Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin | |
Native Name: | মীর মোহাম্মদ নাসিরুদ্দিন |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | State Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism |
Term Start: | 10 October 2001 |
Term End: | 17 November 2005 |
Primeminister: | Khaleda Zia |
Predecessor: | Sayed Ashraful Islam |
Successor: | Md. Mahbub Ali |
Office1: | 2nd Mayor of Chittagong |
Term Start1: | 1 May 1991 |
Term End1: | 20 December 1993 |
Predecessor1: | Mahmudul Islam Chowdhury |
Successor1: | A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury |
Party: | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Birth Place: | Chittagong, East Pakistan |
Residence: | Chittagong |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin (Bengali: মীর মোহাম্মদ নাসিরুদ্দিন) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former state minister of civil aviation and tourism.[1]
Nasiruddin served as the state minister of civil aviation and tourism in the second Khaleda Zia cabinet.[2] He was the Four-party Alliance candidate in the 2005 Chittagong mayoral election. He was defeated by the incumbent mayor A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury of the Bangladesh Awami League.[3] He is an adviser of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson and former prime minister of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia.[4] On 5 May 2017, he met the chief of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Shah Ahmad Shafi, at Hathazari Madrasa, Chittagong.[5]
On 12 July 2007, Nasiruddin was jailed by a special anti-corruption court for corruption along with his son Mir Mohammed Helal Uddin for 13 years.[6] The Bangladesh High Court nullified the sentences in August 2010. On 3 July 2014, the Bangladesh Supreme Court scrapped the High Court order that acquitted him of all charges.[7]