Mahfuj Alam
Special assistant to chief advisor of interim government
Mahfuj Alam (Bengali: মাহফুজ আলম) also known as Mahfuj Abdullah, is a Bangladeshi activist and was a coordinator of the liaison committee of Students Against Discrimination which was involved in the July Uprising. He also served as an adviser of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Early life and education
Alam was born in 1998 in Narayanpur village, located in the Ramganj Upazila of Lakshmipur district. He completed his SSC (Dakhil) from Gallak Darussunnat Alim Madrasa in Chandpur, and later passed his HSC (Alim) from Tamirul Millat Kamil Madrasa. In the academic year 2015-16, he was a student in the Department of Law at the University of Dhaka.
Career
On 28 August 2024, he was appointed as Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser of the Interim government of Bangladesh.
On 26 February 2025, he was appointed as the adviser to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Co-founding Alternatives (2026)
In July 2026, Alam co-founded a new political platform called Alternatives with Tajnuva Jabeen, a former joint convener of the NCP. launched the platform with the stated aim of filling the "ideological vacuum" in Bangladesh's politics and offering a centrist alternative to the existing political parties.
According to a statement from the platform, Alternatives was created to "carry forward the spirit of the 2024 student-people uprising" and to build a "non-communal, democratic and progressive" political movement. The platform also announced a 17-member national organising committee headed by Alam and Jabeen, with the goal of ensuring positive youth participation in politics and reclaiming what it described as the "lost dreams" of the July uprising.
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