Bachhu Mollah Explained

Bachhu Mollah
Native Name:বাচ্চু মোল্লা
Native Name Lang:bn
Constituency Mp:Kushtia-1
Term Start:1 March 2004
Term End:27 October 2006
Predecessor:Ahsanul Haq Mollah
Successor:Afaz Uddin Ahmed
Party:Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Father:Ahsanul Haq Mollah

Bachhu Mollah is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Kushtia-1 constituency.

Career

Mollah was elected to parliament from Kushtia-1 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in March 2004 in a by-election, following the death of the incumbent, Ahsanul Haq Mollah, who was also his father.[1]

Mollah protected smugglers in Kushtia District. He laid seize to a unit of Bangladesh Rifles to force them to release a drug smuggler they had caught.[2] He was sued in 2007 for attacking and looting houses after Bangladesh Nationalist Party came to power in 2001.[3]

Notes and References

  1. News: Kushtia-1 By-Polls . 17 October 2019 . The Daily Star . UNB . 19 May 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180519033037/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/03/01/d40301011818.htm . dead .
  2. Book: Schendel . Willem van . The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia . 2005 . Anthem Press . 9781843311454 . 17 October 2019 . en.
  3. News: Another case against former Kushtia BNP MP . 17 October 2019 . The Daily Star . 15 August 2007 . en.