Khan Mohammad Nurul Huda (born 1948) is a retired

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of the

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and served as the Chief Election Commissioner of Bangladesh from 2017 to 2022. He was a freedom fighter during the

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. He is a former chief executive officer of Dhaka City Corporation. He also served as joint secretary of the Ministry of Environment and Forests and additional secretary to the

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of Bangladeshi Parliament.

Early life and education

Khan Mohammad Nurul Huda was born in 1948 at Nowmala, Bauphal Upazila in

Patuakhali Patuakhali ( ''Potuakhali'') is a town and district headquarters of Patuakhali District located on the southern bank of Laukathi river in Barisal Division in Bangladesh. It is the administrative headquarter of Patuakhali district and one of the ...

district. Huda completed his schooling in

. He obtained his graduation and master's in Statistics from the

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. Huda also studied Public Administration and Advanced Studies at the

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, and pursued further studies in the then

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Career

Huda took part in

from sector-9. Huda is a

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cadre of 1973's Freedom Fighter batch. He served as the Deputy Commissioner and District Magistrate of Cumilla and Faridpur districts. In 2006 he was forced to retire from the public service during the

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-Jamaat-led alliance government from 2001 to 2006 even before he became the secretary but a Supreme Court ruling gave him the status of secretary. Huda worked as the director, administration and human resources, for Gemcon Ltd. He also served as the chairman of North West Zone Power Distribution Company Ltd, and the managing director of Bangladesh Municipal Development Fund. President

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appointed Huda as the Chief Election Commissioner of Bangladesh on February 6, 2017. He took oath as the new CEC on February 15, 2017. While serving as the Chief Election Commissioner, Huda's nephew,

SM Shahjada SM Shahjada (born 15 January 1974) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Patuakhali-3 constituency. Career Shahjada was elected to parliament from Patuakhali-3 as a Bangladesh Awami League c ...

, was elected to parliament from

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as an Awami League candidate in 2018 general elections. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party called for his resignation due to the conflict of interest. In January 2022, Huda called his fellow Election Commissioner, Mahbub Talukdar, a ''"liar"'' after Talukdar criticized violence during elections.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Huda, KM Nurul 1948 births Living people Chief Election Commissioners of Bangladesh People from Patuakhali district University of Dhaka alumni Alumni of the University of Manchester