Salahuddin Ahmed (Cox's Bazar politician)
Salahuddin Ahmed | |
|---|---|
সালাহউদ্দিন আহমেদ | |
Ahmed in 2025 | |
| Minister of State for Communications | |
| In office 10 October 2001 – 29 October 2006 | |
| Prime Minister | Khaleda Zia |
| Preceded by | AKM Amanul Islam Chowdhury |
| Succeeded by | Sultana Kamal |
| Member of Parliament | |
| In office 14 July 1996 – 29 October 2006 | |
| Preceded by | Enamul Haq Manju |
| Succeeded by | Hasina Ahmed |
| Constituency | Cox's Bazar-1 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 June 1962 |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
| Spouse | Hasina Ahmed |
| Children | 4 |
| Occupation | Politician |
Salahuddin Ahmed (born 30 June 1962)[1] is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician who served as the state minister of communication and a member of parliament from the Cox's Bazar-1 constituency during 1996–2006.[2] He was the spokesperson of the party. In 2015, he allegedly enforced disappeared in Dhaka and reappeared two months later in Shillong, India, under Indian police custody.[3] In 2018, he was acquitted by the Indian court.[4] Later on 28 February 2023, he was also acquitted by the appellate court.[5]
Career
Ahmed served as the assistant private secretary to the then prime minister, Khaleda Zia, when the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) came to power in 1991. He was later appointed as the State Minister for Communications during 2001–2006 in the third Khaleda cabinet.
Ahmed also served as the joint general secretary of the BNP. In January 2015, he was appointed as the party's spokesperson by Khaleda Zia, following the arrest of the previous spokesperson, Rizvi Ahmed.
Imprisonment
In March 2015, Ahmed disappeared in Uttara, Dhaka. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party claimed he had been arrested by law enforcement agencies in Bangladesh and, according to a witness, by the Rapid Action Battalion. He reappeared two months later in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. He was arrested by the Indian police and charged under the Foreigners Act for entering India illegally.[6][7] On 3 June 2015, he was charged by Shillong Police and was interned in the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, where he was receiving treatment.[8] More than 3 years later, in October 2018, the East Khashi Hill District and Sessions Judge's Court in Meghalaya, India, acquitted him over the trespassing case.[1][4][9] While in the Indian jail, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party appointed him as a member of its standing committee.[1] Salahuddin Ahmed was acquitted and granted permission to return home by the appellate court in Shillong on 28 February 2023.[5]
Personal life
Ahmed is married to Hasina Ahmed,[10] with two sons and two daughters.
References
- ^ a b c "Trespassing Charges: Salahuddin cleared". The Daily Star. 27 October 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
- ^ "Missing Bangladesh opposition spokesman surfaces in India". The Guardian. Agence France-Presse. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "Bangladesh Is Vanishing The Opposition". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ a b "Shillong court acquits BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed of trespass charges". bdnews24.com. 26 October 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ a b "BNP leader Salahuddin acquitted, gets permission to return home". Star Digital Report. 1 March 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ Rashid, Muktadir; Bergman, David. "Anatomy of a Disappearance, and a Reappearance". The Wire. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "BNP leader Salahuddin says he was kidnapped from Uttara". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "Charge framed against Salahuddin". The Daily Star. 22 July 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ "I am eager to go back to Bangladesh, says BNP leader Salahuddin". 29 September 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
- ^ "PM lobbied over Dhaka disappearance". BBC News. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
External links
- Media related to Salahuddin Ahmed (Cox's Bazar politician) at Wikimedia Commons