AKM Fazlul Haque Milon | |
|---|---|
একেএম ফজলুল হক মিলন | |
| Member of Parliament for Gazipur-3 | |
| In office 28 October 2001 –27 October 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Akhtaruzzaman |
| Succeeded by | Md. Rahamat Ali |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
AKM Fazlul Haque Milon is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Gazipur-3.
Milon is a former president of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal. [1]
Milon contested the June 1996 Bangladeshi general election from Gazipur-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate and lost. [2] He received 30,834 votes while the winner,Akhtaruzzaman of the Awami League,received 35,502 votes. [2]
Milon was elected to parliament from Gazipur-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. [2] He received 58,518 votes while his nearest rival,Akhtaruzzaman of the Awami League,received 58,133 votes. [2] He was the only candidate from Bangladesh Nationalist Party to be elected from Gazipur District in the 8th parliamentary election. [3] He was the general secretary of the Swechchhasebak Dal and the Gazipur District unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. [3] He received a plot of land in Dhaka from the government along with 104 members of parliament from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. [4] [5]
In September 2007,Milon was arrested from Gulshan by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB). [3] RAB Additional Director General Gulzar Uddin Ahmed reported that Milon was held under emergency power rules and was handed over to Ramna Police Station. [3] He was charged with embezzling metal sheets meant for relief. [3] His Mitsubishi Pajero was also seized by the RAB. [3] He was sentenced to prison by Dhaka metropolitan magistrate ABM Abdul Fattah. [1] The Anti Corruption Commission placed him on a list of 80 suspected corrupt politicians. [6]
Milon was nominated to contest the 2008 Bangladeshi general election from Gazipur-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate. [7] He lost the election with 74,899 votes while the winner,Meher Afroz of the Awami League,received 125,903 votes. [8]
In March 2009,Milon received bail in a cases filed by the Anti Corruption Commission. [9]
Milon campaigned for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate for the 2011 Brahmanbaria-3 by election,Khaled Hossain Mahbub Shamol,against RAM Ubaidul Muktadir Chowdhury of the Awami League. [10]
In May 2012,Milon and 32 other senior leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party were sent to jail in an arson case,regarding over a dozen vehicles burned during a strike by his party,after their bail petition was denied. [11]
Milon did not participate in the 2014 Bangladeshi general election as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party boycotted it. [12] Meher Afroz of the Awami League was elected uncontested from Gazipur-5. [8] In December 2014,Bangladesh Chhattra League took over a venue of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party at Bhawal Badre Alam College in Gazipur where former prime minister Khaleda Zia was scheduled to speak. [13] Milon vowed to hold the rally at the college despite it. [13]
In 2018,Milon was nominated by Bangladesh Nationalist Party to contest the 2018 Bangladeshi general election from Gazipur-5. [14] [15] He was arrested in December 2018 from Gazipur,before the election,following arrest warrants issued from Dhaka. [16] He was one of a number of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders held in jail before the election. [17] He lost the election to Meher Afroz of the Awami League. [18] He received 27,976 votes while Afroz received 207,699 votes. [18]
Milon was arrested on 11 October 2022 after he and a fellow Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader blocked a road according to Bangladesh Police while the party claimed they were holding a peaceful rally. [19]