Incidentally, Firhad is the second mayor of Kolkata after Mamata Banerjee became CM. Earlier, in November 2016, when Shovon Chattopadhyay resigned from the post of mayor, Mamata appointed Firhad, who was in charge of the then city and urban development department, as the mayor of Kolkata. Kolkata Port MLA Firhad won the 2021 Assembly elections for the fourth time and became the Minister of State for Transport and Housing. With the party’s one-man, one-post policy in mind, it seemed for a while that Firhad would not be a candidate in the by-elections. However, after the announcement of the Trinamool candidate list on November 26, it was seen that he has been nominated as a candidate again inward no. He has won the pre-poll by a wide margin. After completing all those episodes, he became the mayor again.

Firhad Hakim was sworn in as the Mayor of Kolkata Municipality. The chairperson is Mala Roy. The mayor and his councilors were sworn in at a ceremony at the municipality on Tuesday. The Trinamool had already confirmed the formation of the Purbord after winning 134 seats in the by-elections. After that, the names of the mayor, chairperson, mayoral council, and borough chairmen were fixed by the party leader Mamata Banerjee. Tuesday’s event was a treat. Ram Padyare Ram, Councilor of Ward No. 69, presided over the function as a senior councilor. He is the one who administered the oath to the mayor and chairperson.

Atin Ghosh was sworn in as Deputy Mayor. Debashis Kumar, Debabrata Majumder, Tarak Singh, Abhijit Mukherjee, Swapan Samaddar, Mitali Bandyopadhyay, Jiban Saha, Ram Pare Ram, Sandipan Saha, Vaishwanar Chattopadhyay, Sandeep Bokshi and Amiruddin Bobby were sworn in as the Mayor. The mayor read out their oath. After taking the oath, Firhad said, “It is not necessary to be the mayor or the mayor, council or councilor,” he said. That is why Mamata Banerjee has sent us here as her representative. Remember, being responsible means being with people, serving them. “

Historically, Calcutta Municipal Corporation is a prestigious post for any political personality in the country, as this has been honored by legends of India.

Here is the List of Mayor elected at Calcutta Municipal Corporation. Some of them are legendary figures of Indian politics like Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Deshapriya Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy,Sri Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque, Dr. Triguna Sen etc. a list of educated, and all admired leaders.

In that illustrated list Mamata Banerjee entrusted second-time Janab Firhad Hakim or Bobby Hakim as the true torchbearer of that legacy of the legend. Congratulation to new mayor and his Mayor in council members.