AKM Mozammel Haque | |
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![]() AKM Mozammel in 2017 | |
Minister for Liberation War Affairs | |
Assumed office 5 January 2014 | |
Preceded by | Shajahan Khan |
Minister of Religious Affairs | |
In office 11 Decomber 2018 –06 January 2019 | |
Succeeded by | Motiur Rahman |
Member of Parliament | |
Assumed office 25 January 2009 | |
Preceded by | Md. Rahamat Ali |
Constituency | Gazipur-1 |
President of Gazipur Awami League | |
Assumed office 29 June 2003 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Gazipur District,Bengal Presidency,British India | 1 October 1946
Political party | Bangladesh Awami League |
Mozammel Haque (born 1 October 1946) is a Bangladesh Awami League Politician and the Minister for Liberation War Affairs of Bangladesh since 2014. [1] [2] [3] [4] Mozammal is a Member of Parliament for Gazipur-1 constituency.
Haque was born on 1 October 1946 in Dakhina Khan,Gazipur Sadar Upazila,Gazipur District to Anwar Ali and Rabeya Khatun. [5]
Haque was a member of the East Pakistan Chhatra League Central Working Committee. He fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971 and was part of the Mukti Bahini. From 1973 to 1986,he was elected Upazila chairman three times and four times municipal mayor. He was elected to the parliament from Gazipur-1 in 2008. He was elected unopposed from the same constituency in the 2014 elections which the opposition boycotted citing unfair conditions for the election. [6] He acted as the religious minister of Bangladesh from 2018 to 2019. In 2019,he was appointed the Minister for Liberation War Affairs. [5]
In his 1986 book Bangladesh:A Legacy of Blood,Anthony Mascarenhas wrote Mozammel was involved in a gang-rape of a newlywed wife in 1974. [7]
The incident has been also depicted in novel Deyal by Humayun Ahmed.
Gazipur is a district in central Bangladesh that is part of the Dhaka Division. It has an area of 1741.53 km2. It is the home district of Tajuddin Ahmad,the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh and has been a prominent centre of battles and movements throughout history. Gazipur is home to the Bishwa Ijtema,the second-largest annual Muslim gathering in the world with over 5 million attendees. The district is home to numerous universities,colleges,the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park,Bhawal National Park as well as the country's only business park - the Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City.
Gazipur is a city in central Bangladesh. Located in Gazipur District,it is a major industrial city 25 km (16 mi) north of Dhaka. It is a hub for the textile industry in Bangladesh,with 75% of all garment industries situated there.
Ziaur Rahman,the sixth president of Bangladesh,was assassinated by a faction of officers of Bangladesh Army,on 30 May 1981,in the south-eastern port city of Chittagong. Rahman went to Chittagong to arbitrate in a clash between the local leaders of his political party,the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. On the night of 30 May,a group of officers commandeered the Chittagong Circuit House,a government residence where Rahman was staying,shooting him and several others.
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