M. A. Mannan

M A MANNAN (known as M A MANNAN) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He is the first elected city mayor of Gazipur City Corporation of Bangladesh.[1] Before that he served as the religious affairs minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1993.[2]

M A Mannan
এম.এ.মান্নান
State Minister of Religious Affairs
In office
1991–1993
Prime MinisterKhaleda Zia
Mayor of Gazipur
In office
1991–1996
Preceded byPosition established
In office
2013–2018
Succeeded byJahangir Alam
Member of Parliament
for Gazipur-2
In office
5 March 1991 – 24 November 1995
Preceded byHasan Uddin Sarkar
Succeeded byAhsanullah Master
Personal details
Born1950
Gazipur, East Pakistan
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyBangladesh Nationalist Party
Alma materUniversity of Dhaka

Career

M A MANNAN was elected Gazipur City Corporation mayor in July 2013 and assumed office in August. In February 2015, police arrested him for his suspected involvement in an arson attack on a bus in Gazipur in February the same year.[3] The next month, panel mayor, local Awami League leader Asadur Rahman Kiron, who was elected a ward councillor, was made acting mayor upon a court directive. Mannan was released from jail in March 2016. He was rearrested in April the same year and released again in January 2017.[4] He rejoined the office in June 2017 but Local Government Division (LGD) suspended him for the third time on 6 July 2017.[5]

References
  1. "Gazipur city Mayor detained". World Times 24. 11 February 2015. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  2. "People will vote for me: Mannan". bdnews24.com. 3 July 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2015.
  3. "GCC Mayor Mannan arrested in city". Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. 11 February 2015. Archived from the original on 25 August 2016. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  4. "Gazipur city mayor suspended again". The Daily Star. 6 July 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
  5. "Suspension, once again". The Daily Star. 7 July 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2018.


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