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Jehangir Kabir
Jehangir Kabir was an Indian Bengali politician and trade union leader. Jehangir Kabir was born on 26 April 1910 in Faridpur, East Bengal (now Bangladesh) to Khabeeruddin Ahmed.[1] Indian educationist Humayun Kabir was Jehangir's elder brother.[2] He completed a Bachelor of Laws from Calcutta University.[1] He left the practice of law during the Quit India Movement in 1942, and became a trade union leader.[3] He and his family settled in Calcutta in 1947, the year of the Partition of India.[2] A long-time member of the Indian National Congress party,[4] he represented the Haroa constituency in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[1] In summer 1966, he broke away from Congress, taking many of his co-coreligionists with him, to join the new Bangla Congress party.[4] He became West Bengal's Minister for Planning and Development in Ajoy Mukherjee's United Front ministry.[3] In January 1968, he split from the Bangla Congress and formed the Bangla Jatiya Dal (National Party of Bengal).[3] Kabir died in 1981 in Calcutta.[2] His son Justice Altamas Kabir was the 39th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India,[5] while a daughter Shukla Kabir Sinha is a retired judge of the Calcutta High Court.[6] References
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