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The Bidhannagar Municipality Corporation Mayor handed successful their resignation connected Thursday (June 4, 2026), conscionable a time aft Kolkata Municipal Corporation Mayor discontinue his role. However, the KMC officials are yet to accept the resignation of Firhad Hakim arsenic the KMC mayor.
The BMC Mayor and elder Trinamool Congress person Krishna Chakraborty, resigned from her post; she cited idiosyncratic reasons for the move.
“I person resigned arsenic the mayor. I volition proceed to enactment arsenic a councillor. I privation to walk immoderate clip for myself... I person been successful this seat for the past 16 years,” Ms Chakraborty told media persons. She besides added that she has worked for the radical since a young age, and she volition proceed to bash truthful adjacent aft resigning arsenic the Mayor.
Sharadwat Mukherjee, the Bharatiya Janta Party MLA from Bidhannagar accused that Ms. Chakraborty of sitting connected a furniture of wealth for the past galore years. “We person listed implicit 18-19 properties linked to her, the impermanent houses that tally nether her. She indispensable beryllium ashamed if people find out. That is wherefore she is going down the curtains now,” Mr Chakraborty said.
This comes arsenic a large improvement arsenic aggregate apical stakeholders successful the Trinamool Congress are changing sides, deflecting from the party, facing violence, arrests, and 2 person besides faced an expulsion.
On Wednesday (June 3, 2026), Mr Hakim handed successful his resignation aft serving arsenic the politician of KMC for astir 7 years. Senior TMC MLA Kunal Ghosh said that Mr Hakim wanted a dignified exit arsenic the KMC was made defunct by the existent State government.
On Thursday (June 4, 2026), KMC chairperson and senior TMC person Mala Ray said that they are calling a location gathering astatine the KMC connected June 19. The previous house gathering connected May 22 had to beryllium cancelled aft an impasse betwixt the KMC caput and TMC councillors left the concern successful a authorities of turmoil.
However, his determination has travel nether disapproval by the West Bengal government, as Mr Hakim waits for his resignation to beryllium accepted. Senior Bharatiya Janta Party person and Minister Agnimitra Paul called the determination irresponsible and accused that it showed a deficiency of accountability towards the radical the civic assemblage person is expected to serve.
“Kolkata contiguous stands at a critical juncture. With the onset of the monsoon season, the metropolis faces recurring challenges related to waterlogging, drainage management, nationalist wellness concerns, roadworthy maintenance, and exigency preparedness. At specified a moment, citizens expect their elected representatives to basal beside them, code their concerns, and guarantee the creaseless functioning of civic services,” Ms Paul wrote connected her societal media, criticising Mr Hakim’s resignation.
It is to beryllium noted, that multiple councillors from both Bidhannagar and Kolkata Corporation person travel nether the constabulary nett for charges of intimidation, extortion, threats, and corruption and person faced arrests successful the past 1 period since the caller authorities came to powerfulness successful the State.
In different Municipalities crossed the State, several councillors and officials person handed successful wide resignations successful the past fewer weeks arsenic the State goes done large changes.
The KMC elections are apt to beryllium held connected December 2026 arsenic the five-year tenure of the past civic body comes to an end at the year’s end.
