Mohammad Shahabuddin set to turn into twenty second President of Bangladesh

The Awami League nominated Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu as the following President of Bangladesh. He will substitute President Mohammad Abdul Hamid.

Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu filed his nomination for Bangladesh presidential election.

By Sahidul Hasan Khokon: Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu is ready to turn into the following President of Bangladesh after the ruling Awami League, which holds an absolute majority in Parliament, nominated him for the highest put up. He will substitute President Mohammad Abdul Hamid, whose tenure ends in April.

On Sunday, the members of the Awami League Advisory Council submitted papers to the Election Commission, nominating Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu to the highest put up.

Awami League workplace secretary Biplob Barua mentioned that the celebration’s basic secretary Obaidul Quader had proposed Sahabuddin’s identify as presidential candidate, with celebration’s joint basic secretary Hasan Mahmud supporting it.

Obaidul Quader spoke to reporters after the formalities of submission of nomination papers had been accomplished. He mentioned that Awami League chief and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina nominated Shahabuddin for the presidency.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina greeted Shahabuddin with a flower bouquet after the submission of his nomination.

“Everything is God’s will,” Shahabuddin Chuppu mentioned after submitting his nomination paper to the Election Commission.

WHY SHAHABUDDIN WILL BE ELECTED UNOPPOSED

Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu’s identify was nominated by the Awami League, which has absolutely the majority in Parliament.

According to the schedule for presidential election, nomination papers had been allowed to be submitted until 4 pm on Sunday. After verification on February 13, nomination papers will be withdrawn until 4pm on February 14.

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But no different candidates filed their nomination for presidential posts until the deadline on Sunday. The most important Opposition, Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), can not nominate anybody since all of its seven lawmakers resigned in December 2022.

The tenure of Mohammad Abdul Hamid, the longest-serving president of the nation, will finish in April. According to the Constitution, he can not maintain a 3rd time period. Therefore, Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu will probably be elected unopposed as Bangladesh President.

In Bangladesh, the President is elected by oblique voting in Parliament. Members of Parliament vote on this election. There at the moment are 305 Awami League members within the 350-seat Parliament.

WHO IS MOHAMMAD SHAHABUDDIN, BANGLADESH’S NEXT PRESIDENT

Mohammad Shahabuddin Chuppu is a lawyer by career and a member of the advisory council of the Bangladesh Awami League.

Born in 1949 in Pabna district, Chuppu was a frontrunner of the Awami League’s scholar and youth wings within the late Sixties and early Nineteen Seventies. He was the convener of Sadhin Bangla Chhatra Sangam Parishad in Pabna district in 1971, and the president of Pabna District Jubo League in 1974.

He participated within the 1971 Liberation War and was imprisoned for staging protests following the assassination of Bangladesh’s founder, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in 1975.

He joined the BCS (Judiciary) cadre in 1982 and was elected basic secretary of the Judicial Service Association in 1995.

Mohammad Shahabuddin served because the coordinator appointed by the Ministry of Law within the Bangabandhu homicide case when the Awami League returned to energy within the 1996 elections.

He additionally served because the Chairman of the Judicial Inquiry Commission set as much as examine the incidents of killings, rapes and looting that came about after the 2001 basic elections.

Mohammad Shahabuddin has beforehand served as a District and Sessions Judge and a Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission. He additionally served as Election Commissioner within the final National Council of Bangladesh Awami League.

Sahabuddin’s spouse, professor Dr. Rebecca Sultana, is a former Joint Secretary to the federal government. The couple has one son.

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Feb 12, 2023