Kazi Abdul Kader

Kazi Abdul Kader
কাজী আব্দুল কাদের
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament
for Rangpur-3
In office
1979–1982
LeaderShah Azizur Rahman
Preceded byJonab Ali Ukil
Succeeded byShafiqul Ghani Swapan
Provincial Minister for Food, Agriculture and Cooperatives of East Pakistan
In office
1962–1965
GovernorAbdul Monem Khan
Preceded byMuhammad Abdul Khaleque
Succeeded byFazlul Bari
Member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly
for PE-9 Rangpur-IX
In office
1962
LeaderA. T. M. Mustafa
Preceded byconstituency created
Succeeded byRustom Ali Mia
Personal details
Born1916
Shaulmari, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died2 October 2002(2002-10-02) (aged 85–86)
Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Resting placeMartyred Intellectuals graveyard, Mirpur, Dhaka
PartyBML(K)
Other political
affiliations
ChildrenFaruque and 8 others
EducationCarmichael College
Occupationpolitician

Kazi Abdul Kader (1916–2002) was a Bangladeshi politician. In addition to serving as a member of the Jatiya Sangsad, he served as a minister of East Pakistan and a member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly during the Pakistan period.

Early life

Kader was born in 1916 in Shaulmari, Rangpur District, Bengal Presidency, British India (in the present-day Jaldhaka Upazila, Nilphamari District, Bangladesh). He received his education at Rangpur's Carmichael College. Alongside serving as an adviser to the Jute Committee of the Bengal Government, he also served as a director of the Provincial Cooperative Bank. He founded a school in Kaimari. He joined the Pakistan Movement in support of the demand for Pakistan. After the partition of India in 1947, he became a director of the East Pakistan Cooperative Jute Mills.[1] He also served as vice-chairman of the Central Jute Committee and chairman of the East Pakistan Fisheries Development Corporation.[2]

Political career

Kader contested the 1962 provincial election and was elected as a member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly.[3] In the same year, he was appointed Provincial Minister of Agriculture, Food and Cooperatives of East Pakistan.[1] As under the law at the time, a minister could not simultaneously be a member of the legislature, he resigned from his membership of the Provincial Assembly, and Rustom Ali Mia was elected as the new member for his constituency through a by-election in 1963. Mosharraf Husain, the defeated candidate in the by-election, filed a petition with the Election Tribunal, alleging that Kader had used government facilities to campaign in favor of the winning candidate. When the Tribunal sought an explanation from him in 1964, Kader stated that he was innocent because the law under which he had been charged had been annulled before the by-election. However, the Tribunal found him guilty, following which he filed a writ petition in the Dhaka High Court, challenging the Tribunal's verdict. Consequently, a special bench of the High Court ruled in his favor.[3]

In the new cabinet formed in 1965, he was appointed to the same position.[2] His portfolio was later handed over to Fazlul Bari. Kader was a member of the ad hoc committee of the East Pakistan branch of the Convention Muslim League (PMLC).[4] In 1966, a case was filed against him on charges of corruption during his tenure as a minister.[5] He later joined the Qayyum Muslim League (PMLQ) and served as the chief organiser of its East Pakistan branch.[6] During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, he helped organize the anti-Bangladesh Razakar forces in Jaldhaka.[7] He openly supported and assisted the Pakistan Army during the war.[8] He was alleged to have been involved in the Kaliganj massacre, which took place in 17 April and in which approximately 300 people were killed.[9] Following the independence of Bangladesh, the government of Bangladesh revoked his citizenship.[8] He later joined the Bangladesh Muslim League (BML), founded in 1976, and was elected its president.[10] He contested the 1979 general election from the Rangpur-3 constituency and won.[11] Later, a faction under his leadership split from the BML and formed a separate political party.[8]

Personal life and death

Kazi Abdul Latif was Kader's brother, who joined the anti-Bangladesh Peace Committee during the war. Like his brother, Latif was also involved in the formation of the Razakar forces in Jaldhaka.[7] Kader had seven sons and one daughter.[10] One of his children, Kazi Faruque Kader, is a politician of the Jatiya Party (JP).[9]

Kader died on 2 October 2002 at his residence in Gulshan, Dhaka, Bangladesh. After his death, he was buried at the Martyred Intellectuals graveyard in Mirpur, Dhaka.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "KAZI ABDUL KADER". The Morning News. 28 June 1962. p. 3.
  2. 1 2 "LIFE SKETCHES". The Eastern Examiner. 30 March 1965.
  3. 1 2 "Kazi Kader's Trial Void". The Pakistan Observer. 27 November 1965. p. 8.
  4. ↑ "Fazlul Bari isn't there". The Pakistan Observer. 22 December 1965. p. 1.
  5. ↑ "CORRUPTION CHARGE AGAINST KAZI KADER". The Pakistan Observer. 22 July 1966. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "Plea to take action against Kazi Kader". The Pakistan Observer. 2 October 1971. p. 3.
  7. 1 2 Lubna, Nahida Alam (2020). "মুক্তিযুদ্ধে জলঢাকা উপজেলা (নীলফামারী)". In Harun-or-Rashid (ed.). বাংলাদেশ মুক্তিযুদ্ধ জ্ঞানকোষ (in Bengali). Vol. 4th. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 9789843492630.
  8. 1 2 3 Arefin, A. S. M. Shamsul (2012). মুক্তিযুদ্ধের প্রেক্ষাপটে ব্যক্তির অবস্থান (in Bengali). Somoy Prokashon. p. 415. ISBN 9789848942444.
  9. 1 2 "'No vote' campaign against anti-liberation elements". The Daily Star. 8 December 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  10. 1 2 3 "কাজী কাদেরের". The Daily Ittefaq (in Bengali). 3 October 2002. p. 2.
  11. ↑ "বেসরকারী ফলাফল". The Daily Ittefaq (in Bengali). 19 February 1979. p. 8.
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