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Kolkata Municipal Corporation Mayor Firhad Hakim resigned from his authoritative presumption connected Wednesday (June 3, 2026). He has been one of the loyalists serving the Trinamool Congress since the enactment was founded. This comes arsenic the TMC sees a large dismantling of their enactment and as the enactment takes a deed aft the humiliating electoral nonaccomplishment connected May 4.
This determination comes arsenic a stroke arsenic interior revolts, defections, resignations, expulsions, and arrests grip the Trinamool Congress amid shifting governmental dynamics of the State. According to sources, the enactment supremo Mamata Banerjee has agreed to Mr Hakim’s decision to resign arsenic the Mayor.
Earlier successful the day, Mr Hakim attended a State government gathering astatine the Secretariat on with the ruling Bharatiya Janta Party ministers and MLAs.
Mr Hakim has been 1 of the forerunners of the enactment and has been a adjacent adjutant of Ms Banerjee for implicit 3 decades. They person some risen the ranks since the inception of the TMC.
In the 2026 State Assembly elections, Mr Hakim was 1 of the 80 TMC MLAs who won from their seats adjacent erstwhile the electoral numbers of the enactment took a monolithic dive.
“Firhad Hakim submitted a petition to Mamata Banerjee and sought permission to resign. He wants a dignified exit, arsenic the State Government is defuncting the Corporation... Today Mamata Banerjee has granted him support to resign,” elder TMC MLA Kunal Ghosh said connected Wednesday (June 3, 2026) evening.
Chaos astatine KMC
Around 10 days back, mayhem had unfolded in the KMC bureau successful the bosom of Kolkata erstwhile the Mayor and the KMC Chairperson were some locked retired from the chambers during a scheduled monthly meeting with civic assemblage representatives.
Chairperson Mala Roy and Mayor Mr Hakim alleged that the Secretary refused to unfastened the chambers. Later, they held a parallel meeting inside the canteen country arsenic a signifier of protestation against the lockout.
However, the BJP enactment claimed that their councillors were not informed astir the gathering and lone TMC members attended it. Almost 90 TMC councillors showed up to the meeting.
A time back, connected June 2, KMC councillor Sachin Singh was taken into custody by the constabulary nether allegations of corruption.
Saffron surge successful KMC
The last KMC elections were held successful December 2021, and they are owed for a re-election successful December 2026. The TMC has been successful powerfulness astatine the KMC since 2010, adjacent earlier they came to powerfulness successful the State government. Among this, Mr Hakim has served as the Mayor since 2018. He was archetypal appointed aft erstwhile <Mayor Sovandev Chatterjee resigned abruptly. In 2021, he took charge as the person of the civic body for the 2nd term.
In 2021, of the 144 KMC wards, TMC won 134, and the BJP won lone 3. The remainder were won by the Left, Congress, oregon autarkic candidates. The TMC secured 72% votes, the Left parties got 11.7%, and the BJP registered lone 9.3% votes. Kolkata and its surrounding areas had ever been the TMC bastion, and they had casual wins successful these areas successful astir elections, including the Assembly polls.
However, aft the 2026 State Assembly polls, the tide has shifted towards the BJP. In these polls, which overthrew the 15-year regime of the TMC, the saffron surge has besides swept crossed the KMC wards. In astatine slightest 102 of the 144 wards, BJP remained up of the TMC, fueling speculation astir whether the TMC volition beryllium capable to retain their powerfulness successful the civic body.
