Hashim Abdul Halim
{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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| name = Hashim Abdul Halim
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1935|6|5}}[http://www.mapsofindia.com/west-bengal/legislature/speaker.html Speaker of West Bengal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010093433/http://www.mapsofindia.com/west-bengal/legislature/speaker.html |date=10 October 2012 }}. MapsofIndia.com. (Retrieved 3 June 2011)
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| residence = Kolkata
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2015|11|2|1935|6|5}}
| death_place = Kolkata, India
| office5 = Cabinet Minister, Government of West Bengal
| 2blankname5 = Ministry
| 2namedata5 = Minister, Judicial Department, Government of West Bengal[http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/States%5Cwestbengal%5Cspeaker.htm Shri Hashim Abdul Halim, MLA]. LegislativeBodiesIndia.nic.in. (Retrieved 6 May 2011)
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| successor =
| office2 = Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
| term_end2 = 18 May 2011
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| predecessor2 =
| successor2 = Gyan Singh Sohanpal (pro tem)
Biman Banerjee
| term_start4 = 1977
| term_end4 = 2006
| constituency4 = Amdanga
| predecessor4 = New Seat
| successor4 = Abdus Sattar
| office3 = Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
| term_start3 = 2006
| term_end3 = 2011
| constituency3 = Entally
| predecessor3 = Md. Abu Sufyan
| successor3 = Swarna Kamal Saha
| party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
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| children = 4(Including Fuad Halim)
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| governor5 = Anthony Lancelot Dias
Tribhuvana Narayana Singh
Bhairab Dutt Pande
| 1blankname5 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata5 = Jyoti Basu
| governor2 = Bhairab Dutt Pande
Anant Prasad Sharma
Uma Shankar Dikshit
Saiyid Nurul Hasan
K. V. Raghunatha Reddy
Viren J. Shah
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
M. K. Narayanan
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Hashim Abdul Halim (5 June 1935 – 2 November 2015) was an Indian communist and politician who was speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2011.
Life and career
Abdul Halim started his career as a practising lawyer. He was also an alderman at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, his uncle, M. Ishaque was a member of the Congress Party and a freedom fighter. He has also served as the chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and president of the World Federation of United Nations Association.[http://www.drfuadhalim.in/ Dr. Fuad Halim | Home Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818072256/http://www.drfuadhalim.in/ |date=18 August 2011 }}. (Retrieved 27 August 2011).
A member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal for the first time in 1977. Thereafter, he served in the assembly for six terms, from 1977 to 2011. He was the minister for Judicial Affairs in the Government of West Bengal from 1977 to 1982 and subsequently served as speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2011. He was the MLA for Amdanga constituency from 1977 to 2006, when he shifted his constituency to the Entally constituency. He was the MLA from Entally until 2011. He has served in numerous departments and committees of West Bengal. Abdul Halim has also represented West Bengal at numerous seminars in India and abroad. Abdul Halim was the longest-serving speaker of any legislative assembly in India, serving for a consecutive 29 years from 6 May 1982 to May 2011. After the 2011 elections in West Bengal, Abdul Halim was replaced by Biman Banerjee as the Speaker of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}
Abdul Halim held a master's degree in commerce, a bachelor's degree in law and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Soka University, Tokyo. He was married and had four children. His son, Fuad Halim, was the CPI(M) candidate for the Ballygunge constituency in the 2011 West Bengal elections, but lost to Trinamool Congress' Subrata Mukherjee by 41,000 votes.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}
Abdul Halim died on 2 November 2015 in Kolkata at the age of 80.{{cite web|title=Former West Bengal assembly speaker Hashim Abdul Halim died in Kolkata|url=http://www.prepsure.com/former-west-bengal-assembly-speaker-hashim-abdul-halim-died-in-kolkata/|website=PrepSure.com|access-date=5 January 2016|archive-date=2 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202072329/http://www.prepsure.com/former-west-bengal-assembly-speaker-hashim-abdul-halim-died-in-kolkata/|url-status=dead}}
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Category:West Bengal MLAs 1977–1982
Category:West Bengal MLAs 1982–1987
Category:West Bengal MLAs 1987–1991
Category:West Bengal MLAs 1991–1996
Category:West Bengal MLAs 1996–2001
Category:West Bengal MLAs 2001–2006
Category:West Bengal MLAs 2006–2011
Category:Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal
Category:State cabinet ministers of West Bengal
Category:Speakers of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly