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Prof Ahmad: new President of Bangladesh
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By
Zafarul-Islam Khan, IOL South Asia Correspondent
NEW
DELHI, Sept 5 (IslamOnline) - A retired university professor, Iazuddin
Ahmad, is set to become the new Bangladesh President unopposed, official
sources said in Dhaka Wednesday, September 4, 2002, after the deadline
for filing nominations passed.
Nomination
papers for Prof Ahmad were filed Wednesday after the ruling four-party
alliance led by Premier Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh National Party (BNP)
endorsed his candidature for the post Tuesday after consultations with
other partners in the ruling coalition.
Prof.
Ahmad is most likely to be declared President as the main opposition
Awami League decided not to field its candidate. Reportedly, the
opposition Awami League boycotted the election process. Only two months
ago, June 25, it gave up an eight-month boycott of the Parliament.
"Tomorrow
is fixed for scrutiny of the nomination papers. If there is no other
candidate and the papers of Professor Ahmad are found alright, the
Election Commission will declare him President uncontested,"
sources said.
Had
there been any other contestant, then elections would have been held on
September 16 for which Parliament has been convened on September 12.
Bangladesh
Election Commission sources said four nominations papers on behalf of
Professor Ahmad, a retired Dhaka University teacher and BNP ideologue,
were submitted by top leaders of the party including its secretary
general and Cooperatives Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuyian and Law, Justice
and Parliamentary Affairs Ministers Barrister Moudud Ahmad.
The
election was necessitated following the resignation of Prof A.Q.M.
Badruddoja Chowdhury in June over a controversy on the death anniversary
celebrations of BNP founder President Zia-ur Rahman who was assassinated
in 1981. President Chowdhury's absence from the death celebrations
attracted sharp criticism from ruling party members.
The
presidency has remained vacant since Prof. Chowdhury's resignation on
June 21. Since then, Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad (Parliament)
Zamiruddin Sircar has been the acting President. Bangladesh's
constitution requires a presidential election no more than 90 days after
the post is vacated.
Prof.
Iazuddin Ahmad belongs to a respectable family with religious
background. He was born in Munshiganj in 1931. His father was late
Moulvi Ibrahim.
Prof.
Ahmad was an adviser in the caretaker government in 1991. He was also
chairman of the Public Service Commission from 1991 to 1993 and chairman
of the University Grants Commission from 1995 to 1999. He earlier held
the post of chairman of the Soil Science Department of Dhaka University
and dean of the Faculty of Biological Science of the same University.
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