Hafiz Alam Sairani | |
Birth Date: | 1 February 1960 |
Birth Place: | Binardah, Uttar Dinajpur |
Residence: | Kolkata |
Office1: | Vice President WBPCC Indian National Congress |
Term Start1: | 21 Feb 2023 |
Office2: | Secretary All India Forward Bloc |
Term Start2: | 2008 |
Term End2: | 2022 |
Office3: | Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly |
Constituency3: | Goalpokhar |
Term Start3: | 1994 |
Term End3: | 2006 |
Predecessor3: | Md. Ramjan Ali |
Successor3: | Deepa Dasmunsi |
Office4: | Minister of Relief and Cooperative |
Term Start4: | 1996 |
Term End4: | 2001 |
Party: | Indian National Congress All India Forward Bloc |
Spouse: | Hena Hafiz |
Alma Mater: | University of Calcutta |
Term Start5: | 2001 |
Term End5: | 2006 |
Secretary: | All India Forward Bloc 2008-2022 |
Hafiz Alam Sairani is Vice President of West Bengal State Congress Committee (WBPCC). Sairani joined Indian National Congress on 3 November 2022 after resigning from all post of All India Forward Bloc. He is former Secretary of All India Forward Bloc and former Secretariat Member of Left Front State Committee. Hafiz resigned from All India Forward Bloc on 23 September 2022. He is former Relief and Co-operative Minister of the Left Front government in West Bengal.[1]
A commerce and education graduate, he is a teacher by profession. He was a state secretariat member and central committee member of the Forward Bloc.[2] [3] And also the member of state Left Front.
He was elected MLA from Goalpokhar in 1996 and 2001.[4] [5]
Born in 1960 at Binardah, a small village of Uttar Dinajpur. Sairani belongs to a Bengali Muslim family which had produced another famous son, Ex MLA and well known politician Ramzan Ali was his elder brother. His father was also a very well known person in that region and was a landlord. A former student of Chakulia High School, Chakulia, Uttar Dinajpur, Sairani studied Commerce from Calcutta University, Kolkata, and secured his M.A degree, and started working in Chakulia High School as a teacher.
In 1994, Sairani was elected as a Legislative Assembly Member for the first time. His constituency was Goalpokhar. He was given charge of the Uttar Dinajpur district by the party. He was also given charge of the Relief department of West Bengal Government. Due to his good image he was also given the charge of Cooperative department.