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After 29
years, Bengal Speaker Halim to hang up boots
Tuesday March 15, 2011 09:49:08 PM,
PTI
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Kolkata:
When the new West Bengal Assembly is formed after the April-May
election, it will miss the familiar face of Hasim Abdul Halim who
presided over the proceedings for the past 29 years.
Octogenarian Halim has decided not to contest the coming election
for the 15th Assembly on health ground and requested his party
CPI-M not to renominate him for the polls.
Halim, who very recently recovered from heart problems, said, "I
have been strictly under doctors advice and will therefore not be
able to contest the election."
Due to his poor health, the party had changed his constituency
Amdanga in North 24-Parganas district, from where he was elected
in 1977 for the first time, to Entally in the city in the last
2006 election.
A lawyer by profession, Halim started his innings by becoming the
law minister in 1977 when the Left Front swept to power in the
state.
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