Mirza Abbas

Mirza Abbas
মির্জা আব্বাস
Abbas in 2020
Member of Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 February 2026

Abbas is among those leaders who started their political career with the emergence of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and worked with President Ziaur Rahman.^{[ citation needed ]}

Abbas was appointed as the mayor of Dhaka City Corporation in 1991. He served at that position until December 1993. ^[8] Later, in the election of 2001, Mirza Abbas was elected as a member of parliament from capital Dhaka. He was appointed as the Minister of Housing and Public Works. Mirza Abbas, as a minister, time and again focused on the strict enforcement of Wetland Protection Act to ensure environmental balance and flooding. The Ministry of Housing and Public Works under his able leadership amended the Building Construction Rules that was finally enacted in December 2006. ^[9]

Under his auspices, the Ministry also formulated Private Housing Land Development Rules, a guideline to streamline real estate developers particularly involved in filling up thousands of acres of wetland and flood flow zones. In The 5th National Council of Bangladesh Nationalist Party of 2009, he was selected as a national standing committee member of the party for his contribution towards the party. ^[10] He was later given the responsibility of the convener of party's Dhaka city unit in 2014. In 2015, he collected his nomination form to contest as a mayoral candidate from Dhaka South City Corporation. ^[11]

In 2026, he returned to parliament as MP, after successfully beating NCP politician Nasiruddin Patwary in Dhaka-8. ^[6]

Charges and convictions

On 25 February 2007, Abbas was arrested when he went to submit his wealth statement to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). He was among the first list of 50 graft suspects. ^[12]

On 15 July 2007, ACC filed a case against Abbas, former BNP MP Ali Asgar Lobi and Mahfuzul Islam, a government official. The case accused them of illegally allotting an industrial plot in Tejgaon Industrial Area for Pacific Chemicals Ltd, a company owned by Lobi in 2006. ^[13]

On 12 May 2008, Abbas was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment on charges of evading tax upon his income for during 1990–2007 and also, furnishing false information in the tax returns. ^[12]

On 6 March 2014, ACC filed a graft cast against Abbas over corruption in plot allocation among journalists when he was the housing and public works minister. ^{[14] [15]} After a Supreme Court ruling, he was released on bail from jail in April 2016. ^{[14] [16]} In 2025, he was acquitted by the court in these cases. ^{[17] [18]}

On 6 January 2016, after the surrender, Abbas was jailed in connection with two violence cases. The cases were filed in December 2014 and January 2015. ^[19] In 2024, he was freed from jail. ^{[20] [21]}

Personal life

Abbas is married to Afroza Abbas, the president of Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal, a wing of the BNP. ^{[22] [23]}

Social service

Abbas established the Mirza Abbas Mohila Degree College for the betterment of women education in his locality. ^[9] He donated to SEID Trust, a school for autistic children. ^[24]

References

1. "List of 4th parliament members". Bangladesh Parliament .
2. "List of 7th parliament members". Bangladesh Parliament .
3. "Afroza Abbas to lead BNP's women front". The Daily Star. 27 September 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
4. "Rizvi, Abbas, Nazrul, 7 others made PM Tarique's advisers". The Business Standard . 17 February 2026. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
5. "Abbas, Nazrul, Rizvi, 7 others made advisers to prime minister". The Financial Express. 17 February 2026. Retrieved 17 February 2026.
6. "Dhaka-8 Election Results 2026 | Mirza Abbas wins Dhaka-8 with 59,366 votes | Mirza Abbas Wins Dhaka-8 | The Daily Star". www.thedailystar.net. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
7. "Affidavit of Mirza Abbas" (PDF). Election Commission. 8 September 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
8. "Moudud, Roll of Honor". Dhaka North City Corporation. 8 September 2009. Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
9. "Mr. Mirza Abbas Uddin Ahmed". Dhaka Bank Limited . Retrieved 7 April 2015.
10. "BNP's Mirza Abbas joins mayoral race". The Daily Star. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
11. "The people are suffocated: Mirza Abbas". Prothom Alo . 11 August 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
12. "Mirza Abbas gets 8yrs for tax offences". The Daily Star. 12 May 2008. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
13. "Graft case: HC clears way for trial of Mirza Abbas". The Daily Star. 30 March 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
14. "BNP's Mirza Abbas freed on bail". The Daily Star. 4 April 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
15. "Graft: Mirza Abbas indicted, trial Jan 1". The Daily Star. 20 October 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
16. "Mirza Abbas free to walk out of jail". The Daily Star. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
17. "Mirza Abbas acquitted of corruption charges in asset concealment case". Dhaka Tribune . 29 August 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
18. "Mirza Abbas acquitted in another graft case". The Daily Star. 29 August 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
19. "Abbas lands in jail after surrender". The Daily Star. 6 January 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
20. "Mirza Abbas walks out of jail". The Business Standard . 19 February 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
21. "Mirza Abbas free to walk from jail". banglanews24.com (in Bengali). 19 February 2024. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
22. "Freeze Tk 21cr property of Afroza Abbas". The Daily Star. 23 January 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
23. "Wife of Mirza Abbas jailed for 16yrs". The Daily Star. 3 September 2007. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
24. "Mirza Abbas donates SEID". The New Nation. 6 July 2014. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2015.

External links

• Media related to Mirza Abbas at Wikimedia Commons