Mirza Abdul Halim | |
Native Name: | মীর্জা আব্দুল হালিম |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | Member of the 2nd Jatiya Sangsad Minister of Shipping |
Term Start: | 18 February 1979 |
Term End: | 12 February 1982 |
Predecessor: | Amjad Hossain |
Successor: | Constituency abolished |
Constituency: | Pabna-12 |
President: | Ziaur Rahman Abdus Sattar |
Primeminister: | Mashiur Rahman Shah Azizur Rahman |
Birth Place: | Bera, Pabna District, Bengal Presidency |
Death Place: | Bangladesh |
Party: | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Relatives: | Mirza Abdul Awal (brother) Mirza Abdul Jalil (brother) Manzur Quader (nephew) |
Mirza Abdul Halim (; 1927/8 – 9 July 2021) was a Bangladeshi politician and former footballer. He served as a Member of Parliament for the Bangladesh National Party from 1979 to 1982.
Mirza Abdul Halim was born into a Bengali Muslim family of Mirzas in the village of Kaitula in Joynagar, Bera, Pabna District, then part of the Bengal Presidency. He had two sons and one daughter. His brother, Mirza Abdul Awal, was a former parliamentarian. 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 Halim was a footballer from Victoria SC. He contested at the 1979 Bangladeshi general election as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate and was successfully elected to parliament from the Pabna-12 constituency.[2] He was the state minister for shipping in the first cabinet of President Ziaur Rahman.[3]
Halim died on 9 July 2021 at the age of 93.[4] [5]