Javed Ahmed Khan is an Indian politician from the

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(TMC) party and the present Minister for Disaster Management in the

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. He is also an MLA, elected from the Kasba constituency in the

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. He is politician of the

(TMC) party. He is a long-standing politician. Born in 1956, Javed Ahmed Khan completed a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.) from

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in 1978. Khan got involved in

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. In the year 2006, the people of

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(

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, West Bengal,

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) elected Khan as their representative (MLA) in the

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. Khan has also served as a councillor of Ward no. 66 (

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) from 1995 to 2010. In addition, in the year 2000–2005, Khan was sworn in as the Member, Mayor in Council (Health) of the

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(KMC), headed by

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(former Mayor of Kolkata). Nonetheless, from 2005 to 2010, Khan was elected as the Leader of the Opposition in the KMC.

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