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Firhad Hakim (born 1 January 1959) is an Indian politician serving as the current and 38th Mayor of Kolkata. [3] He is also serving as Cabinet Minister of Urban Development and Municipal Affairs and Housing, Government of West Bengal. He is a MLA of the Trinamool Congress party from Kolkata Port.
Firhad Hakim was elected as the mayor of Kolkata. [6] In this election, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 3 seats, Left Front won 2 seats ( CPI and CPI(M) won 1 seat each), Indian National Congress (INC) won 2 seats and independent candidates won 3 seats.
Firhad Hakim: 22 November 2018 Incumbent: 6 years, 50 days References This page was last edited on 30 December 2024, at 00:45 (UTC). Text is available under ...
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In early February 2023, the then Urban Development Minister, Firhad Hakim, had said that New Town cannot remain under a panchayat, while acknowledging that parts of the township had been included within a panchayat area as a result of "some error". He also promised that the "error" would be rectified before the upcoming panchayat polls. [26]
The Howrah Planetarium and Astronomical Research Centre was officially inaugurated in October 2022 by the Minister of Public Works and Urban Development, Firhad Hakim. [3] It opened to public on 2 December 2022.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sent Minister Firhad Hakim and local MLA and deputy Speaker Ashish Banerjee to the trouble spot. Opposition parties like CPI(M), BJP and Congress protested against the murder. CPI(M) state secretary Mohammad Salim described the SIT set up by the government as "suppression of investigation and truth". [5]
Majumder was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the late 1990s. In 2000, he was elected as a corporator from Ward 96 and was re-elected in 2005 and 2015. [6] He later joined the Trinamool Congress and was re-elected as a ward corporator in the 2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election.