Mosharraf_Hossain_(politician,_born_1943)
Mosharraf Hossain (politician, born 1943)
Bangladeshi politician and freedom fighter
Mosharraf Hossain (known as Engineer Mosharraf Hossain; born 12 January 1943)[1] is a Bangladeshi politician, valiant freedom fighter and one of the leading industrialists. He is a former Member of Parliament of Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad and former Minister of the Ministry of Housing and Public Works. After his graduation from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in 1966 he joined politics and was elected as a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) of what was then East Pakistan in 1970. In the political arena, he is the Presidium Member (No. 1), the highest policy-making post of Bangladesh Awami League, the oldest and traditional political organization of the country. His constituency is Chattogram-1 (Mirsarai).[2] He served the Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism in the Awami League government in 1996. He made significant contributions to the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. He served as the Minister in charge of the Ministry of Housing and Public Works till 6 January 2019.[3]