Syed Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari Explained

Syed Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari
Native Name:সৈয়দ নজিবুল বশর মাইজভাণ্ডারী
Native Name Lang:bn
Constituency Mp:Chittagong-2
Parliament:Bangladesh
Term Start:5 January 2014
Term End:6 January 2024
Predecessor:Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury
Successor:Khadizatul Anwar
Constituency Mp1:Chittagong-4
Term Start1:1991
Term End1:1996
Predecessor1:Mazharul Haq Shah Chowdhury
Successor1:Rafiqul Anwar
Office2:Chairman of Bangladesh Tarikat Federation
Term Start2:2005
Birth Date:1959 12, df=yes
Birth Place:Chittagong, East Pakistan
Nationality:Bangladeshi
Party:Bangladesh Tarikat Federation
Otherparty:Awami League (until 1996)
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (1996–2005)
Residence:Chittagong

Syed Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari (Bengali: সৈয়দ নজিবুল বশর মাইজভাণ্ডারী) is the chairman of Bangladesh Tarikat Federation and former Member of Parliament of the Chittagong-2 constituency.[1]

Early life

Maizbhandari was born on 2 December 1959, to a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds belonging to the Maizbhandaria tariqah in Chittagong District, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). He completed his education up until he gained his Higher Secondary School Certificate.[2]

Career

During the 1991 Bangladeshi general elections, Maizbhandari successfully won a seat in the Chittagong-4 constituency as an Awami League candidate. However, he later became affiliated with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He represented them as a candidate for the same constituency in the 2001 Bangladeshi general election, but did not win a seat.

He left the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 2005 because the party had formed an alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami, which Maizbhandari accuses of supporting terrorists who attack dargahs (Sufi shrines); Maizbhandari is the president of the Bangladesh Dargah Mazar Federation, an association of shrines.[3] In the same year, he founded the Bangladesh Tarikat Federation political party which had experienced its first elections in 2008 with 45 candidates but no seats won in parliament.

On 5 January 2014, Maizbhandari won a seat in the Chittagong-2 representing his party and managed to keep this seat again in the 2018 Bangladeshi general election.[4] He is the Chairman of Bangladesh Tarikat Federation, ailed of the Awami League.[5]

Notes and References

  1. News: Tarikat Federation for army deployment in nat'l polls . 9 January 2019 . UNB . en.
  2. Web site: Syed Nazibul Bashar Maizvandary - সৈয়দ নজিবুল বশর মাইজভান্ডারী... . Amarmp . 9 January 2019 . en.
  3. Book: Riaz . Ali . Ali Riaz . 2008 . Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh: A Complex Web . Routledge . 30 . 978-0-415-45172-7 . 9 January 2019.
  4. Web site: Syed Nazibul Bashar Maizvandary - সৈয়দ নজিবুল বশর মাইজভান্ডারী History . Amarmp . 9 January 2019 . en.
  5. News: Khaleda won't be released before JS polls: Tarikat Federation chief . 9 January 2019 . The Daily Star . 28 April 2018 . en.