Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin | |
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মীর মোহাম্মদ নাসিরুদ্দিন | |
State Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism | |
In office 10 October 2001 – 17 November 2005 | |
Prime Minister | Khaleda Zia |
Preceded by | Sayed Ashraful Islam |
Succeeded by | Md. Mahbub Ali |
2nd Mayor of Chittagong | |
In office 1 May 1991 – 20 December 1993 | |
Preceded by | Mahmudul Islam Chowdhury |
Succeeded by | A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury |
Personal details | |
Born | Chittagong, East Pakistan |
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Political party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Residence | Chittagong |
Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin ( Bengali: মীর মোহাম্মদ নাসিরুদ্দিন) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former State Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism. [1]
Nasiruddin served as the State Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism in the Second Khaleda Cabinet. [2] He was the Four-party Alliance candidate in the 2005 Chittagong Mayoral election. He was defeated by the incumbent Mayor A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury of the Bangladesh Awami League. [3] He is an adviser of Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chairperson and former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia. [4] On 5 May 2017, he met the chief Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Shah Ahmad Shafi, at Hathazari Madrasa, Chittagong. [5]
On 12 July 2007, Nasiruddin was jailed by a special Anti-Corruption court for corruption along with his son Mir Mohammed Helal Uddin for 13 years. [6] Bangladesh High Court nullified the sentences in August 2010. On 3 July 2014, Bangladesh Supreme Court scrapped the High Court order that acquitted him of all charges. [7]