New Delhi, March 20 -- Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026, suspended TMC leader Humayun Kabir challenged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and said Bengal, for the first time since Independence, may see either a Muslim chief minister or a deputy CM.

"If our party forms the government, then there will be a Muslim chief minister for the first time," Humayun Kabir, who has floated the Am Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP), told news agency PTI in a recent interview.

Kabir claimed that his outfit would contest 182 seats in alliance with the AIMIM and could emerge as a decisive player in government formation if the verdict produces a fractured mandate.

"Even if we do not form the government, we will bring such numbers that no government...