Abdullah Al Noman is no more

BNP Central Vice Chairman, former minister, and freedom fighter Abdullah Al Noman is no more. He passed away at a hospital in the capital at around 6 am today, Tuesday (Inna Lillahi wa Inna Ilaihi Rajiun).

Abdullah Al Noman was elected as the first MP from the Kotwali of Chittagong in 1991. After winning the 1991 election, he served as the Minister of Fisheries and Livestock and the Minister of Food after winning the 2001 election.

Noman joined the Chhatra Union in the early sixties to protest against the Hamidur Rahman Education Commission. He served as the General Secretary of the Chittagong Metropolitan City, the President of Greater Chittagong and the Central Organizing Secretary of the Menonist Chhatra Union.

After his student life, he joined labor politics with Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani. He was the Vice-President of the East Bengal Labor Federation. He also got involved in the politics of the Bhasaniist NAP. In 1970, he was made the central organizing secretary of NAP. He joined the Liberation War in 1971. After the war, he was again active in NAP politics. He joined the party in 1981 after Ziaur Rahman formed BNP. He has been elected as a member of parliament from the Raozan and Kotwali constituencies of Chittagong several times. He has served in the BNP government’s cabinet for several times in the ministries of food, fisheries and livestock, and youth and sports.

Do Follow: greenbanglaonline24