Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former State Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism.

Career

Nasiruddin served as the State Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism in the

Second Khaleda Cabinet The second Khaleda cabinet was the Government of Bangladesh during the 8th legislative session of the Jatiya Sangsad following the 2001 general election. The cabinet took office on 10 October 2001 and left office on 29 October 2006. The Prime M ...

. He was the Four-party Alliance candidate in the 2005

Chittagong Chittagong ( /ˈtʃɪt əˌɡɒŋ/ ''chit-uh-gong''; ctg, চিটাং; bn, চিটাগং), officially Chattogram ( bn, চট্টগ্রাম), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh after Dhaka and third largest city in B ...

Mayoral election. He was defeated by the incumbent Mayor

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of the

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. He is an adviser of Bangladesh Nationalist Party Chairperson and former Prime Minister of Bangladesh,

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. On 5 May 2017, he met the chief Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh,

Shah Ahmad Shafi Shah Ahmad Shafi ( bn, শাহ আহমদ শফী) (1916 – 18 September 2020) was a Bangladeshi Sunni Islamic scholar, the chief of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Rector of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Hathazari and also the c ...

, at Hathazari Madrasa, Chittagong.

Corruption

On 12 July 2007, Nasiruddin was jailed by a special Anti-Corruption court for corruption along with his son Mir Mohammed Helal Uddin for 13 years.

Bangladesh High Court 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 ...

nullified the sentences in August 2010. On 3 July 2014, Bangladesh Supreme Court scrapped the High Court order that acquitted him of all charges.

References

Living people Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians State Ministers of Tourism and Civil Aviation (Bangladesh) Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub