| Kazi Abdul Kader | |
| Office: | Minister of Food & Agriculture East Pakistan |
| Office2: | Member of Jatiya Sangsad Rangpur-3 |
| Term Start2: | February 1979 |
| Term End2: | March 1982 |
| Predecessor2: | Ali Ukil[1] |
| Successor2: | Shawfiqul Ghaani Shapan[2] |
| Birth Date: | 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Rangpur, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Death Date: | 2 October 2002 (aged 88) |
| Death Place: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Party: | Muslim League (Qayyum) (until 1971) Bangladesh Muslim League (since 1976) |
| Spouse: | Lutfa Kader |
| Children: | Kazi Faruque Kader |
| Nationality: | British Indian (1914–1947) Pakistani (1947–1971) Bangladeshi (1971–2002) |
| Occupation: | Politician |
Kazi Abdul Kader (1914–2002) was a Pakistani and later Bangladeshi politician. He served as a Minister and a Member of Parliament in both the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly and Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad.[3] [4]
Kader was born in 1914 in Rangpur, British India.
Kader served as a Central Minister in the Government of East Pakistan. He was the Food and Agriculture Minister of the erstwhile East Pakistan Government and a Leader of the Convention Muslim League.[5] He allegedly opposed the independence of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh Liberation War. As a result, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman cancelled his citizenship in 1972, and stripped him off his lands and property and Kader remained stranded in Karachi. He returned to Bangladesh after 1975 when these allegations could not be proved and joined the revived Bangladesh Muslim League. However, despite several attempts by his descendants, the Government of Bangladesh would not return the property grabbed under false accusations.
Kazi Abdul Kader later served as the president of the Bangladesh Muslim League in Bangladesh. Kader contested the second Bangladeshi general election in 1979 on a ticket from the Muslim League. He contested from the seat Rangpur-3 and won the constituency.[6] He contested again from the Muslim League during the 1991 Bangladeshi general election, this time from Nilphamari-3. He came in fifth place with 4,834 votes (4.34%).[7]
Kader was married twice. His first wife was Lutfa Kader from Murshidabad, West Bengal, India and he had six sons and one daughter with her. She is believed to be a ; in Persian sejˈjede/) is an honorific title denoting people accepted as descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. His second wife was Nawabzadi Kaniz Fatema of the Dhaka nawab family. Kader's eldest son is Kazi Faruque Kader. Faruq is a Freedom Fighter and served as the member of parliament twice from Nilphamari-3, the last time being from 2008 to 2014.
Kader died on 2 October 2002 in his Gulshan residence in Dhaka. He died from old-age complications at the age of 88.