AKM Maidul Islam

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AKM Maidul Islam
এ কে এম মাঈদুল ইসলাম
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament
for Kurigram-3
In office
25 January 2009 –11 May 2018
NicknameMukul

AKM Maidul Islam (born 1940 or 1943; died 2018) was a Bangladeshi politician from Ulipur who served six terms in the Bangladesh Parliament between 1979 and 2018. First elected as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) member, he later defected to the Jatiya Party (JP), briefly returned to the BNP, and finally rejoined the JP. Islam held ministerial positions under presidents Ziaur Rahman, Abdus Sattar, and Hussain Muhammad Ershad at various times between 1979 and 1990.

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Early life and education

AKM Maidul Islam was born in Assam, British India. [1] Sources vary as to whether he was born on 29 May 1940 [2] [3] or 1 May 1943. [4] [5] His father was Mohammad Abul Quasem. [3] After the partition of India, the family settled in Ulipur, East Pakistan, where his father would become a member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan. [6]

Islam attended Ulipur Maharani Swarnamoyi School and College and matriculated from Matlab High School in Comilla in 1959. He completed his Intermediate of Arts from Rajshahi Government College in 1961, and earned a master's degree in political science from the University of Karachi in 1966. [5]

Career

Islam first sought election to parliament, unsuccessfully, in 1973 as a National Awami Party (Bhashani) candidate. [7]

He was elected to parliament from Rangpur-16 in 1979 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) candidate. [8] He was appointed Minister of Posts, Telegraph, and Telephones in the Zia government in April 1979. In the Sattar government, he was retained in that position until February 1982. He was Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism from January 1982 to March 1982. [9] [10]

On 6 April 1985, he and three other BNP ministers defected to the Jaitya Party of President Hussain Muhammad Ershad. [11] He was elected to parliament from Kurigram-3 in 1986 and 1988 as a candidate of the Jatiya Party (Ershad). [12] In the Ershad government, he was Minister of Land Administration and Land Reforms from November 1985 to April 1986; Minister of Ports, Shipping, and Water Transport from July 1986 to March 1987; the minister of land again from March 1987 to September 1987; the minister of shipping again from September 1987 to November 1987; Minister of Jute and Textiles from September 1988 to September 1989; and Minister of Forests and Environment from September 1988 to January 1990. [2] [13]

After the 1990 Bangladesh mass uprising led to the fall of Ershad, Islam unsuccessfully stood for re-election in 1991 as an independent. [14] He then rejoined the BNP and was elected to parliament from Kurigram-3 in February 1996. [15] Unable to hold his seat in June 1996, [14] he returned to the Jatiya Party (Ershad) and was elected to parliament twice more, in 2008 and 2014. [16] [17]

Death

Selina Begum, his wife, predeceased him on 14 February 2016. They had two daughters and a son. [18] Islam died on 11 May 2018 in United Hospital Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh. [10] He is buried at Banani graveyard in Dhaka. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "JP MP Mayeedul Islam dies". New Age. 9 June 2025.
  2. 1 2 "AKM Maidul Islam, MP no more". Jago News 24. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  3. 1 2 3 "JP MP Maidul Islam to be buried today". The Daily Star. 12 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "Constituency 27_10th_En". Bangladesh Parliament. Archived from the original on 2 March 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  5. 1 2 সাবেক মন্ত্রী এ কে এম মাঈদুল ইসলাম এমপি'র ইন্তেকাল [Former Minister AKM Maidul Islam MP passes away]. AB News 24 (in Bengali). 11 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "List of Members of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan from 1962-1964" (PDF). National Assembly of Pakistan. Retrieved 9 June 2025.
  7. ↑ Chakravarty, S. R. (1988). Bangladesh: The Nineteen Seventy-Nine Elections. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers. p. 110. ISBN   81-7003-088-9.
  8. ↑ Lal, Shiv (1985). Bangla-Pak Polities. New Delhi: The Election Archives. p. 192. OCLC   13125391.
  9. ↑ Rahman, Syedur (2010). Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. pp. 310, 316. ISBN   978-0-8108-6766-6.
  10. 1 2 "MP AKM Maidul Islam dies at 75". bdnews24.com. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  11. ↑ Singh, Nagendra Kumar, ed. (2001). "Khalida Zia, Begam (1945 — )". Encyclopaedia of Muslim Biography: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh. New Delhi: A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. p. 215. ISBN   81-7648-233-1.
  12. ↑ "Jatiya Party lawmaker AKM Maidul Islam passes away". New Age. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  13. ↑ Rahman, Syedur (2010). Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh (4th ed.). Scarecrow Press. pp. 322, 324–236. ISBN   978-0-8108-6766-6.
  14. 1 2 "Parliament Election Result of 1991, 1996, 2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 29 December 2008. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  15. ↑ "List of 6th Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  16. ↑ "Bangladesh Parliament Election - Detail Results". Amar Desh. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  17. ↑ Ahmed, Taib (15 December 2013). "AL closer to majority before voting". New Age. Dhaka. Archived from the original on 3 May 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  18. ↑ জাতীয় পার্টির এমপি মাঈদুল ইসলামের ইন্তেকাল [Jatiya Party MP Maidul Islam passes away]. Daily Inqilab (in Bengali). 12 May 2018.
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