Matlab North (Chandpur) Correspondent

Awami League Presidium Member and former disaster management and relief minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya Bir Bikram collected the nomination papers of Awami League from Chandpur-2 (Matlab North-Matlab South) Constituency.

He collected nomination papers on the second day of sale of Awami League nomination forms ahead of the 12th National Parliament elections on Sunday.

On this day, her eldest son Sajedul Hossain Chowdhury Dipu, Member of the Executive Committee of the Dhaka Metropolitan South Awami League, collected the nomination papers on behalf of Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya from the Awami League office at Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital.

He was accompanied by Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya' grand son and Sajedul Hossain Chowdhury Dipur, eldest son of Maya Ashfaq Chowdhury Mahi, former vice president of Bangladesh Chhatra League Central Committee, Matlab Uttar Upazila Awami League Organizing Secretary Jahangir Alam Howladar, Joint Secretary Ayub Ali Gazi, Chengarchar Municipality's former mayor Rafiqul. Islam, Jubo League leader Kamrul Hasan Mamun and others were present.

Leaders and activists of Matlab Upazila Awami League and its affiliated organizations were present at the time.

Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya started his political career in 1965 through student politics. He was elected as Member of Parliament from Chandpur-2 Constituency in 1996 and 2014. He was appointed as the Minister of State for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives in 1997, and later served as the Minister of State for Shipping from 1998-2001.

And from 2014-2019, he served as Minister in the Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief. Currently he is a Presidium Member of Bangladesh Awami League.

Before that he was the General Secretary of undivided Dhaka Metropolitan Awami League and central executive member of Bangladesh Awami League.