Faridul Huda
Muhammad Faridul Huda | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Bangladesh Parliament for Comilla-2 | |
| In office 2 April 1979 – 24 March 1982 | |
| Preceded by | Taheruddin Thakur |
| Succeeded by | Abdur Rashid |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1929 or 1930[1] |
| Died | 14 January 1999 |
| Party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
| Other political affiliations | National Awami Party (Bhashani) |
| Alma mater | Dhaka Medical College |
| Profession | Physician |
Muhammad Faridul Huda (born 1929 or 1930; died 1999) was a Bangladeshi physician and politician. He was the member of parliament for Comilla-2 from 1979 to 1982. He was, for a time, the state minister for Health & Population Control in the Ziaur Rahman ministry.
Biography
Huda was born in 1929 or 1930.[1] He earned a degree at Dhaka Medical College.[2]
Career
Huda ran unsuccessfully for the Comilla-II seat in the 1965 East Pakistan Provincial Assembly election.[3]
Huda joined the National Awami Party (Bhashani) (NAP (B)). He stood for the National Assembly of Pakistan seat of Comilla-II in the 1970 Pakistani general election. He finished last, receiving 1,819 fewer votes than the fifth-place Convention Muslim League (Fazlul Quader) candidate, Azizur Rahman Mollah.[4]
Bangladesh won its independence from Pakistan in 1971. Huda contested again as a NAP (B) candidate in the 1973 Bangladeshi general election.[5]
In 1979, he was elected to parliament from Comilla-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) candidate.[1][6] He was appointed Minister of State for Health & Population Control by President Ziaur Rahman. On 5 April 1981, he resigned along with three others from the 46-member Council of Ministers.[7]
Death and legacy
Huda died on 14 January 1999. He is buried in Ashuganj, adjacent to the grounds of Kamaura Shaheed Smriti High School, which he founded.[8]
His son, Nazmul Huda Biplob, is also a physician. He sought the BNP nomination for Brahmanbaria-2 in the 2026 Bangladeshi general election.[9]
References
- ^ a b c "List of members of the Parliament of Bangladesh with their home district, party affiliations and other particulars". Statistical Pocket Book of Bangladesh 1979. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics: 25. 1979. OCLC 06508001.
244. Comilla II Dr. Md. Faridul Huda 49 B.N P.
- ^ পিতার মতোই হতে চান চিকিৎসক বিপ্লব [Doctor Biplob wants to be like his father]. Manab Zamin (in Bengali). 9 August 2025.
- ^ "P. A. Polls Candidates". The Pakistan Observer. 12 April 1965. p. 6.
- ^ "East Pakistan Results". The Pakistan Observer. 9 December 1970. p. 10.
- ^ Chakravarty, S. R. (1988). Bangladesh, the Nineteen Seventy-Nine Elections. New Delhi: South Asian Publishers. p. 127. ISBN 81-7003-088-9.
[Comilla-II] Dr. Md. Faridul Huda BNP Contested as NAP (B) candidate in 1973 election
- ^ "List of 2nd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ "4 Bangla Ministers dropped". Hindustan Times. Press Trust of India. 6 April 1981. p. 1.
- ^ সাবেক স্বাস্থ্য প্রতিমন্ত্রী ফরিদুল হুদার মৃত্যু বার্ষিকীতে আলোচনা সভা [Discussion meeting held on the death anniversary of former State Minister for Health, Faridul Huda]. Bangladesh Pratidin (in Bengali). 14 January 2020.
- ^ ব্রাহ্মণবাড়িয়ায়-২ আসনে বিএনপির মনোনয়ন প্রত্যাশী ডা. নাজমুল হুদার মতবিনিময় [Dr. Nazmul Huda, BNP's nomination candidate for Brahmanbaria-2 constituency, shares his views]. Alokito Bangladesh. 7 August 2025.