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 politician. 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 | |
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 Javed Khan in March, 2023 | |
| Minister for Disaster Management, West Bengal | |
| Assumed office 20 May 2011 | |
| Governor | M. K. Narayanan D. Y. Patil Keshari Nath Tripathi Jagdeep Dhankhar La. Ganesan C. V. Ananda Bose |
| Chief Minister | Mamata Banerjee |
| Preceded by | Pratim Chatterjee |
| Member of Legislative Assembly, West Bengal | |
| Assumed office 13 May 2011 | |
| Constituency | Kasba |
| In office 2006–2011 | |
| Preceded by | Rabin Deb |
| Succeeded by | Subrata Mukherjee |
| Constituency | Ballygunge |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 August 1956 Kolkata, India |
| Political party | All India Trinamool Congress |
| Residence | Kolkata |
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.