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Mayors Of Kolkata
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. History The first Kolkata Municipal Election was held on 16 April 1924, during the time of British India, under the ''Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923 - Bengal Act III of 1923''. Mayors were elected on an annual basis. No corporation elections were held, therefore there was no mayor, from 1948 to 1952, since the Calcutta Municipal Corporation had been superseded by the State Government by ''The Corporation of Calcutta (Temporary Supersession) Act, 1948''. In 1952 further mayors were appointed on an annual basis under the ''Calcutta Municipal Act, West Bengal Act XXXIII of 1951''. There was another break in mayoral elections from 1972 during which time the Municipal Corporation had been superseded by the Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kolkata Municipal Corporation
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is the local government of the Indian city of Kolkata, the List of Indian state and union territory capitals, state capital of West Bengal. This civic administrative body administers an area of . Its motto, ''Puroshri Bibardhan'', is inscribed on its emblem in Bengali alphabet, Bengali script. It is headed by a mayor, who presides over 144 Councillor, councillors, each of whom represents one of the Wards of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, 144 wards of the city. History Under the guidance of the first Minister of Local Self-Government in Bengal, Sir Surendranath Banerjee, the Calcutta Municipal Act of 1923 made provision for the enfranchisement of women and the election of a Mayor of Kolkata annually. Chittaranjan Das, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das was the first Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation with Subhas Chandra Bose as his Chief Executive Officer. Later mayors include Deshapriya Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, Subhas Chandra Bose, Bidhan Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AK Fazlul Huq
Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq (26 October 1873 – 27 April 1962), popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla, was a Bengali lawyer and politician who served as the first and longest prime minister of Bengal during the British Raj. He is well-known to present the Lahore Resolution which had the objective of creating an independent Pakistan. Born in 1873 to a Bengali Muslim family in British Bengal, Huq held important political offices in the subcontinent, including president of the All India Muslim League (1916–1921), general secretary of the Indian National Congress (1916–1918), education minister of Bengal (1924), mayor of Calcutta (1935), prime minister of Bengal (1937–1943), advocate general of East Bengal (1947–1952), chief minister of East Bengal (1954), home minister of Pakistan (1955–1956) and Governor of East Pakistan (1956–1958). He was first elected to the Bengal Legislative Council from Dhaka in 1913; and served on the council for 21 years until 1934. Huq was a ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamal Basu
Kamal Kumar Basu (22 August 1918 – 21 January 2013) was a Bengali Indian politician who had served as a Mayor of Kolkata, India between 1985 and 1990. Early life and education Born to a progressive family, that included his grandfather, barrister Bhupendra Nath Bose, a former president of the Indian National Congress, he had studied economics at the Scottish Church College, and eventually earned a master's degree in political science from the University of Calcutta, where he subsequently studied law. He had joined a solicitor firm BN Basu & Co after passing law. Career in politics and social life At an early age, he joined the Communist Party of India and became a Member of Parliament for the Lok Sabha, from West Bengal's Diamond Harbour in the South 24 Parganas district in 1952. In 1964, when CPI split up, he joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was associated with the CPI(M) for over four decades. Later life He became Calcutta's mayor in 1985. He was also a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All India Forward Bloc
The All India Forward Bloc ( AIFB) is a Left-wing nationalism, left-wing nationalist political party in India. It emerged as a Political faction, faction within the Indian National Congress in 1939, led by Subhas Chandra Bose, and was strongest in West Bengal. The party re-established as an independent political party after the independence of India. During the 1951–52 Indian general election, 1951–1952 and 1957 Indian general election, the party was known as Forward Bloc (Marxist). The party's current Secretary-General is G. Devarajan. Veteran Indian politicians Sarat Chandra Bose (brother of Subhas Chandra Bose) and Chitta Basu (politician), Chitta Basu had been the stalwarts of the party in independent India. Leveraging Netaji's sway over the populace, the organization had established its electoral footprint after Independence in states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, and Assam, with West Bengal as its primary bastion. However, after eight decades, the party, now ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a Communism in India, communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party in India in terms of membership and electoral seats, and one of the six List of political parties in India#National parties, national parties of India. The party was founded through 1964 split in the Communist Party of India, a splitting from the Communist Party of India in 1964; it quickly became the dominant faction. The 34 years of Communist Party of India (Marxist), West Bengal, CPI(M)-led Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front rule in West Bengal was the longest-serving democratically elected communist-led government in the world. It emerged as the third largest party of the Parliament of India, parliament in 2004 Indian general election, 2004 national election. Presently, CPI(M) is a part of ruling alliances in two states - the Left Democratic Front, LDF in Kerala, which it lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prasanta Sur - Calcutta 1995-06-15 019
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Prasanta Sur
Prasanta Sur (; 1 January 1923 – 29 February 2008) was an Indian politician, and the convenor of the Kolkata district Left Front (West Bengal), Left Front committee who became the first Left Front Mayor of Kolkata during 1969. A member of the state committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sur was the urban development minister in the first Left Front government in 1977. Later, he also held key portfolios like health, refugee rehabilitation etc. He died on 29 February 2008, aged 85, after suffering from age-related problems. Family background and early life Sur's father was Rai Saheb Nagendra Kumar Sur, a member of the landed gentry of (erstwhile) east Pakistan. The Rai Saheb disowned him after Prasanta Sur joined the Communist movement in Kolkata. An obstinate and proud man, the Rai Saheb continued to live at his home in East Pakistan until he was assassinated by the Pakistani Army in 1971. He Was one of the great leaders like Saroj Dutta, Jyoti Basu, Geeta Mukherjee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triguna Sen
Triguna Sen (24 December 1905 – 11 January 1998) was the 6th Union Minister for Education for the Government of India. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1965. He was first Vice-Chancellor of Jadavpur University (from 1956 to 1966) and 11th Vice-Chancellor of Banaras Hindu University. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha Rajya Sabha (Council of States) is the upper house of the Parliament of India and functions as the institutional representation of India’s federal units — the states and union territories.https://rajyasabha.nic.in/ It is a key component o ... from 1967 to 1974. He was a member of Governing Body as a Guest lecturer for Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College ( Jadavpur). References {{DEFAULTSORT:Sen, Triguna 20th-century Indian educational theorists 20th-century Bengalis Bengali educators Bengali Hindus West Bengal politicians Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education 1905 births 1998 deaths Academic staff of Jadavpur University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Badrudduja
Syed Badrudduja (; 4 January 1900 – 18 November 1974) was an Indian-Bengali politician, parliamentarian, and activist. He was a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly, member of Indian parliament Lok Sabha and the Mayor of Calcutta. He was involved with the anti-colonials movements like Khilafat Movement and Civil Disobedience Movement, and was an advocate of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy's United Bengal proposal. Early life and education Badrudduja was born on 4 January 1900 in Talibpur village in Murshidabad district to Syed Abdul Ghafur. He studied at Calcutta Madrassa, Presidency College Calcutta, and the University of Calcutta, and earned an M.A. and an L.L.B. Career Badrudduja joined and served as secretary of Progressive Muslim League. He worked in the Indian independence movement with Bengali leaders like Chitta Ranjan Das, Subhas Chandra Bose, and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. He was also associated with Krishak Praja Party. Later, he became president of Independent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemchandra Naskar
Hemacandra was a 12th century () Śvetāmbara Jaina ācārya, scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher, yogi, grammarian, law theorist, historian, lexicographer, rhetorician, logician, and prosodist. Noted as a prodigy by his contemporaries, he gained the title ''kalikālasarvajña'', "the knower of all knowledge in his times" and is also regarded as father of the Gujarati language. Born as Caṅgadeva, he was ordained in the Śvetāmbara school of Jainism in 1110 and took the name Somacandra. In 1125 he became an adviser to King Kumārapāla and wrote ''Arhannīti'', a work on politics from Jaina perspective. He also produced ''Triśaṣṭi-śalākā-puruṣacarita'' (“Deeds of the 63 Illustrious Men”), a Sanskrit epic poem on the history of important figures of Jainism. Later when he was consecrated as ācārya, his name was changed to Hemacandra. Early life Hemacandra was born in Dhandhuka, in present-day Gujarat, on Kartika Sud Purnima (the full moon day of Kār ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All-India Muslim League
The All-India Muslim League (AIML) was a political party founded in 1906 in Dhaka, British India with the goal of securing Muslims, Muslim interests in South Asia. Although initially espousing a united India with interfaith unity, the Muslim League later led the Pakistan Movement, calling for a Two-nation theory, separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India. The party arose out of the need for the political representation of Muslims in British Raj, British India, especially during the Indian National Congress-sponsored Swadeshi movement, massive Hindu opposition to the 1905 partition of Bengal. During the 1906 annual meeting of the All India Muslim Education Conference held in Ahsan Manzil, Israt Manzil Palace, Dhaka, the Nawab of Dhaka, Khwaja Salimullah, forwarded a proposal to create a political party which would protect the interests of Muslims in British India. He suggested the political party be named the 'All-India Muslim League'. The motion was unanimously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Abdur Rahman Siddiqui
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