Javed Ahmed Khan

Javed Ahmed Khan is an Indian politician from the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) party and the present Minister for Disaster Management in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA, elected from the Kasba constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.[1][2][3] He is politician of the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) party. He is a long-standing public servant, and a social worker. Born in 1956, Javed Ahmed Khan completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.) from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata in 1978. Khan got involved in public service.

Javed Khan
Minister for Disaster Management, West Bengal
Assumed office
20 May 2011
Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee
Preceded byPratim Chatterjee
MLA, Legislative Assembly, West Bengal
Assumed office
May 13, 2011
ConstituencyKasba
In office
2006–2011
Preceded byRabin Deb
Succeeded bySubrata Mukherjee
ConstituencyBallygunge
Personal details
Born31 August 1956
Kolkata, India
Political partyAll India Trinamool Congress
ResidenceKolkata

In the year 2006, the people of Ballygunge (South Kolkata, West Bengal, India) elected Khan as their representative (MLA)[4] in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[5]

Khan has also served as a councillor of Ward no. 66 (Topsia) from 1995 to 2010. In addition, in the year 2000–2005, Khan was sworn in as the Member, Mayor in Council (Health) of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), headed by Subrata Mukherjee (former Mayor of Kolkata). Nonetheless, from 2005 to 2010, Khan was elected as the Leader of the Opposition in the KMC.

References

Political offices
Preceded by
Pratim Chatterjee
Minister of Disaster Management
in the West Bengal Government

2011 –
Succeeded by
incumbent
State Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
Rabin Deb
Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
from Ballygunge (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

20062011
Succeeded by
Subrata Mukherjee
New seat Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
from Kasba, Kolkata (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

2016
Incumbent


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