M. M. Rahmatullah
Bangladeshi politician
Mian Muhammad Rahmatullah, (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ রহমত উললাহ, 13 June 1940 – 2014) was a former East Pakistani and later Bangladeshi bureaucrat and politician. He was the former chief engineer of the Public Works Department and later the chairman of the Capital Development Authority of the Government of Bangladesh. In 2000, he was an electoral candidate from Natore Area for the Parliament of Bangladesh.
In 1991, after former military dictator General Ershad stepped down as the president of Bangladesh, Rahmatullah was charged in the infamous Janata Tower Case and named the third defendant after the president and the former first lady (and Member of Parliament) by the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He was later acquitted when the judge agreed that the case was filed on political grounds by the newly elected ruling party.
He was the husband of Gole Afroz of the aristocratic Singranatore family; the granddaughter of Jalaluddin Mirza, a Zamindar of Natore and was instrumental in building the Gole Afroz College, which was named after his wife.
Early life and education
Rahmatullah was born to an eminent landholding Muslim family called the Mandals and the clan gave name to the town of origin, Mondolpara (meaning "area of the Mandals" in Bengali) in Natore, then part of British India. The Mondol family were chiefs of the Mandals or small estates of the Raj.
After being educated around Rajshahi, he graduated from the Ahsanullah College of Engineering in Dacca with a BS in civil engineering and became a public official during the East Pakistan Provincial Government, where he served as a divisional engineer before becoming the superintending engineer. He served throughout the 1971 War of Liberation and then joined the government service of independent Bangladesh.
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