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The Mayor of Kolkata is the chief executive of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, one of the civic authorities in the Indian city of Kolkata. He is the First Citizen of the city of Kolkata. There have been 38 mayors of Kolkata in total till now since first election in 1924. [citation needed]
The state government passed the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (Second Amendment) Bill, 2018. This allows a candidate who is not a member of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to be appointed mayor of the city, provided they are elected to the same within a period of six months. [18] [19] On 28 November 2018, Hakim filed his nomination. [20]
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is the local government of the Indian city of Kolkata, the state capital of West Bengal. This civic administrative body administers an area of 206.08 square kilometres (79.57 sq mi). [ 2 ]
The 2021 Kolkata Municipal Corporation election was held on 19 December 2021 to elect 144 members of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) which governs Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. [7] A total of 40,48,357 electors were eligible to vote in the election. [8] [9] The results were announced on 21 December. [10]
In November 2018, Mamata Banerjee also made Sovan resign from his positions as a Minister in her cabinet & mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation due to marital problems affecting his work, [13] which caused him to further distance himself from the party. In August 2019, Sovan, accompanied by Baisakhi, joined BJP, while Ratna continued to ...
He was elected from Ward No. 100, Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 2005, defeating influential Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee. [6] As Mayor of Kolkata, he undertook several projects including sewerage systems in the city and took initiative to provide birth certificates to street children.
The Kolkata Municipal Corporation is divided into 144 administrative wards that are grouped into 16 boroughs. [1]Each of these wards elects a councillor to the KMC. Each borough has a committee consisting of the councillors elected from the respective wards of the boroughs.
Kolkata Atin Ghosh is an Indian politician who is serving as a sitting member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Kashipur-Belgachhia constituency since 6 May 2021. [ 1 ] He is the Deputy Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation since 2018. [ 2 ]