Abdul Matin Khasru

Abdul Matin Khasru (Bengali: আবদুল মতিন খসরু; born 12 February 1950) is a lawyer and Bangladesh Awami League politician. He is the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Comilla-5, having first held the seat between 1991 and 2001.[3][4] Although he lost the seat to Md. Yunus in the 2001 general election, he regained it in the December 2008 general election.[5][6] He served in the first Hasina cabinet as Minister of Law and Justice from 1997 to 2001.[1]

Abdul Matin Khasru
আবদুল মতিন খসরু
Minister of Law and Justice
In office
14 January 1997[1] – 15 July 2001[1]
Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina
Preceded bySyed Istiaq Ahmed[1]
Succeeded bySyed Istiaq Ahmed[1]
Member of Parliament
Assumed office
January 2009
Preceded byMd. Yunus
In office
February 1991 – October 2001
Preceded byMd. Yunus[2]
Succeeded byMd. Yunus
ConstituencyComilla-5
Personal details
Born (1950-12-02) 2 December 1950
Comilla District, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyBangladesh Awami League

Khasru was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Bangladesh Bar Council in 2015.[7] The following year he was made the law secretary of Bangladesh Awami League.[8] He became a member of the party's Presidium in 2017.[9]

References
  1. "Honorable Minister". Law and Justice Division. Archived from the original on 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
  2. "List of 4th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament.
  3. "Constituency 253". Bangladesh Parliament. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  4. "List of 5th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament.
  5. "Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 2008-12-29. Retrieved 2018-09-30.
  6. "List of 9th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament.
  7. "Abdul Matin Khasru made bar council chairman". Dhaka Tribune. 18 October 2015. Archived from the original on 5 September 2017. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  8. Siddique, Mohammad Abu Bakar (25 October 2016). "AL central working committee names declared". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  9. "Ex-law minister Khasru made AL Presidium Member, Rezaul Legal Affairs Secretary". bdnews24.com. 22 July 2017.

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