AKM Mozammel Haque (politician)
AKM Mozammel Haque | |
|---|---|
.jpg) 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 December 2018 – 6 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 | 1 October 1946 Gazipur District, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Political party | Bangladesh Awami League |
AKM Mozammel Haque (born 1 October 1946) is a politician from Bangladesh, representing the Bangladesh Awami League party. He has been the Minister for Liberation War Affairs since 2014[1][2] and is also an MP for the Gazipur-1 constituency.[3][4]
Early life
[edit]Haque was born on 1 October 1946 in Dakhina Khan, Gazipur Sadar Upazila, Gazipur District to Anwar Ali and Rabeya Khatun.[5]
Career
[edit]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]
Controversy
[edit]In 1974, Mozammel was implicated in the seizure of a car belonging to a newlywed housewife. During the incident, her driver and husband were killed, and she was reportedly abducted and gang-raped. Three days later, her body was found near a bridge in Tongi. Mozammel was arrested by Major Nasser, a leader of a squadron of the Bengal Lancers, and handed over to the police, but he was subsequently released. It is claimed that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman intervened, resulting in Mozammel's release without punishment for the crime.[7]
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.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ "Anisul: Qamrul, Mozammel need not to resign". Dhaka Tribune. 7 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Mozammel demands Zia's DNA test". Prothom Alo. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Lack of management mounts sufferings for holidaymakers". Dhaka Tribune. 11 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ "Shishu Park to be removed from Shahbagh". The Daily Star. 8 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ^ a b "Honorable Minister". molwa.gov.bd. Retrieved 25 July 2018.
- ^ "Bangladesh opposition to boycott elections". Al Jazeera. 2 December 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ a b Mascarenhas, Anthony (1986). Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood. Hodder and Stoughton. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-340-39420-5.
