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| name = Hashim Abdul Halim<br />
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1935|6|5}}<ref name=moi>[http://www.mapsofindia.com/west-bengal/legislature/speaker.html Speaker of West Bengal] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010093433/http://www.mapsofindia.com/west-bengal/legislature/speaker.html |date=10 October 2012 }}. MapsofIndia.com. (Retrieved 3 June 2011)</ref><br />
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| residence = [[Kolkata]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2015|11|2|1935|6|5}}<br />
| death_place = Kolkata, India<br />
| office5 = [[Cabinet Minister]], [[Government of West Bengal]] <br />
| 2blankname5 = Ministry <br />
| 2namedata5 = Minister, Judicial Department, Government of West Bengal<ref name=lb>[http://legislativebodiesinindia.nic.in/States%5Cwestbengal%5Cspeaker.htm Shri Hashim Abdul Halim, MLA]. LegislativeBodiesIndia.nic.in. (Retrieved 6 May 2011)</ref><br />
| term_start5 = 1977<ref name=lb/><br />
| term_end5 = 1982<ref name=lb/><br />
| constituency = <br />
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| successor = <br />
| office2 = [[Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term_start2 = 6 May 1982<ref name=moi/><br />
| term_end2 = 18 May 2011<br />
| constituency2 = <br />
| predecessor2 = <br />
| successor2 = [[Gyan Singh Sohanpal]] <small>([[pro tem]])</small><br/>[[Biman Banerjee]]<br />
| term_start4 = 1977<br />
| term_end4 = 2006<br />
| constituency4 = [[Amdanga (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Amdanga]]<br />
| predecessor4 = New Seat<br />
| successor4 = [[Abdus Sattar (West Bengal politician)|Abdus Sattar]]<br />
| office3 = [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]<br />
| term_start3 = 11 May 2006<br />
| term_end3 = 13 May 2011<br />
| constituency3 = [[Entally (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Entally]]<br />
| predecessor3 = Md. Abu Sufyan<br />
| successor3 = Swarna Kamal Saha<br />
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<br />
| spouse = <br />
| college = <br />
| children = 4(Including Fuad Halim) <br />
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| governor5 = [[Anthony Lancelot Dias]]<br/>[[Tribhuvana Narayana Singh]]<br/>[[Bhairab Dutt Pande]]<br />
| 1blankname5 = Chief Minister<br />
| 1namedata5 = [[Jyoti Basu]] <br />
| governor2 = [[Bhairab Dutt Pande]]<br/>[[Anant Sharma|Anant Prasad Sharma]]<br/>[[Uma Shankar Dikshit]]<br/>[[Saiyid Nurul Hasan]]<br/>[[K. V. Raghunatha Reddy]]<br/>[[Viren J. Shah]]<br/>[[Gopalkrishna Gandhi]]<br/>[[M. K. Narayanan]]<br />
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'''Hashim Abdul Halim''' (5 June 1935 – 2 November 2015) was an Indian communist and politician who was speaker of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] from 1982 to 2011.<br />
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==Life and career==<br />
Abdul Halim started his career as a practising lawyer. He was also an [[alderman]] at the [[Kolkata Municipal Corporation]]. His uncle, M. Ishaque, was a member of the Congress Party and a freedom fighter. He had also served as the chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and president of the World Federation of United Nations Association.<ref>[http://www.drfuadhalim.in/ Dr. Fuad Halim | Home Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818072256/http://www.drfuadhalim.in/ |date=18 August 2011 }}. (Retrieved 27 August 2011).</ref><br />
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A member of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]], he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal for the first time in 1977. Thereafter, he served in the assembly for six terms, from 1977 to 2011. He was the minister for Judicial Affairs in the [[Government of West Bengal]] from 1977 to 1982 and subsequently served as speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2011. He was the [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] for [[Amdanga (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Amdanga]] constituency from 1977 to 2006, when he shifted his constituency to the [[Entally (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Entally]] constituency. He was the MLA from Entally until 2011. He served in numerous departments and committees of West Bengal. Abdul Halim also represented West Bengal at numerous seminars in India and abroad. Abdul Halim was the longest-serving speaker of any legislative assembly in India, serving consecutively for 29&nbsp;years, from 6 May 1982 to May 2011.<ref name="lb"/> After the [[WB2011|2011 elections in West Bengal]], Abdul Halim was replaced by [[Biman Banerjee]] as the Speaker of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}<br />
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Abdul Halim held a master's degree in commerce, a bachelor's degree in law and was awarded an honorary doctorate by [[Soka University]], Tokyo. He was married and had four children. His son, Fuad Halim, was the CPI(M) candidate for the [[Ballygunge (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Ballygunge]] constituency in the 2011 West Bengal elections, but lost to [[Trinamool Congress]]' [[Subrata Mukherjee]] by 41,000 votes.{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}<br />
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Abdul Halim died on 2 November 2015 in Kolkata at the age of 80.<ref>{{cite web|title=Former West Bengal assembly speaker Hashim Abdul Halim died in Kolkata|url=http://www.prepsure.com/former-west-bengal-assembly-speaker-hashim-abdul-halim-died-in-kolkata/|website=PrepSure.com|access-date=5 January 2016|archive-date=2 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202072329/http://www.prepsure.com/former-west-bengal-assembly-speaker-hashim-abdul-halim-died-in-kolkata/|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 1977–1982]]<br />
[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 1982–1987]]<br />
[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 1987–1991]]<br />
[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 1991–1996]]<br />
[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 1996–2001]]<br />
[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 2001–2006]]<br />
[[Category:West Bengal MLAs 2006–2011]]<br />
[[Category:Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:State cabinet ministers of West Bengal]]<br />
[[Category:Speakers of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]<br />
[[Category:People from Barasat Sadar subdivision]]<br />
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