Javed Ahmed Khan

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Javed Ahmed Khan (born 31 August 1956) is an Indian politician and the former minister for disaster management in the Government of West Bengal from 2011 to 2026. Formerly a member of the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) party, he is also an MLA, elected from the Kasba constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. Khan is a long-standing politician. Born in 1956, he completed his Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.) from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata in 1978. Khan got involved in public service. In the year 2006, the people of Ballygunge (South Kolkata, West Bengal, India) elected Khan as their representative (MLA) in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. 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). From 2005 to 2010, Khan was elected as the leader of...

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