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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{infobox officeholder
| name = Mirza Abbas
| native_name = মির্জা আব্বাস
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Mirza Abbas.jpg
| office = [[Ministry of Housing and Public Works|Minister of Housing and Public Works]]
| president = [[A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury|Badruddoza Chowdhury]]<br/>[[Iajuddin Ahmed]]
| primeminister = [[Khaleda Zia]]
| successor= [[Dhiraj Kumar Nath]]
| term_start = 10 October 2001
| term_end = 29 October 2006
| office1 = [[Member of Parliament#Bangladesh|Member of Parliament]]
| constituency3 = [[Dhaka-6]]
| term_start3 = 20 March 1991
| term_end3 = 30 March 1996
| predecessor3 = Abdur Rahim<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-4th-parliament-members-bangla |title=List of 4th parliament members |website=Bangladesh Parliament}}</ref>
| successor3 = [[Saber Hossain Chowdhury]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/current-mp-s/list-of-7th-parliament-members-bangla# |title=List of 7th parliament members |website=Bangladesh Parliament}}</ref>
| constituency2 = [[Dhaka-6]]
| term_start2 = 1 October 2001
| term_end2 = 28 October 2006
| predecessor2 = [[Saber Hossain Chowdhury]]
| successor2 = [[Mizanur Rahman Khan Dipu|Mizanur Rahman Khan]]
| office4 = [[Dhaka City Corporation|Mayor of Dhaka]]
| president4 =
| primeminister4 = [[Khaleda Zia]]
| term_start4 = 1991
| term_end4 = 1993
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|2|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kishoreganj]], [[East Bengal]], [[Dominion of Pakistan]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Dhaka]]
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| occupation = Politician
| spouse = Afroza Abbas<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/afroza-abbas-lead-bnps-women-front-1290553|title=Afroza Abbas to lead BNP's women front|date=2016-09-27|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-08-20|language=en}}</ref>
| party = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]
| successor1 =
| successor4 = [[Mohammad Hanif (mayor)|Mohammad Hanif]]
}}
'''Mirza Abbas Uddin Ahmed''', known as '''Mirza Abbas''', (born 7 February 1951) is a [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] politician and a member of the national standing committee of the party. He is now the newly appointed secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). He was the Mayor of [[Dhaka City Corporation]] from 1991 to 1993. He was the [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Dhaka-6]] from 2001 to 2006, and Minister of Housing and Public Works in [[Second Khaleda Cabinet|Khaleda's cabinet]].

==Early life and career==

Abbas was born on 7 February 1951 in [[Kishoreganj]], [[East Bengal]] to businessman Abdur Razzak and Kamla Khatun. He had his schooling in the local educational institutions in Kishoreganj. Later, he got admitted to the [[University of Dhaka]] in 1966 and earned his [[Bachelor of Commerce]] degree in 1972.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://123.49.39.5/asset2013/pdfs/2_4_1889_21158_5.pdf|title=Affidavit of Mirza Abbas|publisher=Election Commission|date=2008-09-08|accessdate=2015-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064711/http://123.49.39.5/asset2013/pdfs/2_4_1889_21158_5.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}</ref>

After obtaining his bachelor's, Abbas joined his family business, Mirza Enterprises.<ref name="DhakaBank">{{cite web|url=http://dhakabankltd.com/mr-mirza-abbas-uddin-ahmed/|title=Mr. Mirza Abbas Uddin Ahmed|publisher=Dhaka Bank Limited|date=2008-09-08|accessdate=2015-04-07}}</ref> He is the founder of [[Dhaka Bank Limited]]. He was officially introduced to the board of the bank as an alternate director in November 1995. He was appointed director of the bank on 29 March 2012.

==Political career==

Abbas is among those leaders who started their political career with the emergence of [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] and worked with President [[Ziaur Rahman]].

Abbas was appointed as the mayor of [[Dhaka City Corporation]] in 1991. He served at that position until December 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dncc.gov.bd/mayor-administrator/roll-of-honer.html|title=Moudud, Roll of Honor|publisher=Dhaka North City Corporation|date=2008-09-08|accessdate=2015-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403130517/http://www.dncc.gov.bd/mayor-administrator/roll-of-honer.html|archive-date=2015-04-03|url-status=dead}}</ref> Later, in the election of 2001, Mirza Abbas was elected as a member of parliament from capital [[Dhaka]]. He was appointed as the Minister of Housing and Public Works. Mirza Abbas, as a minister, time and again focused on the strict enforcement of Wetland Protection Act to ensure environmental balance and flooding. The Ministry of Housing and Public Works under his able leadership amended the Building Construction Rules that was finally enacted in December 2006.<ref name="DhakaBank" />

Under his auspices, the Ministry also formulated Private Housing Land Development Rules, a guideline to streamline real estate developers particularly involved in filling up thousands of acres of wetland and flood flow zones. In [[The 5th National Council of Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] of 2009, he was selected as a national standing committee member of the party for his contribution towards the party.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/city/bnp%E2%80%99s-mirza-abbas-joins-mayoral-race-74097|title=BNP's Mirza Abbas joins mayoral race|work=The Daily Star|date=2015-03-26|accessdate=2015-04-07}}</ref> He was later given the responsibility of the convener of party's Dhaka city unit in 2014. In 2015, he collected his nomination form to contest as a mayoral candidate from [[Dhaka South City Corporation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://en.prothom-alo.com/opinion/news/51837/The-people-are-suffocated|title=The people are suffocated: Mirza Abbas|work=Prothom Alo|date=2014-08-11|accessdate=2015-04-07}}</ref>

===Charges and convictions===
On 25 February 2007, Abbas was arrested when he went to submit his wealth statement to the [[Anti-Corruption Commission (Bangladesh)|Anti-Corruption Commission]] (ACC). He was among the first list of 50 graft suspects.<ref name="thedailystar.net">{{Cite web|date=2008-05-12|title=Mirza Abbas gets 8yrs for tax offences|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-36152|access-date=2020-09-15|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>

On 15 July 2007, ACC filed a case against Abbas, former BNP MP [[Ali Asgar Lobi]] and Mahfuzul Islam, a government official. The case accused them of illegally allotting an industrial plot in Tejgaon Industrial Area for Pacific Chemicals Ltd, a company owned by Lobi in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-30|title=Graft case: HC clears way for trial of Mirza Abbas|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/graft-case-hc-clears-way-trial-mirza-abbas-1201762|access-date=2020-09-15|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>

On 12 May 2008, Abbas was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment on charges of invading tax upon his income for during 1990–2007 and also, furnishing false information in the tax returns.<ref name="thedailystar.net"/>

On 6 March 2014, ACC filed a graft cast against Abbas over corruption in plot allocation among journalists when he was the housing and public works minister.<ref name=plot>{{Cite web|date=2016-04-04|title=BNP's Mirza Abbas freed on bail|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/bnps-mirza-abbas-freed-bail-1204000|access-date=2020-09-15|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-10-20|title=Graft: Mirza Abbas indicted, trial Jan 1|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/graft-mirza-abbas-indicted-trial-jan-1-1301554|access-date=2020-09-15|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref> After a Supreme Court ruling, he was released on bail from jail in April 2016.<ref name=plot/><ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-09|title=Mirza Abbas free to walk out of jail|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/mirza-abbas-free-walk-out-jail-788635|access-date=2020-09-15|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>

On 6 January 2016, after the surrender, Abbas was jailed in connection with two violence cases. The cases were filed in December 2014 and January 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-01-06|title=Abbas lands in jail after surrender|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/abbas-lands-jail-after-surrender-197785|access-date=2020-09-15|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Abbas is married to Afroza Abbas, the president of Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal, a wing of the BNP.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-01-23|title=Freeze Tk 21cr property of Afroza Abbas|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/news/freeze-tk-21cr-property-afroza-abbas-1691560|access-date=2020-09-15|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-09-03|title=Wife of Mirza Abbas jailed for 16yrs|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-2462|access-date=2020-09-15|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>

==Social service==
Abbas established the ''Mirza Abbas Mohila Degree College'' for the betterment of women education in his locality.<ref name="DhakaBank"/> He donated to SEID Trust, a school for autistic children.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://thedailynewnation.com/news/17596/mirza-abbas-uddin-ahmed-founder-and-director-of-dhaka-bank-limited-inaugurating-the-19th-anniversary-programme-of-the-bank-at-its-head-office-on-saturday-on-the-same-occasion-the-bank-donated-tk-12-lac-to-seid-trust-a-school-for-autistic-children.html|title=Mirza Abbas donates SEID|work=The New Nation|date=2014-07-06|accessdate=2015-04-07}}</ref>

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