Fakir Abdul Mannan (1901,

Gazipur Gazipur () is a city in central Bangladesh. Located in Gazipur District in Dhaka Division, it is a major industrial city north of Dhaka. It is a hub for the textile industry in Bangladesh, with 75% of all garment industries situated there. ...

- 1994) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and the former Minister of Agriculture of

East Pakistan East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory of the modern country of Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Burma, wit ...

Career

Mannan was involved in the Pakistan Movement as a leader of the Muslim League. He stood for one of the Dhaka seats in the

1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election Legislative elections were held in East Bengal between 8 and 12 March 1954, the first since Pakistan became an independent country in 1947. The opposition United Front led by the All-Pakistan Awami League and Krishak Sramik Party won a landslide ...

, but lost to law student

Tajuddin Ahmad Tajuddin Ahmad (23 July 1925 – 3 November 1975) was a Bangladeshi politician. He led the Provisional Government of Bangladesh, 1st Government of Bangladesh as its Prime Minister of Bangladesh, prime minister during the Bangladesh Liberation W ...

by 13 thousand votes. In 1960, Mannan was the secretary of the Provincial Muslim League. Mannan was the Minister of Food and Agriculture of East Pakistan from 1965 to 1968. He is a former Provincial General Secretary of East Pakistan Muslim League. He also served as the President of East Pakistan Provincial Muslim League and had called Bengalis "crooks that is why they respond to the leadership of a crook".

Personal life

Mannan' son, Hannan Shah, was a former Minister of Bangladesh and his other son,

Shah Abu Nayeem Mominur Rahman Shah Abu Nayeem Mominur Rahman was a justice on the Appellate Division of Bangladesh Supreme Court. He resigned from the Supreme Court after being twice passed over from promotion. Early life Mominur Rahman completed his undergraduate and grad ...

, was a justice of Bangladesh Supreme Court.

Death

Mannan died in 1994. He is buried in Chala Bazar, Gazipur.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mannan Pakistani politicians 20th-century Bangladeshi lawyers 1901 births 1994 deaths People from Gazipur District 20th-century Pakistani lawyers