Tariqul Islam
{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician (1946–2018)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Tariqul Islam
| native_name = তরিকুল ইসলাম
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Tariqul Islam.jpg
| office = Minister of Food
| term_start = 10 October 2001
| term_end = 11 March 2002
| predecessor = Amir Hossain Amu
| successor = Abdullah Al Noman
| office1 = Minister of Information
| term_start1 = 11 March 2002
| term_end1 = 6 May 2004
| predecessor1 = Abdul Moyeen Khan
| successor1 = Shamsul Islam
| office2 = Minister of Environment and Forest
| term_start2 = 6 May 2004
| term_end2 = 29 October 2006
| predecessor2 = Shajahan Siraj
| successor2 = Mostafizur Rahman Fizar
| constituency_MP3 = Jessore-3
| term_start3 = 28 October 2001
| term_end3 = 27 October 2006
| successor3 = Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito
| term_start4 = 19 March 1996
| term_end4 = 30 March 1996
| predecessor4 = Raushan Ali
| successor4 = Ali Reza Raju
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1946|11|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = Jessore, Bengal Presidency, British India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|11|04|1946|11|16|df=y}}
| death_place = Dhaka, Bangladesh
| party = Bangladesh Nationalist Party
| nationality = Bangladeshi
}}
Tariqul Islam (16 November 1946 – 4 November 2018) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He served as the cabinet minister of Ministry of Food, Ministry of Information and Ministry of Environment and Forest in the second Khaleda Zia cabinet.{{Cite news |title=Khaleda reshuffles cabinet |url=https://gulfnews.com/uae/khaleda-reshuffles-cabinet-1.380812 |work=Gulf News |language=en |access-date=2020-05-25 |date=2002-03-13}}{{Cite news |title=Portfolios of eight ministers changed |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2004/05/07/d4050701022.htm |access-date=2020-09-09 |work=The Daily Star |date=2004-05-07}} He represented the Jessore-3 constituency in the 6th and 8th Jatiya Sangsad.{{Cite web |title=List of 8th Parliament Members |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp-bangla/8th%20Parliament%20.pdf |access-date=2020-10-03 |website=Bangladesh Parliament |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918161135/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp-bangla/8th%20Parliament%20.pdf |archive-date=18 September 2018}}
Political life
Tariqul got the dilapidated Shaheed Minar of Michael Madhusudan College repaired in Jessore in 1962 and was arrested by the then military government. He served as the general secretary of the Satra Union of Michael Madhusudan College as a candidate of the students' union in the academic year 1963–1964.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}
He was imprisoned in Rajshahi and Jessore for nine months in 1968 for his anti-Ayub movement. While at Rajshahi University, he was again imprisoned for leading the mass uprising of 1968.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}
He joined the National Awami Party led by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani in 1970. He actively participated in the liberation war. From the National Awami Party, he first joined the Nationalist Democratic Party and then Ziaur Rahman's Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was one of the seventy six members of the first convening committee of the BNP. He was the founding convener of Jessore District Bangladesh Nationalist Party.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}
In 1980, he served as chairman of the Nationalist Party. He was also elected joint secretary general, acting secretary general, vice chairman of the BNP and a member of the standing committee of the fifth council of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 2009.{{citation needed|date= October 2022}}
Career
Islam was a standing committee member of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).{{cite news |title=BNP leader Tariqul taken to Singapore for treatment |url=http://www.theindependentbd.com/post/120406 |access-date=19 February 2018 |work=The Independent |location=Dhaka}} He served as the minister of information in the second Khaleda Zia cabinet.{{cite news |title=BNP leader Tariqul Islam hospitalised |url=http://en.ntvbd.com/bangladesh/18718/BNP-leader-Tariqul-Islam-hospitalised |access-date=19 February 2018 |work=NTV Online}}{{cite news |title=Bangladesh affected by maliciouspropaganda: Tariqul |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh-affected-by-maliciouspropaganda-tariqul |access-date=19 February 2018 |work=The Daily Star |date=20 January 2003 |language=en}}
Personal life
Islam had two sons, Shantonu Islam Sumit and Aninda Islam Amit.{{cite news |title=Tariqul taken to Singapore for treatment |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/politics/bnp-leader-tariqul-islam-taken-singapore-treatment-1481071 |access-date=19 February 2018 |work=The Daily Star |date=24 October 2017 |language=en}} Amit is an assistant organising secretary of the BNP.{{cite news |title=BNP leader Gayeshwar sent to jail, Tariqul's son remanded over attack on police |url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/bnp-leader-gayeshwar-sent-to-jail-tariquls-son-remanded-over-attack-on-police |access-date=19 February 2018 |work=bdnews24.com |date=31 January 2018}}
Islam died at Apollo Hospital in Dhaka on 4 November 2018. He had been suffering from kidney related complications and diabetes.{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/bnp-leader-tariqul-islam-passes-away-1656055 |title=BNP leader Tariqul passes away |date=2018-11-04 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=2018-11-04 |language=en}}
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Category:People from Jessore District
Category:Politicians from Khulna Division
Category:Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians
Category:6th Jatiya Sangsad members
Category:8th Jatiya Sangsad members
Category:Ministers of food of Bangladesh
Category:Ministers of information of Bangladesh
Category:Ministers of environment, forest and climate change of Bangladesh