Mostafa Mohsin Montu | |
Office: | Secretary-General, Gano Forum |
Term Start: | 2009 |
Constituency Mp1: | Dhaka-3 |
Term Start1: | 7 May 1986 |
Term End1: | 3 March 1988 |
Predecessor1: | Nizam Uddin Khan |
Successor1: | Md. Saifur Rahman |
Birth Date: | 2 February 1945 |
Birth Place: | Dhanmondi, Dhaka |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami LeagueGano Forum |
Occupation: | politician |
Native Name: | মোস্তফা মোহসীন মন্টু |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Mostafa Mohsin Montu (born 2 February 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician and former member of parliament. He is the incumbent secretary general of Gano Forum splinter fraction.
Montu was born on 2 February 1945 at Dhanmondi in Dhaka of the then British Raj to Mir Jahan and Rahela Khatun.[1]
Montu was involved in Bangladesh Awami League politics from his student life. Later, he was elected president of Jubo League, youth wing of the Awami League. He was the secretary of Awami League's Dhaka City branch. He was expelled from Awami League in 1992 and joined Kamal Hossain's Gano Forum.[2] In 2009, he was elected secretary general of Gano Forum.[3]
Montu was elected a member of parliament from the Dhaka-3 constituency as an Awami League candidate during the third parliamentary election in 1986.[4] In the fifth parliamentary elections in 1991, he contested again from Dhaka-3 under Awami League banner but he was defeated by the BNP's Amanullah Aman.[5]