GM Quader

Ghulam Muhammed Quader (known as GM Quader; born 24 February 1948)[1] is a Bangladeshi politician and the current chairperson of Jatiya Party. He is the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member from the Lalmonirhat-3 constituency.[2] He served as the Minister of Commerce and Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism from 2009 to 2014.

GM Quader
জি এম কাদের
Member of Parliament
for Lalmonirhat-3
Assumed office
7 January 2019
Preceded byAbu Saleh Mohammad Sayeed
In office
6 January 2009 – 9 January 2014
Preceded byAsadul Habib Dulu
Succeeded byAbu Saleh Mohammad Sayeed
In office
23 June 1996 – 15 July 2001
Preceded byMd. Riaz Uddin Ahmed
Succeeded byAsadul Habib Dulu
Chairman of the Jatiya Party (Ershad)
Assumed office
14 July 2019
Preceded byHussain Muhammad Ershad
Minister of Commerce
In office
6 December 2011 – 5 January 2014
Preceded byFaruk Khan
Succeeded byTofail Ahmed
Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism
In office
6 January 2009 – 5 December 2011
Preceded byMirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir
Succeeded byFaruk Khan
Personal details
Born
Ghulam Muhammed Quader

(1948-02-24) 24 February 1948
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyJatiya Party
RelativesHussain Muhammad Ershad (brother)
Mozammel Hossain Lalu (brother)
Alma materBangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
Websitegmquader.com

Education and career

Quader completed his SSC and HSC from Rangpur Zilla School and Rangpur Carmichael College. He obtained his BSc in mechanical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 1969.

Quader, presidium member of Jatiya Party (JP), held different important posts in several important ministries and organizations including Ministry of Establishment, Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, Jamuna Oil Company and Bangladesh Tobacco Company (now British American Tobacco Bangladesh). He worked in the Ministry of Agriculture in Iraq as a mechanical engineer from 1976 to 1977.[3]

Quader was elected lawmaker with Jatiya Party ticket in the seventh parliamentary election and served as member of parliamentary standing committee on defence ministry. He was also elected as lawmaker in eighth parliamentary election and served as a member of standing committee on agriculture ministry.

From 2016, he joined his elder brother, Hussain Muhammad Ershad group, who is the founder and chairman of Jatiya Party(E) had declared to make him the co-chairman of the party although his wife Rowshan Ershad, who is now leader of the opposition at the parliament, and her MPs are against his decision.

Family

Quader's elder brother, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, was the founding president of Jatiya Party and the former President of Bangladesh. [4] His other brother, Mozammel Hossain Lalu, was a politician and a banker.[5]

References
  1. "Constituency 18_11th_En". www.parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  2. "List of 11th Parliament Members English". www.parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  3. "Official Website of Ghulam Muhammed Quader". gmquader.com. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
  4. "GM Quader given charge to run JP". The Daily Star. 15 May 2010.
  5. "Ershad wants tomb on his grave". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2019-07-22.
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