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Cllr Rehman Chishti
Cllr Rehman Chishti
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Contact

Cllr Chishti can be contacted by using any of the methods below:

Email: rehman.chishti@medway.gov.uk
Telephone: 01634 324849
Address: 30 Shakespeare Road
Gillingham
Kent ME7 5QN

Surgeries

Roving surgery
Usually first Sunday of every month

Council Roles

Cabinet Portfolios Held
Community Safety and Enforcement

Background

Rehman is a local resident, having lived in the Gillingham and Rainham Constituency for most of his life.

He attended Rainham Mark Grammar School, and has been a governor at Chatham Grammar School for Girls for the past seven years.

By profession Rehman is a practising barrister, specialising in criminal law, he regularly prosecutes; the issues of Law and Order and community safety are of paramount importance.

Apart from politics, his other passion is sport. As a keen sportsman himself, he represented Medway and Kent schools in cricket as well as having captained Hempstead youth cricket team.

Rehman is committed to the local community; he has pledged to run in the Jersey half marathon later in the year to raise money for Age Concern, Gillinghaml.

Alongside his role as a councillor, he wass also Adviser on Diversity to the then Chairman of the Conservative Party, the Rt Hon Francis Maude MP and was elected Deputy Chair (Political) of the Gillingham & Rainham Conservatives Association.

Rehman is also the Gillingham and Rainham Conservatives' Parliamentary Spokesman.

2007 Election Result, Rainham Central Ward

Mike O'Brien (C) - 2216 - elected
Rehman Chishti (C) - 2204 - elected

Bob Collinson (LD) - 1081 - not elected