Javed Ahmed Khan

Javed Ahmed Khan is an Indian politician from the All India Trinamool Congress party and the present minister for disaster management in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA, elected from the Kasba constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election. Khan is a long-standing politician. Born in 1956, he completed his Bachelor of Commerce from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata in 1978. Khan got involved in public service.
In the year 2006, the people of Ballygunge elected Khan as their representative in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Khan has also served as a councillor of Ward no. 66 from 1995 to 2010. In addition, in the year 2000–2005, Khan was sworn in as the Member, Mayor in Council of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, headed by Subrata Mukherjee. From 2005 to 2010, Khan was elected as the leader of the Opposition in the KMC.