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'''Abdul Matin Khasru''' (12 February 1950 – 14 April 2021)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Constituency 253_10th_En|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/parliamentary-business/242-mps-category/mps-of-10th-parliament/2144-constituency-253-10th-en|access-date=2021-04-14|website=www.parliament.gov.bd}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru dies of COVID|url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/2021/04/14/former-law-minister-abdul-matin-khasru-dies-of-covid|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-14|website=bdnews24.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-14|title=Supreme Court Bar president Abdul Matin Khasru dies of Covid-19|url=http://www.tbsnews.net/coronavirus-chronicle/covid-19-bangladesh/supreme-court-bar-president-abdul-matin-khasru-passes-away|access-date=2021-04-14|website=The Business Standard|language=en}}</ref> was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He was a [[Jatiya Sangsad]] member representing the [[Comilla-5]] constituency during 1991–1995, 1996–2001 and 2009–2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/current-mp-s/list-of-10th-parliament-members-english?layout=edit&id=2144 |title=Constituency 253 |website=Bangladesh Parliament |access-date=5 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-5th-parliament-members-bangla |title=List of 5th Parliament Members |website=Bangladesh Parliament}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://votemonitor.net:80/bangladesh/EADetails_1991_1996_2001.php?EA=252 |title=Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics |website=Vote Monitor Networks |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229001002/http://votemonitor.net/bangladesh/EADetails_1991_1996_2001.php?EA=252 |archive-date=2008-12-29 |access-date=2018-09-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-9th-parliament-members-bangla |title=List of 9th Parliament Members |website=Bangladesh Parliament}}</ref> He served in the [[First Hasina Cabinet|first Hasina cabinet]] as [[Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs|Minister of Law and Justice]] from 1997 until 2001.<ref name="lawjusticediv">{{cite web |url=http://www.lawjusticediv.gov.bd/static/minister_rt_live_bak_law.php |title=Honorable Minister |website=Law and Justice Division |access-date=2017-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122041816/http://www.lawjusticediv.gov.bd/static/minister_rt_live_bak_law.php |archive-date=2018-01-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
'''Abdul Matin Khasru''' (12 February 1950 – 14 April 2021)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Constituency 253_10th_En|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/parliamentary-business/242-mps-category/mps-of-10th-parliament/2144-constituency-253-10th-en|access-date=2021-04-14|website=www.parliament.gov.bd}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru dies of COVID|url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/2021/04/14/former-law-minister-abdul-matin-khasru-dies-of-covid|url-status=live|access-date=2021-04-14|website=bdnews24.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414115007/https://bdnews24.com/politics/2021/04/14/former-law-minister-abdul-matin-khasru-dies-of-covid |archive-date=2021-04-14 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-14|title=Supreme Court Bar president Abdul Matin Khasru dies of Covid-19|url=http://www.tbsnews.net/coronavirus-chronicle/covid-19-bangladesh/supreme-court-bar-president-abdul-matin-khasru-passes-away|access-date=2021-04-14|website=The Business Standard|language=en}}</ref> was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He was a [[Jatiya Sangsad]] member representing the [[Comilla-5]] constituency during 1991–1995, 1996–2001 and 2009–2021.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/current-mp-s/list-of-10th-parliament-members-english?layout=edit&id=2144 |title=Constituency 253 |website=Bangladesh Parliament |access-date=5 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-5th-parliament-members-bangla |title=List of 5th Parliament Members |website=Bangladesh Parliament}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://votemonitor.net:80/bangladesh/EADetails_1991_1996_2001.php?EA=252 |title=Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics |website=Vote Monitor Networks |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229001002/http://votemonitor.net/bangladesh/EADetails_1991_1996_2001.php?EA=252 |archive-date=2008-12-29 |access-date=2018-09-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-9th-parliament-members-bangla |title=List of 9th Parliament Members |website=Bangladesh Parliament}}</ref> He served in the [[First Hasina Cabinet|first Hasina cabinet]] as [[Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs|Minister of Law and Justice]] from 1997 until 2001.<ref name="lawjusticediv">{{cite web |url=http://www.lawjusticediv.gov.bd/static/minister_rt_live_bak_law.php |title=Honorable Minister |website=Law and Justice Division |access-date=2017-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122041816/http://www.lawjusticediv.gov.bd/static/minister_rt_live_bak_law.php |archive-date=2018-01-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
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Khasru started his legal practice at the District and Sessions Judges Court, [[Comilla]] in 1978.<ref name=":0" /> Later he started practicing in the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1982. He founded a law firm ''Abdul Matin Khasru & Associates'' in Dhaka.
Khasru started his legal practice at the District and Sessions Judges Court, [[Comilla]] in 1978.<ref name=":0" /> Later he started practicing in the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1982. He founded a law firm ''Abdul Matin Khasru & Associates'' in Dhaka.


Khasru was a senior advocate enrolled at the Bangladesh Bar Council. He was elected chairman of the executive committee of the [[Bangladesh Bar Council]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|date=18 October 2015|title=Abdul Matin Khasru made bar council chairman|newspaper=Dhaka Tribune|url=http://archive.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/oct/18/abdul-matin-khasru-made-bar-council-chairman|url-status=dead|access-date=5 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905232116/http://archive.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/oct/18/abdul-matin-khasru-made-bar-council-chairman|archive-date=5 September 2017}}</ref>
Khasru was a senior advocate enrolled at the Bangladesh Bar Council. He was elected chairman of the executive committee of the [[Bangladesh Bar Council]] in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|date=18 October 2015|title=Abdul Matin Khasru made bar council chairman|newspaper=Dhaka Tribune|url=http://archive.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/oct/18/abdul-matin-khasru-made-bar-council-chairman|url-status=dead|access-date=5 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905232116/http://archive.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/oct/18/abdul-matin-khasru-made-bar-council-chairman|archive-date=5 September 2022}}</ref>


On 16 March 2021, he won the ''Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association Election 2021-2022'' as the president from the White Panel backed by the Bangladesh Awami League. He died before taking charge.<ref>{{Cite web|last=lawyersclubbangladesh.com|date=2021-04-12|title=সুপ্রিম কোর্টে বারের দায়িত্ব নিয়েছেন নব নির্বাচিত কমিটি|url=http://lawyersclubbangladesh.com/2021/04/12/সুপ্রিম-কোর্টে-বারের-দায়/|access-date=2021-04-15|website=lawyersclubbangladesh|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-14|title=Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru dies|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/obituary/2021/04/14/former-law-minister-abdul-matin-khasru-dies|access-date=2021-04-15|website=Dhaka Tribune}}</ref>
On 16 March 2021, he won the ''Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association Election 2021-2022'' as the president from the White Panel backed by the Bangladesh Awami League. He died before taking charge.<ref>{{Cite web|last=lawyersclubbangladesh.com|date=2021-04-12|title=সুপ্রিম কোর্টে বারের দায়িত্ব নিয়েছেন নব নির্বাচিত কমিটি|url=http://lawyersclubbangladesh.com/2021/04/12/সুপ্রিম-কোর্টে-বারের-দায়/|access-date=2021-04-15|website=lawyersclubbangladesh|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-14|title=Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru dies|url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/obituary/2021/04/14/former-law-minister-abdul-matin-khasru-dies|access-date=2021-04-15|website=Dhaka Tribune}}</ref>
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Khasru was elected to the parliament in 2008 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.<ref name=":1" /> He headed the Parliamentarians' Caucus on Disability during the 9th parliamentary sessions.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-09-28|title=CRP's activities unique, imitable|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-204329|access-date=2021-04-14|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref> On 23 March 2011, he criticised the use of "vulgar" words by members of parliament in the Jatiya Sangshad.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-03-23|title=Uproar in JS over diatribes|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-178785|access-date=2021-04-14|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>  
Khasru was elected to the parliament in 2008 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.<ref name=":1" /> He headed the Parliamentarians' Caucus on Disability during the 9th parliamentary sessions.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-09-28|title=CRP's activities unique, imitable|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-204329|access-date=2021-04-14|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref> On 23 March 2011, he criticised the use of "vulgar" words by members of parliament in the Jatiya Sangshad.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-03-23|title=Uproar in JS over diatribes|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-178785|access-date=2021-04-14|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>  


Khasru was re-elected to the parliament in 2014 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.<ref name=":1" /> In 2015, he was made the law secretary of Bangladesh Awami League.<ref>{{cite news|last=Siddique|first=Mohammad Abu Bakar|date=25 October 2016|title=AL central working committee names declared|newspaper=Dhaka Tribune|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/politics/2016/10/25/al-announces-names-new-committee/|accessdate=11 December 2016}}</ref> He became a member of the party's Presidium in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|date=22 July 2017|title=Ex-law minister Khasru made AL Presidium Member, Rezaul Legal Affairs Secretary|newspaper=bdnews24.com|url=http://bdnews24.com/politics/2017/07/22/ex-law-minister-khasru-made-al-presidium-member-rezaul-legal-affairs-secretary}}</ref>
Khasru was re-elected to the parliament in 2014 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.<ref name=":1" /> In 2015, he was made the law secretary of Bangladesh Awami League.<ref>{{cite news|last=Siddique|first=Mohammad Abu Bakar|date=25 October 2016|title=AL central working committee names declared|newspaper=Dhaka Tribune|url=http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/politics/2016/10/25/al-announces-names-new-committee/|accessdate=11 December 2022}}</ref> He became a member of the party's Presidium in 2017.<ref>{{cite news|date=22 July 2017|title=Ex-law minister Khasru made AL Presidium Member, Rezaul Legal Affairs Secretary|newspaper=bdnews24.com|url=http://bdnews24.com/politics/2017/07/22/ex-law-minister-khasru-made-al-presidium-member-rezaul-legal-affairs-secretary}}</ref>


Khasru was re-elected to the parliament in 2018 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.<ref name=":1" /> He was the president of the parliamentary standing committee on law. He summoned the Anti-Corruption Commission to parliament over its failure to take action against the former chairperson of [[BASIC Bank Limited|BASIC Bank]], [[Sheikh Abdul Hai Bacchu]], on loans scams.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-31|title=Basic Bank scam: JS body summons ACC for not taking action against Bacchu|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/basic-bank-scam-anti-corruption-commission-not-taking-action-bacchu-1821331|access-date=2021-04-14|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>  
Khasru was re-elected to the parliament in 2018 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.<ref name=":1" /> He was the president of the parliamentary standing committee on law. He summoned the Anti-Corruption Commission to parliament over its failure to take action against the former chairperson of [[BASIC Bank Limited|BASIC Bank]], [[Sheikh Abdul Hai Bacchu]], on loans scams.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-31|title=Basic Bank scam: JS body summons ACC for not taking action against Bacchu|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/basic-bank-scam-anti-corruption-commission-not-taking-action-bacchu-1821331|access-date=2021-04-14|website=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref>  
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==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* {{cite news |title=MPs' relatives to also enjoy car sticker privileges |url=http://archive.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/jan/30/mps%E2%80%99-relatives-also-enjoy-car-sticker-privileges |newspaper=Dhaka Tribune |access-date=2016-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905233949/http://archive.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/jan/30/mps%E2%80%99-relatives-also-enjoy-car-sticker-privileges |archive-date=2017-09-05 |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite news |title=MPs' relatives to also enjoy car sticker privileges |url=http://archive.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/jan/30/mps%E2%80%99-relatives-also-enjoy-car-sticker-privileges |newspaper=Dhaka Tribune |access-date=2016-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905233949/http://archive.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2015/jan/30/mps%E2%80%99-relatives-also-enjoy-car-sticker-privileges |archive-date=2017-09-05 |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite news |title=Campaigners demand hike in tobacco taxes |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/business/campaigners-demand-hike-tobacco-taxes-1221232 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=10 May 2016}}
* {{cite news |title=Campaigners demand hike in tobacco taxes |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/business/campaigners-demand-hike-tobacco-taxes-1221232 |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=10 May 2022}}


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Abdul Matin Khasru
আবদুল মতিন খসরু
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Khasru in 2018
Minister of Law and Justice
In office
14 January 1997 – 15 July 2001
Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina
Preceded byMirza Ghulam Hafiz
Succeeded byMoudud Ahmed
Member of Parliament
for Comilla-5
In office
5 March 1991 – 24 November 1995
Preceded byMohammad Yunus
In office
14 July 1996 – 13 July 2001
Preceded byMujibur Rahman
In office
25 January 2009 – 14 April 2021
Preceded byMohammad Yunus
Personal details
Born(1950-02-12)12 February 1950
Comilla District, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan
Died14 April 2021(2021-04-14) (aged 71)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyBangladesh Awami League
Alma materComilla Victoria Government College
OccupationLawyer, Politician

Abdul Matin Khasru (12 February 1950 – 14 April 2021)[1][2][3] was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He was a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Comilla-5 constituency during 1991–1995, 1996–2001 and 2009–2021.[4][5][6][7] He served in the first Hasina cabinet as Minister of Law and Justice from 1997 until 2001.[8]

Personal life[edit | edit source]

Khasru completed his SSC from Madhabpur High School in 1967.[9] He got admitted to Comilla Victoria Government College and completed graduation in 1970.[10] They were four brothers and three sisters of whom he was the eldest. His father served in the Pakistan Army. His son Munem Wasif is a photojournalist who works at Agence Vu photography agency.[11] Khasru was actively involved in politics since his student life. When he was a graduate student, the Bangladesh Liberation war started. Khasru fought in Burichang in Comilla District during the war.[2]

Career[edit | edit source]

Khasru started his legal practice at the District and Sessions Judges Court, Comilla in 1978.[2] Later he started practicing in the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court in 1982. He founded a law firm Abdul Matin Khasru & Associates in Dhaka.

Khasru was a senior advocate enrolled at the Bangladesh Bar Council. He was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Bangladesh Bar Council in 2015.[12]

On 16 March 2021, he won the Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association Election 2021-2022 as the president from the White Panel backed by the Bangladesh Awami League. He died before taking charge.[13][14]

Political career[edit | edit source]

Khasru was first elected to Parliament in 1991 from Comilla-5 on a nomination of Awami League defeating the incumbent, Mohammad Yunus of the Jatiya Party. He was re-elected in 1996.[15]

Khasru stood for re-election in 2001 but lost to Mohammad Yunus who had then been nominated by Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[16]

Khasru was elected to the parliament in 2008 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.[16] He headed the Parliamentarians' Caucus on Disability during the 9th parliamentary sessions.[17] On 23 March 2011, he criticised the use of "vulgar" words by members of parliament in the Jatiya Sangshad.[18]

Khasru was re-elected to the parliament in 2014 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.[16] In 2015, he was made the law secretary of Bangladesh Awami League.[19] He became a member of the party's Presidium in 2017.[20]

Khasru was re-elected to the parliament in 2018 on an Awami League nomination from Comilla-5.[16] He was the president of the parliamentary standing committee on law. He summoned the Anti-Corruption Commission to parliament over its failure to take action against the former chairperson of BASIC Bank, Sheikh Abdul Hai Bacchu, on loans scams.[21]

On 10 April 2020, Mosheur Mahfuz Babu, journalist and owner of Times of Cumilla, was arrested under the Digital Security Act for spreading "rumours" about Khasru. The website had reported Khasru's death.[22] During the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh, Khasru provided food aid to 5000 families in Comilla in April 2020.[23]

Death[edit | edit source]

Khasru died on 14 April 2021 after contracting COVID-19. He was under treatment at the Combined Military Hospital.[2] He had a son Munem Wasif and a daughter.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ "Constituency 253_10th_En". www.parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru dies of COVID". bdnews24.com. Archived from the original on 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  3. ↑ "Supreme Court Bar president Abdul Matin Khasru dies of Covid-19". The Business Standard. 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  4. ↑ "Constituency 253". Bangladesh Parliament. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
  5. ↑ "List of 5th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "List of 9th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament.
  8. ↑ "Honorable Minister". Law and Justice Division. Archived from the original on 2018-01-22. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
  9. ↑ Abdul Matin Khasru MP, retrieved 2021-04-15
  10. ↑ ৩৬৫ সেকেন্ড রাজনীতি নয়, retrieved 2021-04-15
  11. ↑ "Ex-law minister Abdul Matin Khasru laid to rest". Daily Bangladesh.
  12. ↑ "Abdul Matin Khasru made bar council chairman". Dhaka Tribune. 18 October 2015. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2017. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 5 September 2017 suggested (help)
  13. ↑ lawyersclubbangladesh.com (2021-04-12). "সুপ্রিম কোর্টে বারের দায়িত্ব নিয়েছেন নব নির্বাচিত কমিটি". lawyersclubbangladesh. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  14. ↑ "Former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru dies". Dhaka Tribune. 2021-04-14. Retrieved 2021-04-15.
  15. ↑ "Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". 2008-12-29. Archived from the original on 2008-12-29. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "Cumilla-5 - Constituency detail of Bangladesh General Election 2018". The Daily Star. 2018-11-25. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  17. ↑ "CRP's activities unique, imitable". The Daily Star. 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  18. ↑ "Uproar in JS over diatribes". The Daily Star. 2011-03-23. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  19. ↑ Siddique, Mohammad Abu Bakar (25 October 2016). "AL central working committee names declared". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  20. ↑ "Ex-law minister Khasru made AL Presidium Member, Rezaul Legal Affairs Secretary". bdnews24.com. 22 July 2017.
  21. ↑ "Basic Bank scam: JS body summons ACC for not taking action against Bacchu". The Daily Star. 2019-10-31. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  22. ↑ "Digital Security Act: Journo jailed in Cumilla for spreading rumours". The Daily Star. 2020-04-10. Retrieved 2021-04-14.
  23. ↑ "AL lawmaker Khasru extends food aid to 5,000 families in Cumilla". The Daily Star. 2020-04-24. Retrieved 2021-04-14.

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