Bangladesh
President Notification issued declaring Sahabuddin as the President
Dhaka, February 15: The Election Commission (EC) has issued a notification announcing Md. Sahabuddin as the 22nd President of the country. Earlier on Monday afternoon, he was elected unopposed as there was no other candidate for the post of president. At that time Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal said that a notification will be issued in this regard today. In the afternoon, a notification signed by EC Secretary Jahangir Alam declared Md. Sahabuddin as the President.
Md. Sahabuddin was declared elected as the President of Bangladesh as only one nomination was valid after the examination of nomination papers submitted on Sunday (February 12). He was elected as per Section 7 of the Presidential Election Act 1991.
Earlier, Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina finalized Sahabuddin's nomination for the party's presidential post. Then on Sunday morning, the leaders of ruling party Awami League went to the Chief Election Commissioner's office with him. The general secretary of the party, Obaidul Quader, was with him at the time. They submitted the nomination form there. After verifying it, the election commission announced Sahabuddin as the president. Through this he is the 22nd head of state of Bangladesh.
Bir freedom fighter Md. Sahabuddin is a former commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and a member of the advisory council of Awami League. Sahabuddin, who had an illustrious career, was a lawyer, professor, journalist and judge.
On 15 August 1975, Sahabuddin was arrested under Article 7 of the Martial Law and spent almost three years in prison for protesting the killing of Bangabandhu and his family. He was born in 1949 in Jubilee Tankpara of Pabna city. Father late Sharfuddin Ansari and mother Mosammat Khairunnecha.
Md. Sahabuddin joined the BCS (Judiciary) department in 1982. In 1995, Md. Sahabuddin was elected as the Secretary General of the Judicial Service Association. During his career, he served as Assistant Judge, Joint District Judge, Additional District Judge and District Judge in various districts. He was also a professor of Shaheed Bulbul College.
Sahabuddin also served as the Pabna district representative of the now-defunct Bani newspaper of Bengal.
Md. Sahabuddin's wife Dr. Rebecca Sultana has retired from Joint Secretary to Government as an officer of BCS administration cadre. He is currently working as a professor in a private university. The only child of this couple Md. Arshad Adnan is a senior official of a private bank.
