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Khalil Sayed

Khalil Sayed was an Indian politician who belongs to the Indian National Congress. He was the inaugural MLA for Kushmandi at the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Early life and family

Sayed was born into a Bengali Muslim family in the Dinajpur district of the Bengal Presidency.

Career

Sayed successfully contested in the 1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election where he ran as a Communist Party of India candidate for Kushmandi Assembly constituency, defeating Congress politician Maharaja Bose.[1] He contested in the 1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election from the Gangarampur Assembly constituency as an Indian National Congress candidate, where he defeating Marxist politician Ahindra Sarker and regained his seat at the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[2] Sayed contested in the 1969 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election from Gangarampur again but lost to Sarker.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Kushmandi, 1962". Latestly. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  2. ^ "Gangarampur, 1967". Latestly. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Gangarampur, 1969". Latestly. Retrieved 3 July 2023.