Anisul Huq (politician)

Anisul Huq was enrolled as a lawyer in the Dhaka District Bar in November 1985 and in the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in November 1987. In 2001 he was enrolled in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh as a lawyer and became a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in 2010.

On his father’s death, Anisul Huq became the Chief Special Prosecutor for both the Bangabandhu Murder Case and the Jail Killing case. It was under his counsel that Bangabandhu Murder case was finally completed and a judgment was delivered by the apex court of this country. Anisul Huq was also the Chief Counsel and Special Prosecutor for the Anti-Corruption Commission, Bangladesh. Anisul Huq was also the Chief Prosecutor for the Peelkhana Carnage Case which relates to the mutiny of the Bangladesh Rifles in 2009. This case was also completed successfully under his leadership.

The late Advocate Serajul Huq and his son Anisul Huq both are Senior Advocates of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, acted as counsel for most of the important, leading and sensitive criminal cases of the country during the 1980-2014 period.[1]

In the general elections held on 5 January 2014, Anisul Huq was elected as a Member of Parliament from Brahmanbaria-4 (Kasba-Akhaura) Constituency as a candidate of Bangladesh Awami League. which also houses the ancestral home of Anisul Huq. He took oath as a Member of Parliament on 9 January 2014. Thereafter he was inducted in the cabinet as a Minister on 12 January 2014 and was allocated the portfolio of Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.

In the 11th National Parliamentary Election held on 30 December 2018, Anisul Huq has once again been elected as Member of Parliament from the same Constituency as a candidate of Bangladesh Awami League. He has taken oath as a Member of Parliament on 3 January 2019. He has further been appointed as the Minister for the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs and taken oath on 7 January 2019 as Minister. He is the first person to be the Minister of the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs for consecutively two terms in the history of Bangladesh.[1]