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Abdul Matin Khasru
আবদুল মতিন খসরু
Khasru in 2018
Minister of Law and Justice
In office
14 January 1997 – 15 July 2001
Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina
Preceded byMirza Ghulam Hafiz
Succeeded byMoudud Ahmed
Member of Parliament
for Comilla-5
In office
5 March 1991 – 24 November 1995
Preceded byMohammad Yunus
In office
14 July 1996 – 13 July 2001
Preceded byMujibur Rahman
In office
25 January 2009 – 14 April 2021
Preceded byMohammad Yunus
Personal details
Born(1950-02-12)12 February 1950
Comilla District, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
Died14 April 2021(2021-04-14) (aged 71)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyBangladesh Awami League
Alma materComilla Victoria Government College
OccupationLawyer, Politician

Abdul Matin Khasru (12 February 1950 – 14 April 2021)[1][2][3] was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He was a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Comilla-5 constituency during 1991–1995, 1996–2001 and 2009–2021.[4][5][6][7] He served in the first Hasina cabinet as Minister of Law and Justice from 1997 until 2001.[8]

Personal life

Khasru completed his SSC from Madhabpur High School in 1967.[9] He got admitted to Comilla Victoria Government College and completed graduation in 1970.[10] They were four brothers and three sisters of whom he was the eldest. His father served in the Pakistan Army. His son Munem Wasif is a photojournalist who works at Agence Vu photography agency.[11] Khasru was actively involved in politics since his student life. When he was a graduate student, the Bangladesh Liberation War started. Khasru fought in Burichang in Comilla District during the war.[2]

Career

Khasru started his legal practice at the District and Sessions Judges Court, Comilla in 1978.[2] Later he started practicing in the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1982. He founded a law firm Abdul Matin Khasru & Associates in Dhaka.

Khasru was a senior advocate enrolled at the Bangladesh Bar Council. He was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Bangladesh Bar Council in 2015.[12]

On 16 March 2021, he won the Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association Election 2021-2022 as the president from the White Panel backed by the Bangladesh Awami League. He died before taking charge.[13][14]

Political career

Khasru was first elected to Parliament in 1991 from Comilla-5 on a nomination of Awami League defeating the incumbent, Mohammad Yunus of the Jatiya Party. He was re-elected in 1996.[15]

Khasru stood for re-election in 2001 but lost to Mohammad Yunus who had then been nominated by Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[16]

Khasru was elected to the parliament in 2008 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.[16] He headed the Parliamentarians' Caucus on Disability during the 9th parliamentary sessions.[17] On 23 March 2011, he criticised the use of "vulgar" words by members of parliament in the Jatiya Sangshad.[18]

Khasru was re-elected to the parliament in 2014 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.[16] In 2015, he was made the law secretary of Bangladesh Awami League.[19] He became a member of the party's Presidium in 2017.[20]

Khasru was re-elected to the parliament in 2018 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.[16] He was the president of the parliamentary standing committee on law. He summoned the Anti-Corruption Commission to parliament over its failure to take action against the former chairperson of BASIC Bank, Sheikh Abdul Hai Bacchu, on loans scams.[21]

On 10 April 2020, Mosheur Mahfuz Babu, journalist and owner of Times of Cumilla, was arrested under the Digital Security Act for spreading "rumours" about Khasru. The website had reported Khasru's death.[22] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, Khasru provided food aid to 5000 families in Comilla in April 2020.[23]

Death

Khasru died on 14 April 2021, after contracting COVID-19. He was under treatment at the Combined Military Hospital.[2] He had a son Munem Wasif and a daughter.

References

  1. ^ "Constituency 253_10th_En". Bangladesh Parliament. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  2. ^ a b c d "Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru dies of COVID". bdnews24.com. Archived from the original on 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  3. ^ "Supreme Court Bar president Abdul Matin Khasru dies of Covid-19". The Business Standard. 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  4. ^ "Constituency 253". Bangladesh Parliament. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  5. ^ "List of 5th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament.
  6. ^ "Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 2008-12-29. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  7. ^ "List of 9th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament.
  8. ^ "Honorable Minister". Law and Justice Division. Archived from the original on 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
  9. ^ Abdul Matin Khasru MP, retrieved 2021-04-15
  10. ^ ৩৬৫ সেকেন্ড রাজনীতি নয়, retrieved 2021-04-15
  11. ^ "Ex-law minister Abdul Matin Khasru laid to rest". Daily Bangladesh.
  12. ^ "Abdul Matin Khasru made bar council chairman". Dhaka Tribune. 18 October 2015. Archived from the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  13. ^ সুপ্রিম কোর্টে বারের দায়িত্ব নিয়েছেন নব নির্বাচিত কমিটি. lawyersclubbangladesh (in Bengali). 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  14. ^ "Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru dies". Dhaka Tribune. 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  15. ^ "Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". 2008-12-29. Archived from the original on 2008-12-29. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  16. ^ a b c d "Cumilla-5 - Constituency detail of Bangladesh General Election 2018". The Daily Star. 2018-11-25. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  17. ^ "CRP's activities unique, imitable". The Daily Star. 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  18. ^ "Uproar in JS over diatribes". The Daily Star. 2011-03-23. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  19. ^ Siddique, Mohammad Abu Bakar (25 October 2016). "AL central working committee names declared". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  20. ^ "Ex-law minister Khasru made AL Presidium Member, Rezaul Legal Affairs Secretary". bdnews24.com. 22 July 2017.
  21. ^ "Basic Bank scam: JS body summons ACC for not taking action against Bacchu". The Daily Star. 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  22. ^ "Digital Security Act: Journo jailed in Cumilla for spreading rumours". The Daily Star. 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  23. ^ "AL lawmaker Khasru extends food aid to 5,000 families in Cumilla". The Daily Star. 2020-04-24. Retrieved 2021-04-14.

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