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Syed Mahibul Hasan

Syed Mahibul Hasan
সৈয়দ মহিবুল হাসান
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament
for Sylhet-16 (now defunct)
In office
18 February 1979 – 12 February 1982
Preceded byGias Uddin Chowdhury
Succeeded bySyed Mohammad Qaisar
Personal details
Born1924 (1924)
Narapati, Sylhet district, British India
Political partyPakistan Muslim League
Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Jatiya Party
ChildrenSyeda Rizwana Hasan

Syed Mahibul Hasan was a Bangladeshi politician. He served as a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Sylhet-16 (now defunct) constituency and later joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, serving as a minister under President Ziaur Rahman.

Early life and education

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Hasan was born in 1924 at Narapati village in what was then Sylhet district of British India (now under Chunarughat Union of Habiganj District, Bangladesh).[1][2] He earned a B. A. from Calcutta University and became a lawyer.[1]

Career

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Hasan stood as a Muslim League candidate in the 1962 Pakistani provincial election, winning a seat in the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly.[1] In the 1965 Pakistani provincial election he contested the PE-117 Sylhet-VII seat. It was won by Syed Sayeed-ud-Din Ahmad.[3]

Hasan contested the Sylhet-III (Bahubal, Chunarghat, and Srimangal) constituency of the National Assembly in 1970 as an independent candidate. A. K. Latifur Rahman Chowdhury of the Awami League won the seat by a wide margin.[4]

Hasan competed in the 1979 Bangladeshi general election as an independent candidate, winning a seat in the Sylhet-16 constituency.[5] He later joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and served as the Minister of Labour in the cabinet of President Ziaur Rahman. During the presidency of Abdus Sattar, Hasan served as the State Minister of Industries and Commerce.[6][7] In the 1986 Bangladeshi general election, he independently contested for the Habiganj-3 constituency but lost to National Awami Party politician Chowdhury Abdul Hai. Hasan later joined the Jatiya Party, but retired from politics following the 1990 Mass Uprising.

He died before May 2015, and is buried in Narapati village, Chunarughat Upazila, Habiganj District, Bangladesh.[8][9]

Personal life

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Hasan was married to Suraiya Hasan and they had a daughter, Rizwana Hasan. Rizwana is a lawyer and environmentalist.[10][11]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Nuruzzaman, Mohammad (1968). Who's Who. The Eastern Publications. pp. 262–263. OCLC 46205.
  2. ^ "Famous Person". Chunarughat Union. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
  3. ^ "Election Results". Pakistan Observer. 17 May 1965. p. 8.
  4. ^ "East Pakistan Results". Pakistan Observer. 9 December 1970. p. 10.
  5. ^ "List of 2nd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  6. ^ চুনারুঘাট-মাধবপুরবাসী মন্ত্রী পেল ৪ জন মাহবুব আলী বিমান ও পর্যটন প্রতিমন্ত্রী. Prothom Sheba (in Bengali). 11 January 2019. Archived from the original on 10 September 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
  7. ^ Daily Report: South Asia. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 1982. p. 57.
  8. ^ সাবেক সচিব রিচি গ্রামের সৈয়দ আতাউর রহমান আর নেই. Habiganj Express (in Bengali). 26 April 2015. ১৯৮০ সালে শ্রম ও জনশক্তি প্রতিমন্ত্রি মরহুম সৈয়দ মহিবুল হাসান এর একান্ত সচিব ছিলেন [In 1980, he was the private secretary to the late Syed Mohibul Hasan, Minister of Labor and Manpower.]
  9. ^ Suman, Nur Uddin (24 August 2024). পিতার কবর জিয়ারতে উপদেষ্টা সৈয়দা রিজওয়ানা হাসান [Advisor Syeda Rizwana Hasan visits her father's grave]. Dainik Sylhet (in Bengali).
  10. ^ সামাজিক মাধ্যমে বিতর্কের ঝড়. Kaler Kantho (in Bengali). 21 April 2014. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  11. ^ Or-Rashid, Harun- (13 March 2024). Understanding Fifty Years of Bangladesh Politics: Struggles, Achievements, and Challenges. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-040-00415-9.
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