India’s longest-serving speaker H.A. Halim dead

India’s longest-serving speaker H.A. Halim dead

Prominent CPI-M leader Hashim Abdul Halim, who served as West Bengal assembly speaker for 29 years at a stretch – the longest stint by any presiding officer of a legislature in independent India – died at a nursing home here on Monday, his family said. He was 80. Halim, also a former state minister, is […]