Mohammad Mahbubuzzaman

Last updated

Mohammad Mahbubuzzaman was a Bangladeshi bureaucrat, Cabinet Secretary, and government minister.

Contents

Early life

Mahbubuzzaman was born on 25 November 1929 in Rajshahi, Rajshahi District, East Bengal, British India. [1] He graduated from Rajshahi Loknath High School. [1] He studied at Tejgaon Agriculture College and worked as the Superintendent of Dhaka Farms. [1]

Career

In 1954, Mahbubuzzaman joined the Pakistan Civil Service. [1] He served as the Sub-Divisional Officer of Nilphamari District. [1] He served as the Deputy Commissioner of Rangpur District. [1] He has served as the Registrar of the Department of Cooperatives. [1]

Mahbubuzzaman is a former chairman of the Bangladesh Tea Board. [1] He was the second person to become Secretary at the Ministry of Public Administration. [1] He went on to become Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs. [1] On 24 November 1986, he retired from the civil service. [1]

Following the death of the member of parliament of Naogaon-3, Mohammad Baitullah, Mahbubuzzaman contested the following by-election and was elected to parliament. [1]

Mahbubuzzaman was the cabinet secretary of during the government of General Hussain Mohammad Ershad. [2] He joined the cabinet of Ershad after retiring from government service, as a minister. [2] He served as the Minister of Agriculture from 1988 to 1990. [3]

In 1990s, Mahbubuzzaman was the first chairman of Social Marketing Company and chairman of Aziz and Company. [1] He was a member of Retired Government Employees Welfare Association and Bangladesh Medical Studies and Research Institute. [1]

Personal life

Mahbubuzzaman has two sons. His eldest son, Colonel Mohammad Anisuzzaman, was the Bangladesh Rifles Mymensingh Sector Commander and his youngest son, Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman, lives in the United States is a vice president of Bank of America in New York City. [4] Colonel Mohammad Anisuzzaman was killed in the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles Mutiny. [5]

Death

Mahbubuzzaman died on 3 March 2008. [4] He was buried in Banani military graveyard. [1] In 2009, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina awarded him Krishibid award posthumously. [1] A nighborhood of his village was named after him and Sapahar Zaman Nagar Girls High School was founded after his name. [1]

Related Research Articles

Abdul Qasim Mohammad Badruddoza Chowdhury served as the President of Bangladesh from 14 November 2001 until his resignation on 21 June 2002. He was the founding secretary-general of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hussain Muhammad Ershad</span> President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990

Hussain Muhammad Ershad was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the president of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990, a time many consider to have been a military dictatorship.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Abdus Sattar (president)</span> Bangladeshi politician and statesman (1906–1985)

Abdus Sattar was a Bangladeshi statesman. A leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), he served as the President of Bangladesh from 1981 to 1982, and earlier as the Vice President of Bangladesh. A jurist by profession, Sattar held numerous constitutional and political offices in British India, East Pakistan and Bangladesh. He was a cabinet minister, supreme court judge, and chief election commissioner.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jatiya Party (Ershad)</span> Political party in Bangladesh

The Jatiya Party is a centre-right, conservative, nationalist political party in Bangladesh and is currently the main opposition in the Jatiya Sangsad, against the Awami League. The current chairman of the party is Ghulam Muhammad Quader. On 3 January 2019, the party announced its decision to join the Bangladesh Awami League-led Grand Alliance after having been in opposition for the previous parliamentary term. However, the party backtracked the next day and announced that it intended to remain part of the opposition. Currently, it holds Rangpur out of Bangladesh's 12 city corporations.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dewan Farid Gazi</span> Bangladeshi politician

Dewan Farid Gazi was a Bangladeshi politician born in Devpara, Nabiganj Upazila, Sylhet. He was elected as Member of Parliament for the Habiganj-1 (Nabigonj-Bahubal) constituency in 1996, 2001 and 2008, representing the Awami League, of which he was an Advisory Council member. He served as chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir</span> Bangladeshi politician

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is a Bangladeshi politician. He has been the secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) since 2016. He was a member of the parliament for Thakurgaon-1 constituency from 2001 to 2006. In that term, he was also appointed as the Minister of State in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture and later Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">GM Quader</span> Bangladeshi politician and Co-leader of the Opposition

Ghulam Muhammed Quader, better known as GM Quader, is a Bangladeshi politician and the current chairperson of Jatiya Party. He is the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member from the Lalmonirhat-3 constituency. He served as the Minister of Commerce and Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism from 2009 to 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Muhammad Yusuf Ali</span> Bangladeshi politician ‍and former minister

Muhammad Yusuf Ali was a Bangladesh politician. He was the first minister for Education and Cultural Affairs in the first cabinet of Bangladesh.

Naziur Rahman Manzur was a Bangladesh Jatiya Party politician, founding chairman of the party, former government minister in the cabinet of Hussain Mohammad Ershad and the first mayor of Dhaka City Corporation.

Mohammad Shafiul Alam is a civil servant in Bangladesh. He was the country's 21st Cabinet Secretary. He is World Bank Group Alternate Executive Director representing Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka since November 2019.

Shawfikul Ghaani Swapan was a Bangladeshi politician and the former chairman of Bangladesh National Awami Party-Bangladesh NAP. During his political career, he served as a Member of Parliament twice, and held cabinet positions in both the Zia and Ershad Governments. His positions included serving as the State Minister of Defence, State Minister of Youth and Sports, Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism, and Minister of Housing and Public Works.

Shah Moazzem Hossain was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the last Deputy Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He was elected as the Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Rangpur-6 constituency as a Jatiya Party candidate in a by-election in September 1991 and served until November 1995.

Mohammad Khorshed Anwar was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a government minister of Bangladesh. He was a five-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Comilla-1 and Comilla-2 constituencies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu</span> Bangladeshi politician (1954–2021)

Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu was a Bangladeshi politician of the Jatiya Party and served as the Secretary General for two terms. He was a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Chittagong-9 constituency at the 10th Jatiya Sangsad and the Chittagong-6 constituency at the 4th Jatiya Sangsad. He served as the Cabinet Minister for Energy during Ershad's regime in the 1980s. He was appointed an advisor to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in November 2013.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tariqul Islam</span> Bangladeshi politician

Tariqul Islam was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He served as the Cabinet Minister of Ministry of Food, Ministry of Information and Ministry of Environment and Forest in the Second Khaleda Cabinet. He represented the Jessore-3 constituency in the 6th and 8th Jatiya Sangsad.

Moyez Uddin was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member.

Sardar Amjad Hossain was a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and the former Member of Parliament of Rajshahi-3.

Mirza Ruhul Amin was a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and the former Member of Parliament of Thakurgaon-2. His son, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, is the Secretary General of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kabir Bin Anwar</span>

Kabir Bin Anwar is a retired Bangladeshi civil servant. He was the 23rd Cabinet Secretary of Bangladesh Government, serving for a short period of time from 15 December 2022 until he went to post-retirement vacation 3 January 2023. Prior to that, he was Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources. Anwar is the chairperson of the Board of Directors of Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services. He is the President of Bangladesh Administrative Service Association. He is the chairperson of non-profit Issabela foundation, named after his mother. He was appointed as a co-chairman of the Awami League's Election Administration Committee on 5 January 2023.

Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah is a Bangladeshi civil servant and chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission. During his term Anti-Corruption Commission officials raised complaints against the top management of the commission coming from Bangladesh Civil Service and operating under different rules from regular staff of the commission.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Zaman, Md Ahsan-uz (2021-03-04). "An illustrious civil servant and social worker". The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-10-19.
  2. 1 2 "Former minister Mahbubuzzaman dies at 82". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  3. ↑ Paxton, J. (2016). The Statesman's Year-Book 1988-89. Springer. p. 185. ISBN   9780230271173 . Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  4. 1 2 "Mahbubuzzaman passes away". The Daily Star. 4 March 2008. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  5. ↑ "DDG among 17 officers confirmed dead". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.