Mirza Abdul Halim

Mirza Abdul Halim
মীর্জা আব্দুল হালিম
Minister of State for Ports, Shipping and I.W.T.
In office
24 November 1979 – 24 November 1981[1]
PresidentZiaur Rahman
Abdus Sattar
Prime MinisterShah Azizur Rahman
Minister of State
In office
15 April 1979[2] – 24 April 1980[3]
PresidentZiaur Rahman
Prime MinisterShah Azizur Rahman
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament
for Pabna-12
In office
18 February 1979 – 12 February 1982
Preceded byAmjad Hossain
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born1927 or 1928
Died (aged 93)
PartyBangladesh Nationalist Party
RelativesMirza Abdul Awal (brother)
Mirza Abdul Jalil (brother)
Manzur Quader (nephew)

Mirza Abdul Halim (Bengali: মির্জা আব্দুল হালিম; 1927/8 – 9 July 2021) was a Bangladeshi footballer and politician. He was a Bangladesh National Party member of parliament from 1979 to 1982.

Early life and family

Mirza Abdul Halim was born into a Bengali Muslim family of Mirzas in the village of Joynagar in Kaitula, 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.[4]

Career

Abdul Halim was a footballer from Victoria SC. He contested the 1979 Bangladeshi general election as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate and was elected to parliament from the Pabna-12 constituency.[5] He was the state minister for shipping in the first cabinet of President Ziaur Rahman.[6]

Death

Abdul Halim died on 9 July 2021 at the age of 93.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Former state minister Mirza Halim dies". New Age. 9 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "New cabinet sworn in". Bangladesh. Vol. II, no. 20. 1 May 1979. p. 5.
  3. ↑ Zafarullah, Habib, ed. (1996). The Zia Episode in Bangladesh Politics. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers. p. 188. ISBN 978-81-7003-191-8.
  4. ↑ পাবনা-২ আসনে নৌকা চান মির্জা জলিল (in Bengali). NTV. 5 November 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  5. ↑ "List of 2nd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  6. ↑ ভাগ্যের শিকা এবারও ছিড়ল না বেড়াবাসীর. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). 6 January 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  7. ↑ "Former state minister Mirza Halim dies". New Age. 9 July 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  8. ↑ সাবেক প্রতিমন্ত্রী মির্জা হালিম মারা গেছেন. bdview24.com (in Bengali). 9 July 2021. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2021.