| AKM Mozammel Haque | |
| Office: | Minister for Liberation War Affairs |
| Term Start: | 5 January 2014 |
| Term End: | 6 August 2024 |
| Predecessor: | Shajahan Khan |
| Office1: | Minister of Religious Affairs |
| Term Start1: | 11 December 2018 |
| Term End1: | 6 January 2019 |
| Successor1: | Motiur Rahman |
| Constituency Mp2: | Gazipur-1 |
| Parliament2: | Bangladesh |
| Term Start2: | 25 January 2009 |
| Term End2: | 6 August 2024 |
| Predecessor2: | Md. Rahamat Ali |
| Birth Date: | 1 October 1946 |
| Birth Place: | Gazipur District, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Party: | Bangladesh Awami League |
AKM Mozammel Haque (born 1 October 1946) is a politician from Bangladesh, representing the Bangladesh Awami League party. He was the Minister for Liberation War Affairs from 2014 to 2024[1] [2] and is also a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Gazipur-1 constituency.[3] [4]
Haque was born on 1 October 1946 in Dakhina Khan, Gazipur Sadar Upazila, Gazipur District to Anwar Ali and Rabeya Khatun.[5]
Haque was a member of the East Pakistan Chhatra League Central Working Committee. He fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971 and was part of the Mukti Bahini. From 1973 to 1986, he was elected Upazila chairman three times and four times municipal mayor. He was elected to the parliament from Gazipur-1 in 2008. He was elected unopposed from the same constituency in the 2014 elections which the opposition boycotted citing unfair conditions for the election.[6] He acted as the religious minister of Bangladesh from 2018 to 2019. In 2019, he was appointed the Minister for Liberation War Affairs.
In 1974, Mozammel was implicated in the abduction and gang rape of a newlywed housewife, whose driver and husband were killed. Her body was found three days later near a bridge in Tongi. Although arrested by Lance Major Nasser and handed over to the police, Mozammel was released, reportedly due to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's intervention.
Anthony Mascarenhas briefly mentioned Mozammel's involvement in this crime in his 1986 book .[7]
The incident has been also depicted in novel Deyal by Humayun Ahmed.
During the independence war of Bangladesh, he worked as a freedom fighter of Gazipur and an organizer of the liberation war. On March 19, 1971, in the first war of resistance in Gazipur, he led the frontal war against Brigadier Jahan Zeb under the orders of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the convener of the Armed Resistance Committee.[8]