Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin

Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin (Bengali: মীর মোহাম্মদ নাসিরুদ্দিন) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former minister of state for civil aviation and tourism and mayor of chittagong.^[1]

Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin
মীর মোহাম্মদ নাসিরুদ্দিন
Nasiruddin in Kolkata (2005)
Minister of State For Civil Aviation and Tourism
In office 10 October 2001 – 17 November 2005
Prime Minister	Khaleda Zia
Preceded by	Sayed Ashraful Islam
Succeeded by	Md. Mahbub Ali
2nd Mayor of Chittagong
In office 1 May 1991 – 20 December 1993
Preceded by	Mahmudul Islam Chowdhury
Succeeded by	A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury
Personal details
Born	Chittagong, Bengal Province now Bangladesh
Political party	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Children	Mir Helal
Occupation	Politician

Career

Nasiruddin served as the state minister of civil aviation and tourism in the second Khaleda Zia cabinet.^[2] He was the Four-party Alliance candidate in the 2005 Chittagong mayoral election. He was defeated by the incumbent mayor A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury of the Bangladesh Awami League.^[3] He is an adviser of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson and former prime minister of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia.^[4] On 5 May 2017, he met the chief of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Shah Ahmad Shafi, at Hathazari Madrasa, Chittagong.^[5]

Corruption

On 12 July 2007, Nasiruddin was jailed by a special anti-corruption court for corruption along with his son Mir Mohammed Helal Uddin for 13 years.^[6] The Bangladesh High Court nullified the sentences in August 2010. On 3 July 2014, the Bangladesh Supreme Court scrapped the High Court order that acquitted him of all charges.^[7]