Staff Correspondent:
Awami League's Presidium Member
and Former Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya
Bir Bikram collected the nomination papers of Awami League from Chandpur-2
(Matlab North-Matlab South) constituency. He collected the nomination papers on
the second day of selling nomination forms of Awami League in view of the 12th
National Assembly elections on Sunday.
On this day, her eldest son
Sajedul Hossain Chowdhury Dipu, a member of the executive committee of the
Dhaka Metropolitan South Awami League, collected the nomination papers on
behalf of Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya at the Awami League office at
Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital. He was accompanied by Mofazzal Hossain
Chowdhury Mayer grandson and Sajedul Hossain Chowdhury Dipur's eldest son,
Ashfaq Chowdhury Mahi, former vice president of Bangladesh Chhatra League
Central Committee, Matlab Uttar Upazila Awami League Organizing Secretary
Jahangir Alam Howladar, Joint Secretary Ayub Ali Gazi, Chengarchar Municipality's
former mayor Rafiqul Islam, Jubo League leader Kamrul Hasan Mamun and others.
Leaders and activists of Matlab Upazila Awami League and its affiliated
organizations were present at the time.
Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya started his political career in 1965 through student politics. He was elected as Member of Parliament from Chandpur-2 Constituency in 1996 and 2014. He was appointed as the Minister of State for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives in 1997, and later served as the Minister of State for Shipping from 1998-2001. And from 2014-2019, he served as Minister in the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief. Currently he is a presidium member of Bangladesh Awami League. Before that he was the general secretary of undivided Dhaka Metropolitan Awami League and central executive member of Bangladesh Awami League.
