AKM Mozammel Haque
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AKM Mozammel in 2017
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| Minister for Liberation War Affairs | |
| Assumed office 5 January 2014 | |
| Preceded by | Shajahan Khan |
| Minister of Religious Affairs | |
| In office 11 December 2018 – 6 January 2019 | |
| Succeeded by | Motiur Rahman |
| Member of Parliament | |
| Assumed office 25 January 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Md. Rahamat Ali |
| Constituency | Gazipur-1 |
| President of Gazipur Awami League | |
| Assumed office 29 June 2003 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1946-10-01) 1 October 1946 (age 77) Gazipur District, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Political party | Bangladesh Awami League |
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Mozammel Haque (born 1 October 1946) is a Bangladesh Awami League Politician and the Minister for Liberation War Affairs of Bangladesh since 2014.[1][2][3][4]Mozammal is a Member of Parliament for Gazipur-1 constituency.
Haque was born on 1 October 1946 in Dakhina Khan, Gazipur Sadar Upazila, Gazipur District to Anwar Ali and Rabeya Khatun.[5]
Haque was a member of the East Pakistan Chhatra League Central Working Committee. He fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971 and was part of the Mukti Bahini. From 1973 to 1986, he was elected Upazila chairman three times and four times municipal mayor. He was elected to the parliament from Gazipur-1 in 2008. He was elected unopposed from the same constituency in the 2014 elections which the opposition boycotted citing unfair conditions for the election.[6] He acted as the religious minister of Bangladesh from 2018 to 2019. In 2019, he was appointed the Minister for Liberation War Affairs.[5]
In his 1986 book Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood, Anthony Mascarenhas wrote Mozammel was involved in a gang-rape of a newlywed wife in 1974.[7]
The incident has been also depicted in novel DeyalbyHumayun Ahmed.[citation needed]
