Mirza Abdul Awal | |
Native Name: | মীর্জা আব্দুল আউয়াল |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | Member of the 2nd Jatiya Sangsad |
Term Start: | 18 February 1979 |
Term End: | 12 February 1982 |
Predecessor: | Abu Sayeed |
Successor: | Monzur Kader |
Constituency: | Pabna-8 (now Pabna-1) |
President: | Ziaur Rahman Abdus Sattar |
Primeminister: | Mashiur Rahman Shah Azizur Rahman |
Office1: | Member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly |
Term Start1: | March 1954 |
Term End1: | 1958 |
Predecessor1: | A. M. A. Hamid |
Primeminister1: | Mohammad Ali Bogra |
Birth Place: | Bera, Pabna District |
Party: | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Relatives: | Mirza Abdul Halim (brother) Mirza Abdul Jalil (brother) Manzur Quader (nephew) |
Mirza Abdul Awal (Bengali: মীর্জা আব্দুল আউয়াল) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Pabna-8.
Abdul Awal was born into a Bengali Muslim family of Mirzas in the village of Jainagar in Bera, Pabna District. His brother, Mirza Abdul Halim, was a former parliamentarian who served as the Opposition Minister of State for Shipping. His other brother, Mirza Abdul Jalil, was a former president of the Bangladesh Krishak League. The retired army major Manzur Quader is his nephew.[1]
Abdul Awal competed in the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election and successfully won a seat at the East Bengal Legislative Assembly. He was involved in the Bengali language movement and six point movement during the Pakistan period. Following the independence of Bangladesh, he was elected to the 2nd Jatiya Sangsad from Pabna-8 (Bera-Santhia; now Pabna-1) as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate following the 1979 Bangladeshi general election.[2] [3] Abdul Awal contested for Pabna-1 at the 1991 Bangladeshi general election, losing to Motiur Rahman Nizami.[4]