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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician (1950–2022)}}<br />
{{similar names||Abdul Mannan (disambiguation)}}<br />
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{{infobox officeholder<br />
| name = M. A. Mannan<br />
| native_name = এম. এ. মান্নান<br />
| native_name_lang = bn<br />
| order = 1st<br />
| office = Mayor of Gazipur<br />
| term_start = 1 June 2017<br />
| term_end = 6 July 2017<br />
| predecessor = {{ubl| Asadur Rahman Kiron|{{Small|''as [[Mayor|Acting Mayor]]''}}}} <br />
| successor = {{ubl| Asadur Rahman Kiron|{{Small|''as [[Mayor|Acting Mayor]]''}}}} <br />
| term_start1 = 6 July 2013<br />
| term_end1 = 11 February 2015<br />
| predecessor1 = ''Position established''<br />
| successor1 = {{ubl| Asadur Rahman Kiron|{{Small|''as [[Mayor|Acting Mayor]]''}}}} <br />
| office2 = [[Ministry of Religious Affairs (Bangladesh)|Minister of State for Religious Affairs]]<br />
| term_start2 = 20 March 1991<br />
| term_end2 = 30 March 1996<br />
| primeminister2 = [[Khaleda Zia]]<br />
| predecessor2 = [[Kazi Shah Mofazzal Hossain Kaikobad]]<br />
| successor2 = Abdur Rahman Khan<br />
| office3 = [[Member of Parliament (Bangladesh)|Member of Parliament]]<br />
| constituency3 = [[Gazipur-2]]<br />
| term_start3 = 5 March 1991<br />
| term_end3 = 24 November 1995<br />
| predecessor3 = [[Hasan Uddin Sarkar]]<br />
| successor3 = [[Ahsanullah Master]]<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth year|1950}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Gazipur]], [[East Bengal]], [[Dominion of Pakistan|Pakistan]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and given age|2022|04|28|72|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh<br />
| alma_mater = [[University of Dhaka]]<br />
| nationality = Bangladeshi<br />
| party = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]<br />
| awards = [[File:Bir Bikrom Ribbon.svg|30px]] [[Bir Bikrom]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Mohammad Abdul Mannan''' (1950 – 28 April 2022)<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-04-28 |title=First mayor of Gazipur city MA Mannan no more |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/first-mayor-gazipur-city-ma-mannan-no-more-3014491 |access-date=2022-05-01 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> was a politician of the [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]. He was the first elected city mayor of [[Gazipur City Corporation]] of Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://worldtimes24.com/gazipur-city-mayor-detained/ |title=Gazipur city Mayor detained |publisher=World Times 24 |date=11 February 2015 |access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref> Before that, he served as the religious affairs minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1993.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/people-will-vote-for-me-mannan |title=People will vote for me: Mannan |work=[[bdnews24.com]] |date=3 July 2013 |access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref> He also served as the [[Minister of Science and Technology (Bangladesh)|Minister of Science and Technology]] from 1993 to 1995.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Baxter |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Historical_Dictionary_of_Bangladesh_Hist/PWKCmtu-RT4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Mohammad%20Abdul%20Mannan%20Minister%201993&pg=PA229&printsec=frontcover |title=Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh (Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East) |last2=Rahman |date=2003-09-22 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |isbn=978-0-8108-4863-4 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Abdul Mannan was elected [[Gazipur City Corporation]] mayor in July 2013 and assumed office in August. In February 2015, police arrested him for his suspected involvement in an arson attack on a bus in Gazipur in February the same year.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=470062&date=2015-02-11 |title=GCC Mayor Mannan arrested in city |work=[[Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha]] (BSS) |date=11 February 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825211624/http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=470062&date=2015-02-11 |archive-date=25 August 2016 |access-date=26 July 2016}}</ref> The next month, panel mayor, local Awami League leader [[Asadur Rahman Kiron]], who was elected a ward councillor, was made acting mayor upon a court directive. Mannan was released from jail in March 2016. He was arrested again in April of the same year and released in January 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/country/bnp-backed-gazipur-city-mayor-ma-mannan-suspended-again-1429180 |title=Gazipur city mayor suspended again |date=6 July 2017 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=21 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref> He rejoined the office in June 2017, but the Local Government Division (LGD) suspended him for the third time on 6 July 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/gazipur-city-corporation-gcc-mayor-abdul-mannan-suspension-once-again-1429363 |title=Suspension, once again |date=7 July 2017 |work=The Daily Star |access-date=21 August 2018 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1950 births]]<br />
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[[Category:People from Gazipur District]]<br />
[[Category:Politicians from Dhaka Division]]<br />
[[Category:Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians]]<br />
[[Category:5th Jatiya Sangsad members]]<br />
[[Category:State ministers of religious affairs of Bangladesh]]<br />
[[Category:Mayors of Gazipur]]<br />
[[Category:Mukti Bahini personnel]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Bir Bikrom]]<br />
[[Category:Date of birth missing]]<br />
[[Category:Ministers of science and technology of Bangladesh]]<br />
[[Category:Bangladeshi academics]]<br />
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