Hakim, who won the KMC election from Ward 82, is a former mayor of the city and was appointed administrator of the civic body after the term of the first board ended in 2020, but elections could not be held due to the pandemic. He became the mayor of Kolkata in December 2018 after the sudden exit of Sovan Chatterjee.
The new mayor, who is also an MLA from the Kolkata Port assembly constituency, holds the transport and housing portfolios in the state cabinet.
Hakim said, “I want to thank Mamata Banerjee for giving me an opportunity to serve the people of Kolkata again. I have been appointed as the leader of the party and after taking oath as the mayor, I am going to implement the manifesto.” I will work towards The city’s first Muslim mayor.
West Bengal’s ruling TMC on Tuesday regained control of the 144-member KMC. Mamata Banerjee’s party won 134 seats to post a hat-trick of victory, beating a feeble challenge from the opposition BJP, the Left Front and the Congress.
In addition, South Kolkata Lok Sabha MP Mala Roy, re-elected councilor from Ward 88, was named president of the KMC after a meeting held at the Maharashtra residence here. She was also the chairperson of the civic body in the earlier term.
Kashipur-Belgachia MLA Atin Ghosh, who became a councilor from Ward 11, has been again appointed as the deputy mayor of the municipal body.
TMC got 71.95 per cent votes, while Left Front and BJP got 11.13 and 8.94% votes. Congress got 4.47% and independents got 3.25% votes.
The ruling party got 22% more votes than the 2015 KMC elections and increased its vote share by 11% in comparison to the April-May assembly elections.
A senior official of the State Election Commission said that the BJP, which had lost most of its strength after its defeat in the assembly polls, managed to win only three wards. Congress and CPI(M)-led Left Front got two wards each and Independents got three wards.
Left Front came second after TMC in terms of vote share.
Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, who is trying to expand her party’s footprint beyond her native state, saw a leg-up for her national ambitions in the victory.
“I want to dedicate this victory to the people of the state and ‘Maa, Maati, Manush’ (Mother, land and people – TMC’s slogan for many years). Several national parties like BJP, Congress and CPI(M) fought Fought. Against us, but they all lost. This is the victory of the daughter of the soil. This victory will show the way in national politics in the days to come,” Banerjee had said after her party’s victory.
The TMC had won all the 16 assembly constituencies in the city in the assembly elections and the BJP was its main challenger. In the assembly elections, the saffron party was second only to TMC in terms of vote share in all the wards with 16 seats.
With inputs from agencies.
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