a politician from the Sonai constituency in Assam, the only Muslim candidate elected on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket in the state Legislative Assembly in 2016.

 

Besides BJP, Laskar had the support of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and Bodo People’s Front, the two parties who were partners in the BJP-led ruling coalition in Assam. On July 31, 2019, he was elected unopposed as the Deputy Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly.

The legislator came to the fore in 2018 when he hit headlines after receiving a letter from an organisation to quit BJP within a fortnight