Zahangir Alam (born May 7, 1979) is a former mayor of
Gazipur City Corporation
Gazipur City Corporation ( bn, গাজীপুর সিটি কর্পোরেশন - in short: GCC) established in 2013, is one of the city corporations of Bangladesh. Gazipur City Corporation's total area is 329.23 square kilometers w ...
, an Awami Politician and businessman. Aligned with the
Bangladesh Awami League
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, he was elected as second mayor of the
Gazipur City Corporation
Gazipur City Corporation ( bn, গাজীপুর সিটি কর্পোরেশন - in short: GCC) established in 2013, is one of the city corporations of Bangladesh. Gazipur City Corporation's total area is 329.23 square kilometers w ...
in July 2018. He is the managing director of Honourable Textile Composite Ltd and Z Alam Apparels. He was the general secretary of Gazipur metropolitan Awami League until he was expelled by Awami League central working committee on 19 November 2021. The LGRD Ministry suspended Jahangir Alam on 25 November 2021 from mayor post of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) on suspections of land grabbing.
Early life and education
Zahangir Alam was born in
Gazipur District
Gazipur ( bn, গাজীপুর) is a district in central Bangladesh, part of the Dhaka Division. It has an area of 1741.53 km2. It is the home district of Tajuddin Ahmad, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh and has been a prominent c ...
. He passed his
SSC and
HSC exams from Bhawal Badre Alam Govt. College. He completed graduation and post graduation from the same college. After that, he graduated with an
LLB
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degree from
the National University in
Bangladesh
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.
Political career
In July 2018 Alam was elected as Mayor of Gazipur City Corporation as the
Bangladesh Awami League
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candidate. In the election he earned 400,010 votes while
Hasan Uddin Sarkar, managed to secure 197,611 votes. He was the former vice-president of
the Bangladesh Chhatra League and vice-chairman of
Gazipur Sadar Upazila
Gazipur Sadar ( bn, গাজীপুর সদর) is an upazila (sub-district) of the Gazipur District in central Bangladesh, part of the Dhaka Division.
Gazipur Sadar is one of the five upazilas in the Gazipur district. It is bordered by the u ...
. On 19 November 2021, the Awami League Central Working Committee expelled Zahangir Alam for life over allegations of derogatory comments about Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and martyred freedom fighters.
Mayor of Gazipur City Corporation
During the 2019-20 session, Zahangir Alam announced a budget of approximately US$700 million income and US$550 million expense for Gazipur City Corporation.
While working as a mayor of Gazipur City Corporation, mayor Zahangir Alam disclosed about corruption and irregularities in the City Corporation. In May 2019 at a press briefing, he revealed that 14 employees of
Gazipur City Corporation
Gazipur City Corporation ( bn, গাজীপুর সিটি কর্পোরেশন - in short: GCC) established in 2013, is one of the city corporations of Bangladesh. Gazipur City Corporation's total area is 329.23 square kilometers w ...
got show cause notice over corruption and irregularity charges. In July same year in another press briefing, he informed the journalists that among the 14 accused employees, 6 had been suspended, 3 had been temporarily suspended and the remaining 5 had been served show-cause notices for alleged corruption.
On 11 May 2020, Delwoar Hossain, the executive engineer of Gazipur City Corporation was murdered allegedly by his colleague. The investigation agency and Delwoar's family suspects that the motive behind Delwoar's murder was corruption of the City Corporation projects.
Police arrested Anisur Rahman Selim, an assistant engineer of Gazipur City Corporation as a suspect of the murder case. Mayor Jahangir Alam told the ''
Prothom Alo
''The Daily Prothom Alo'' ( bn, প্রথম আলো) is a daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Dhaka in the Bengali language. It is the largest circulated newspaper in Bangladesh. According to National Media Survey 2018, conducte ...
'' that he knew about the corruption of Selim but never took any measures against him. Jahangir told another news channel,
Channel i
Channel i ( bn, চ্যানেল আই) is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable television channel owned by Impress Group. It was launched on 1 October 1999, as Bangladesh's first digital television channel. It is one of the ...
that he suspected the murder could be caused because of bribe money from contractors.
References
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Living people
People from Gazipur District
Bangladeshi businesspeople
Awami League politicians
1979 births