Rafiqul Islam Miah is a Bangladeshi barrister and politician. He served as the State Minister for Labour and Manpower and later as Minister of Housing and Public Works in the

first Khaleda Zia cabinet The first Khaleda cabinet was the Government of Bangladesh during the 5th legislative session of the Jatiya Sangsad following the 1991 Bangladeshi general election. The cabinet took office in 1991 and left office in January 1996. The Prime Minis ...

during 1991–1996. He also served as Minister of Education in the government formed after the

February 1996 Bangladeshi general election General elections were held in Bangladesh on 15 February 1996. They were boycotted by most opposition parties, and saw voter turnout drop to just 21%.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Vo ...

Career

In September 2007, Miah served as the lawyer of

Begum Khaleda Zia Khaleda Zia (; born Khaleda Khanam Putul in 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996, and again from June 2001 to October 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Ba ...

when she was arrested on charges of corruption and misuse of power. In 2008 Rafiqul represented the

Bihari community in Bangladesh Stranded Pakistanis in Bangladesh ( ur, , , bn, উদ্বাস্তু পাকিস্তানি, udbāstu pākistāni) are Urdu-speaking Muslim migrants with homelands in present-day Bihar (then part of British India) who settled ...

as they were granted citizenship status by

High Court of Bangladesh 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 ...

. He is currently a member of the National Standing Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

Conviction

In 2001, Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh sent Miah a notice to submit his wealth statement. Failure to comply with that notice, in January 2004, led a case filed against him. On 19 November 2018, he was sentenced to three years in prison and was arrested from his Eskaton home the same day . On 26 November, he secured a six-month bail from the High Court which also stayed the fines.

References

Living people Bangladeshi barristers Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Housing and Public Works ministers of Bangladesh Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub