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News Desk: TMC leader Firhad Hakim on Thursday named the next mayor of Kolkata after a meeting of the newly-elected councillors of the city civic body.
Hakim, who won the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) election from ward 82, is the former mayor of the city and was appointed the civic body’s administrator after the earlier board’s term expired in 2020 but elections could not be held due to the pandemic.
Hakim, who is also an MLA from the Kolkata Port assembly segment, holds the Transport and Housing portfolios in the state cabinet.
“I want to thank Mamata Banerjee for giving me this opportunity to serve the people of Kolkata again. I have been appointed as the leader of the party and after taking oath as mayor, I will work towards implementing the manifesto,” Hakim, the first Muslim mayor of the city, said.
