Kazi Abdul Kader Explained

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]

Early life

Kader was born in 1914 in Rangpur, British India.

Political career

Pakistan

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.

Bangladesh

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]

Personal life

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.

Death

Kader died on 2 October 2002 in his Gulshan residence in Dhaka. He died from old-age complications at the age of 88.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: List of 1st Parliament Members . Bangladesh Parliament . bn . https://web.archive.org/web/20180909153327/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp/1st.pdf . 9 September 2018.
  2. Web site: List of 3rd Parliament Members . Bangladesh Parliament . bn . https://web.archive.org/web/20180918080059/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp/3rd.pdf . 18 September 2018.
  3. Web site: List of 2nd Parliament Members . Bangladesh Parliament . bn . 1 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180904090815/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp/2nd.pdf . 4 September 2018.
  4. Web site: Local News on Bangladesh . sdnbd.org . 1 February 2019.
  5. Web site: 'No vote' campaign against anti-liberation elements . 8 December 2008 . The Daily Star . 1 February 2019.
  6. Web site: Member's of 2nd Parliament of Bangladesh . Bangladesh Affairs . 1 February 2019.
  7. Web site: Bangladesh Parliament Election – Electoral Area Results Comparison . Amar Desh . 1 February 2019.