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Kolkata Election 2021: New body to have 21 Muslim members

Kolkata, WEST BENGAL :

Kolkata Municipal Corporation has a total of 144 seats. Registering a landslide victory, Trinamool Congress won 134 seats.

Kolkata:

The newly elected Kolkata Municipal Corporation )KMC) body will have a total of 21 Muslims members, as per the election result announced by the West Bengal Election Commission after counting of votes Tuesday.

Of the total 21 Muslim members who have won the 2021 Kolkata Civic Body elections polling for which was held on December 19, 18 are from Trinamool Congress Party (TMC), 02 Independents and 01 from the Congress Party.

Kolkata Municipal Corporation has a total of 144 seats. Registering a landslide victory, Trinamool Congress won 134 seats. The BJP won 03 seats, Congress and Left won 02 seats each and the remaining 03 seats went to the Independent candidates.

Among the 02 Congress candidates who won the 2021 local body election and will become corporator, 01 (Wasim Ansari) is a Muslim. Wasim won from Ward No 137.

Similarly, among the 03 Independent Candidates who have won the 2021 KMC election, 02 – (Kaniz Ayesha and Rubina Naz) are Muslims.

Rest 18 corporators have won the election on Trinamool Congress Party ticket. Among them is also Firhad Hakim – a minister in Mamata Banerji cabinet who was also the first Muslim Mayor of Kolkata.

Following is the complete list of Muslims (ward and party wise) who have won the 2021 Kolkata Municipal Election result of which was declared today.

1. Iqbal Ahmed (TMC/Ward No 29)
2. Mohammed Jasimuddin (TMC/Ward No 39)
3. Kaniz Ayesha (Independent/Ward No. 43)
4. Rehana Khatun (TMC/Ward No 44)
5. Amiurddin (TMC/Ward No 54)
6. Kisar Jamil (TMC/Ward No 60)
7. Manzar Iqbal (TMC/Ward No 61)
8. Sana Ahmed (TMC/Ward No 62)
9. Sammi Jahan Begum (TMC/Ward No 64)
10. Faiz Ahmed Khan (TMC/Ward No 66)
11. Nezamuddin Shams (TMC/Ward No 75)
12. Shamima Rehan Khan (TMC/Ward No 77)
13. Md Anwar Khan (TMC/Ward No 80)
14. Firhad Hakim (TMC/Ward No 82)
15. Shams Iqbal (TMC/Ward No 134)
16. Rubina Naz (Independent/Ward No. 135)
17. Shamsuzzaman Ansari (TMC/Ward No 136)
18. Wasim Ansari (Congress/Ward No 137)
19. Farida Parvin (TMC/Ward No 138)
20. Sk Mushtaq Ahmed (TMC/Ward No 139)
21. Abu Mohammed Tarik (TMC/Ward No 140)

Meanwhile, Outgoing mayor Firhad Hakim , who went to meet chief minister Mamata Banerjee after the results fuelling the speculation of becoming the mayor for the second time, told the reporters:

“We should accept the mandate of the people. We also did opposition politics for 34 years but we never questioned the people. They defeated us and we accepted it with a whole heart”

source: http://www.ummid.com / Ummid.com / Home> India / by ummid.com News Network / December 21st, 2021

Asloob Ahmad Ansari obituary

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NEW DELHI / Aligarh, UTTAR PRADESH :

Asloob Ahmad Ansari knew Urdu and Persian, and learned Arabic in later years

My former teacher Asloob Ahmad Ansari, who has died aged 91, was a professor of English at Aligarh Muslim University, northern India, and a distinguished literary critic and editor.

Born in Delhi and brought up in Saharanpur, a city in Uttar Pradesh, Asloob was the son of Sana Ahmad, a member of a land-owning family who worked in a post office, and his wife, Zarifa Khatoon; his four siblings were all to migrate to Pakistan after partition in 1947.

Asloob was educated at a government school in Delhi, and then at Aligarh Muslim University, where he joined the English department as a lecturer in 1946. He retired in 1985, having headed the department for some 20 years. Asloob also obtained a BA from Oxford University (1956-58), where he began a lifelong friendship with his tutor, FW Bateson.

Shakespeare and William Blake were Asloob’s lifelong passions: he regularly attended the World Shakespeare Conference at Stratford-upon-Avon, and launched and edited two journals in English specialising in Shakespeare and Blake scholarship. He persuaded critics including FR Leavis, Wilson Knight, Kenneth Muir and Laurence Lerner to write for the Aligarh Journal of English Studies, which he started in 1976. He continued his editorial work even after retirement, in 1987, when he launched the Aligarh Critical Miscellany.

Asloob knew Urdu and Persian and edited Naqd-o–Nazar, a journal in Urdu that paid special attention to the poets Ghalib and Iqbal. He won many prizes for his contribution to Urdu literature, including the Sahitya Akademi award from India’s National Academy of Letters, the President of Pakistan award, the Ghalib award and the Mir Taqi Mir award.

Asloob always spoke very softly in the classroom, but was disciplined and hard-working, and never very keen on socialising. A diabetic for most of his life, he followed a strict diet and walked many miles each morning and evening. He also played badminton to keep fit.

A devout Muslim, he recited the Qur’an daily and rarely missed his prayers. To understand the Qur’an better, he learnt Arabic in his old age by hiring a private tutor.

In 1951, Asloob married Talat Ara. She survives him, together with their two daughters, Iffat and Roshan, and three grandchildren.

source: http://www.theguardian.com / The Guardian / Home> Education> Other Lives> India / by Mohammad Asim Siddiqui / July 07th, 2016