<i>One who heeds the people's voice </i>
(Clockwise from left) Minar Rahman Hridoy, a class three student and an ardent admirer of Selina Hayat Ivy, congratulates her with a garland of flowers on her win in the Narayanganj City Corporation poll after walking all the way from his residence in Bandor area to Ivy's residence in Dewbhog of Narayanganj yesterday. Actress Rokeya Prachi presents flowers and dedicates a poem to Ivy. Locals present Ivy with a bouquet. Photo: Palash Khan
As a primary schoolgirl, Ivy used to accompany her father to Dewbhough Akhra tea-stall early every morning and grew to be an attentive listener to the cross sections of people who gathered there to share sorrows and happiness with their beloved leader Ali Ahmed Chunka. A feeling for her countrymen took over young Selina Hayat Ivy. And the reflection came into notice in 1992 as she flew back home from Russia where she had gone in 1985 on a scholarship of the Russian government to study medicine. Ivy started her schooling at Narayanganj Preparatory School and earned a scholarship from Morgan Girls High School in the city in 1979. She passed Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination with "star marks" in 1982 and flew to Russia in 1985. Born on June 6, 1966, Ivy has had busy moments holding the post of Narayanganj Municipality mayor from 2003 to 2011. She still follows in the footsteps of her father Chunka who had been the most popular chairman of Narayanganj municipality for two terms since the country's independence. Chunka was also the president of Narayanganj city Awami League. He died on February 25, 1984. The eldest among five siblings, Ivy tried to acquire every noble quality from her father, which eventually might have shown the path to her victory in the October 30 mayoral election of the newly formed Narayanganj City Corporation. Leader of the masses, Ivy was married to Kazi Ahsan Hayat, a computer programmer working in New Zealand, in 1995, and mothered two children -- Kazi Sadman Hayat Simanta in 1998 and Kazi Sardil Hayat Ananta in 2002.
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