Mofiqul Hasan Tripti is a

Bangladesh Nationalist Party The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (), popularly abbreviated as BNP (), is a major List of political parties in Bangladesh, political party in Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by President of Bangladesh, President Ziaur Rahman, wit ...

politician and a former member of parliament from

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constituency, former BNP Central Committee Office Secretary and a member of the BNP National Executive Committee.

Early life

Mofiqul Hasan Tripti was born on 20 February 1960 in Baganchara, Sanatankathi village of

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. His father's name is Tofazzal Hossain and his mother's name is Rizia Khatun. Veteran politician and former late MP Ali Tareq is his uncle. Tripti completed his SSC from Baganchara United School in 1975, passed his HSC from

Michael Madhusudan College Michael Madhusudan College (), in Jessore District, is one of the largest educational institutions in Khulna Division, Bangladesh. The college is named after famed educationalist and intellectual Michael Madhusudan Dutt. It has about 26,000 stu ...

in 1977. He obtained his Bachelors and Master's degree in soil science from

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with honors.

Career

Tripti started his political career with the

Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatradal (; abbreviated as JCD), popularly known as Chatradal or Chatra Dal, is a Bangladeshi student organisation affiliated with Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Many of the top BNP leaders and policy-makers today we ...

. As a student at the

he was actively involved in the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He lived in the historic Salimullah Muslim Hall of

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while as a student and also served as SM Hall's president and Dhaka University Chatra Dal committee's joint convener. He also served as

central committee's joint secretary and later joint vice-president. Afterwards, Tripti became a member of BNP's central national executive committee and served as its research and information secretary and later as its joint office secretary. Tripti was the Office Secretary of Central Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party during the second Khaleda cabinet. He was elected to parliament on 15 February 1996 from Jessore-1 as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was nominated as a candidate for BNP from Jessore-1 in the 2018 national elections.

Arrests

He was arrested in Jessore Airport on 23 May 2011 after carrying a licensed but loaded gun into the airport. Shafiullah, assistant police superintendent of Jessore, said the gun was licensed but Tripti broke the law by carrying a loaded gun in airport. The Bangladesh Members of Parliament Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito, Mostafa Faruk Mohammad, and Narayon Chandra Chanda were present in the airport. On 9 August 2018, Tripti was arrested from his home in Banani, Dhaka over the 2006 murder of professor Aftab Ahmed, a vice-Chancellor of National University and a senior professor of political science at the

. On 23 September 2006, three unidentified youths shot Ahmed entering his Fuller Road residence in the university campus. CID’s Dhaka metropolitan (south) Special Superintendent of Police (SSP) Enamul Kabir confirmed to the

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that Tripti was not an accused in the murder case yet and was taken into custody because his name had come up in the statement of one of the four suspects arrested in 2008. He received bail after serving two months in jail.

Controversy

During the 2006-2008 Bangladesh political crisis, Tripti was one of many BNP mainstream and central National Executive Committee leaders who supported the then expelled secretary general

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in party reforms. During Khaleda Zia's absence from the party due to her arrest, BNP's then new secretary general

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expelled office secretary Tripti from the party. Delwar made Ruhul Kabir Rizvi acting office secretary who was the assistant office secretary before Tripti’s expulsion. Tripti later told the Daily Star, "According to the party constitution, only the chairperson can expel a member of the party's national executive committee." He also added that no one has the right to cancel his membership from the party except the chairperson. Later, Tripti's expulsion order was withdrawn by incumbent secretary general

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on 19 November 2017.

Family

Tripti is married to Shukria Kamal, a fellow alumni of the

. She currently works as a deputy controller in Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU). The couple have two sons.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tripti, Mofiqul Hasan Living people Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 6th Jatiya Sangsad members 1960 births Place of birth missing (living people)