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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox Indian politician
| name                = Hafiz Alam Sairani
| image               = Hafiz Alam Sairani.jpg
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| caption             = 
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1 February 1960}}
| birth_place         = Binardah, [[Uttar Dinajpur]]
| residence           = Kolkata
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| office1             = Member of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| constituency1       = [[Goalpokhar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Goalpokhar]]
| salary1             = 
| term_start1         = 1994
| term_end1           = 2006
| predecessor1        = [[Md. Ramjan Ali]]
| successor1          = [[Deepa Dasmunsi]]
| chiefminister1      = 
| office2             = [[Minister (government)|Minister of Relief and Cooperative]]
| constituency2       = Goalpokhar
| term_start2         = 1996
| term_end2           = 2001
| predecessor2        = 
| successor2          = 
| chiefminister2      = 
| party               = [[All India Forward Bloc]]<br>{{small|(till 23rd Sep, 2022)}}
| spouse              = Hena Hafiz
| college             = 
| children            = 
| alma_mater          = [[University of Calcutta]]
| faculty             = 
| website             = 
| source              = 
| term_start3         = 2001
| term_end3           = 2006
| office              = 
| term                = 
| Secretary           = All India Forward Bloc 2011-2022
}}
'''Hafiz Alam Sairani''' 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 23rd September 2022. He is former Relief and Co-operative Minister of the Left Front government in West Bengal.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1031011/asp/siliguri/story_2449875.asp |title = Crop carnage in rain rampage - More than 4,000 families displaced by downpour|publisher=The Telegraph, 11 October 2003 | accessdate = 4 July 2022}}</ref>

A commerce and education graduate, he is a teacher by profession. He is a state secretariat member and central committee member of the Forward Bloc.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://myneta.info/wb2006/candidate.php?candidate_id=524 |title = Election Watch Reporter| work= Hafiz Alam Sairani|publisher=National Election Watch | accessdate = 4 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.thestatesman.net/news/59964-forward-bloc-grapples-with-dissent.html |title = Forward Bloc grapples with dissent |publisher=The Statesman, 17 June 2014 | accessdate = 4 July 2022}}</ref> And also the member of state Left Front.{{fact|date=December 2022}}

He was elected MLA from [[Goalpokhar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Goalpokhar]] in 1996 and 2001.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-UP96.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission  | accessdate = 1 July  2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data|publisher= Election Commission  | accessdate = 1 July 2022}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Born in 1960 at Binardah, a small village of [[Uttar Dinajpur district|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.{{fact|date=December 2022}}

== Career ==
In 1994, Sairani was elected as a Legislative Assembly Member for the first time. His constituency was [[Goalpokhar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|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.{{fact|date=December 2022}}

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[[Category:All India Forward Bloc politicians]]
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[[Category:20th-century Bengalis]]
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