Sajjadul Hassan

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Sajjadul Hassan
সাজ্জাদুল হাসান
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament
for Netrokona-4
Assumed office
6 August 2023
Relatives Obaidul Hassan (brother)

Sajjadul Hassan (born 11 January 1961) [1] is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Netrokona-4 constituency since August 2023. [2] [3] Prior to this position, he served as a bureaucrat and the chairperson of Bangladesh Biman airlines. [4] He is a former Senior Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office. [5]

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Early life

Sajjad was born on 11 January 1961 in Mohanganj Upazila, Netrokona District. [1] [6] His father, Akhlakul Hossain Ahmed, was a member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly. [6] His brother, Justice Obaidul Hassan, is the 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. [7] He completed his SSC and HSC from Mohanganj Government Pilot High School and Dhaka College respectively. [6] He worked to introduce double shift in Mohanganj Government Pilot High School and renovate Shiyaljani canal in Mohanganj Municipality. [6]

Career

Sajjad had served as the District Commissioner of Cox's Bazar District and Sylhet District. [8] Hassan was made the Personal Secretary-1 to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from the Division Commissioner of Sylhet Division on 25 February 2015. [9] In 2009, four former Awami League members of parliament accused him to misbehave with a veteran freedom fighter while Hassan was serving as the Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet. [10]

On 26 January 2018, Sajjad was promoted from Personal Secretary-1 to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh to the acting secretary of the Prime Minister's Office. [11] Tofazzel Hossain Miah, previously the Director General of the Prime Minister's Office, replaced him as the Personal Secretary-1 to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. [11] [12] He was a special guest at the launching of the call centre service number 333 on 12 April 2018 by Sajeeb Wazed. [13] On 25 December 2019, he was promoted to the rank of Senior Secretary. [14]

Sajjad was appointed the chairperson of the Board of Directors of the state owned Bangladesh Biman airlines on 27 January 2020 by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism. [15] [16] [17] He replaced Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari. [16] Senior Secretary at the Ministry of Aviation, Mohibul Haque, supported steps to keep Biman Bangladesh under government control in 2020 and prevent its privatisation under the chairpersonship of Sajjad. [18] He oversaw a Dash 8-400, named Dhrubatara, aircraft joining the fleet of Bangladesh Biman in 2020 purchased through a government to government agreement between Bangladesh and Canada. [19]

Sajjad is the president of Bangladesh Agricultural Economists Association. [20] [21]

In September 2022, the government broke the trustee board of Manarat International University and created a new board which included Sajjad. [22]

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References

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  6. 1 2 3 4 "Govt appoints Sajjadul Hassan as secretary of PMO". The Financial Express. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
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  10. ↑ "AL men protest 'misbehaviour' by Sylhet DC". The Daily Star. 2009-03-27. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
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