Shahiduzzaman Sarker | |
Native Name: | শহীদুজ্জামান সরকার |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | Minister of State for Planning |
Termstart: | 1 March 2024 |
Termend: | 5 August 2024 |
Primeminister: | Sheikh Hasina |
Minister: | Abdus Salam |
Constituency Mp1: | Naogaon-2 |
Parliament: | Bangladesh |
Term Start1: | 25 January 2009 |
Term End1: | 6 August 2024 |
Term Start2: | 1991 |
Term End2: | 1995 |
Predecessor1: | SM Nuruzzaman |
Successor1: | Shamsuzzoha Khan |
Birth Place: | Naogaon District, East Pakistan, Pakistan |
Birth Date: | 13 December 1955 |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami League |
Relations: | Abbas Ali Mandal (father-in-law) |
Shahiduzzaman Sarker is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing Naogaon-2 constituency. He is a former Minister of State for Ministry of Planning. Sarkar previously served as the Whip of Treasury Bench of the Parliament of Bangladesh.[1] On 1 May 2020, he became the first member of the Bangladesh Parliament to test positive for COVID-19.[2]
Sarkar was born on 13 December 1955.[3]
Sarker was elected to the parliament from Naogaon-2 in 1991 as a candidate of Bangladesh Awami League.[4] He was re-elected in 2008.[5] He was elected unopposed in 2014 after the main opposition, Bangladesh Nationalist Party, boycotted the election.[6] He was made the parliamentary whip on 25 January 2014.[7]