Muhammed Sohul Hussain is a former

Election Commissioner of Bangladesh Election Commissioners of Bangladesh ( bn, বাংলাদেশের নির্বাচন কমিশনার), publicly referred to as EC, are members of Bangladesh Election Commission, who are bestowed upon the responsibility to arran ...

during the

2006–2008 Bangladeshi political crisis The 2006–2008 Bangladeshi political crisis began as a caretaker government (CTG) assumed power at the end of October 2006 following the end of term of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party administration. BNP government increased the age of chief ...

. In 2022, he was part of the search committee created to appoint new election commissioners.

Career

Hussain was the Secretary at the Ministry of Law. Hussain was appointed the Election Commissioner on 5 February 2007. The entire commission had resigned before his appointment. M Sakhawat Hossain was appoint his fellow commissioner and

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was appointed the chief commission. In July 2007, he announced that the commission will not meet political parties due to the ban on indoor political activities by the caretaker government. In October 2010, Justices A. H. M. Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Sheikh Md. Zakir Hossain of the

High Court Division The High Court Division, Supreme Court of Bangladesh ( bn, হাইকোর্ট ডিভিশন) popularly known as the 'High Court' is one of the two divisions of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, the other division being the Appellate D ...

found Hussain had him guilty on contempt of court charges for declaring the parliamentary seat of

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vacant. The court exonerated him because Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir asked the court that Hussain not be punished due to his age. Hussain served as the election commissioner till 5 February 2012. In 2022, Hussain was appointed a member of the Search Committee, 2022 to find the new election commissioners. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party rejected the committee as being partisian.

References

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