{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{infobox officeholder | name = Khondkar Delwar Hossain | image = Khandaker Delwar Hossain.jpg | caption = | office = 7th [[General Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] | 1blankname = Chairperson | 1namedata = [[Khaleda Zia]] | term_start = 3 September 2007 | term_end = 16 March 2011 | predecessor = [[Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan]] | successor = [[Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir]] | office1 = 5th & 7th [[Chief Whip (Bangladesh)|Chief Whip of Parliament]] | 1blankname1 = Speaker | 1namedata1 = [[Jamiruddin Sircar]] | term_start1 = 28 October 2001 | term_end1 = 27 October 2006 | predecessor1 = [[Abul Hasnat Abdullah]] | successor1 = [[Md Abdus Shahid]] | 1blankname2 = Speaker | 1namedata2 = {{ubl|[[Abdur Rahman Biswas]]|[[Sheikh Razzaque Ali]]}} | term_start2 = 5 April 1991 | term_end2 = 30 March 1996 | predecessor2 = [[M. A. Sattar]] | successor2 = Abul Hasnat Abdullah | constituency_MP3 = [[Manikganj-1]] | term_start3 = 5 April 1991 | term_end3 = 27 October 2006 | predecessor3 = [[Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman]] | successor3 = [[A. B. M. Anowarul Haque]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1933|02|01|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Manikganj District]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] | alma_mater = [[University of Dhaka]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2011|3|16|1933|02|01|df=y}} | death_place = [[Singapore|Singapore City]], Singapore | occupation = Politician | relatives = [[Khandkar Manwar Hossain]] (brother) | party = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] | awards = [[Ekushey Padak]] (2005) }} '''Khondkar Delwar Hossain''' (1 February 1933 – 16 March 2011) was a [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] politician.<ref name=bpedia>{{Cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Hossain,_Khondakar_Delwar|title=Hossain, Khondakar Delwar |website=Banglapedia|access-date=6 September 2019}}</ref> He served as the secretary general of the party.<ref name=death>{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-178052|title=Delwar passes away|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=17 March 2011|access-date=18 May 2016}}</ref> He was elected five times as a [[Member of Parliament]] from constituency [[Manikganj-1]] (Ghior-Doulatpur).<ref name=death/>
Delwar was awarded [[Ekushey Padak]] in 2005 by the [[government of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2005/02/18/d50218011817.htm|title=14 to get Ekushey Padak|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=18 February 2005|access-date=6 September 2019|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402104029/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2005/02/18/d50218011817.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=bpedia/>
==Early life== Hossain was born in Khirai Pachuria Village of [[Ghior Upazila]], [[Manikganj District]], [[East Bengal]], [[British India]] on 1 February 1933.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Khan |first=Muazzam Hussain |date=17 June 2021 |title=Hossain, Khondakar Delwar |url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Hossain,_Khondakar_Delwar |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=[[Banglapedia]] |language=en}}</ref> His father, Khondakar Abdul Hamid, was an alim and his mother was Aktara Khatoon.<ref name=":0" /> He graduated from Manikganj Government High School and Government Debendra College in 1947 and 1949 respectively.<ref name=":0" />
Hossain completed his bachelor in economics at the University of Dhaka in 1953.<ref name=":0" /> He had participated in the Bengali Language movement.<ref name=":0" /> He obtained his law degree from the [[University of Dhaka]] in 1955.<ref name=":0" /> He started his political career through the [[Bengali language movement]] in 1952.<ref name=":0" /> He campaigned for the [[Jukta Front]] candidate in the 1954 election.<ref name=":0" />
== Career == Hossain took a teaching job at Murari Chand College in Sylhet after completion of his studies in the economics department.<ref name=":0" /> He joined the Manikganj subdivisional bar to start his legal practice. In 1957, he joined the [[National Awami Party (Bhashani)|National Awami Party]] led by [[Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani]].<ref name=":0" /> In 1964, he served as the chief of the Manikganj subdivision election monitoring committee for Fatima Jinnah, the Combined Opposition Party candidate.<ref name=":0" />
Hossain was elected president of the National Awami Party unit in Manikganj in 1965.<ref name=":0" /> He participated in the [[Six point movement]] against the government of Pakistan.<ref name=":0" /> He also participated in protests against President [[Ayub Khan]].<ref name=":0" /> In the [[1970 Pakistani general election]] he stood as a nominee of the [[National Awami Party]] faction led by [[Muzaffar Ahmed (NAP Politician)|Muzaffar Ahmed]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Chakravarty |first=S. R. |year=1988 |title=Bangladesh, the Nineteen Seventy-nine Elections |location=New Delhi |publisher=South Asian Publishers |page=122 |isbn=81-7003-088-9 |quote=Khandakar Delwar Hossain BNP Contested as NAP (M) candidate in 1970 election.}}</ref> Hossain worked as an organizer in the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] and was a Revolutionary Command Council member in Manikganj.<ref name=":0" />
In 1978, Hossain joined Military dictator<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-02 |title=Bangladesh's first military dictator Gen Zia was keen on military control in 1971, says author Sukharanjan Dasgupta |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/bangladesh-s-first-military-dictator-gen-zia-was-keen-on-military-control-in-1971-says-author-sukharanjan-dasgupta-1995641-2022-09-02 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=India Today |language=en}}</ref> President [[Ziaur Rahman]]'s political party, the [[Jatiyatabadi Ganatantrik Dal]].<ref name=":0" /> He was made convenor of the party in Manikganj District.<ref name=":0" /> After the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the successor to the Dal, was created, he was elected chairman of the party in Manikganj District in 1979.<ref name=":0" /> He was elected member of parliament in 1979 from [[Manikganj-1]].<ref name=":0" /> From 1979 to 1981, he was a member of the Dhaka University Senate.<ref name=":0" /> He was the vice-president of Bangladesh Samabaya Bank Limited from 1979 to 1982.<ref name=":0" />
In the 1980s, Hossain campaigned against strongman President [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad|Hussain Mohammad Ershad]].<ref name=":0" />
Hossain was appointed a member of the National Standing Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 1985.<ref name=":0" /> He was re-elected member of parliament in 1991 from [[Manikganj-1]].<ref name=":0" />
Hossain was re-elected in parliament in the [[February 1996 Bangladeshi general election]] and the [[June 1996 Bangladeshi general election]] from Manikganj-1.<ref name=":0" /> He was appointed chief whip of the opposition party.<ref name=":0" />
Hossain was re-elected in parliament from Manikganj-1 in the [[2001 Bangladeshi general election]].<ref name=":0" /> He was appointed the chief whip.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Liton |first1=Shakhawat |last2=Hasan |first2=Rashidul |date=2009-05-29 |title=Whips gobbled up MP club fund |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-90323 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> His house was raided by [[Bangladesh Army]] during [[Operation Clean Heart]].<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLIZfWQOfVw |title=অপারেশন ক্লিনহার্ট ২০০২ সালে যেভাবে পরিচালনা করেছিল সেনাবাহিনী |date=2022-10-20 |last=BBC News বাংলা |access-date=2024-07-01 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
After former Prime Minister and chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, [[Khaleda Zia]], was detained on 3 September 2007 she expelled general secretary [[Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan]] and replaced him with Hossain.<ref name=":0" /> She had made those changes through writing letters to Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, [[Ashraf Hossain]], and Khandaker Delwar Hossain on the eve of her arrest.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-09-04 |title=Her letters to Bhuiyan, Ashraf |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-2607 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> She was detained by the caretaker government which had come to power and declared emergency on 11 January 2007.<ref name=":0" /> The caretaker government had also filed six corruption cases against Hossain.<ref name="death" />
In September 2007, Hossain was the general secretary of a pro-Khaleda fraction of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and [[Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan]] was leader of the pro-reform fraction.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hasan |first=Rashidul |date=2007-09-14 |title=Both BNP groups out to woo B Chy |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-3919 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-10-08 |title=Pro-Bhuiyan leaders hits out at Delwar |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-7078 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>
[[Rapid Action Battalion]] officials anonymously accused Hossain's son of being involved in the [[Ya ba]] trade to ''[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-10-29 |title=2 BNP leaders' son, daughter involved |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-9386 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> The Daily Star would later admit it wrote articles against politician during this time using information supplied by [[Directorate General of Forces Intelligence]] and was not verified.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam admits to publishing DGFI-fed baseless stories |url=https://bdnews24.com/media-en/daily-star-editor-mahfuz-anam-admits-to-publishing-dgfi-fed-baseless-stories |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam admits to publishing DGFI-fed baseless stories |language=en}}</ref> On 31 October 2007, Hossain resigned from the post of secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from [[BIRDEM]] where he was under treatment.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2007-10-31 |title=Delwar talks of death threat to call it quits |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-9625 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> He had alleged a group was threatening him and his family which is why he had to resign.<ref name=":1" /> He was replaced by retired Major [[Hafizuddin Ahmed|Hafiz Uddin Ahmed]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Suman |first=Rakib Hasnet |date=2007-10-30 |title=Saifur acting chief, Hafiz secretary gen |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-9555 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>
Hossain's son was arrested on 1 November 2007 by [[Rapid Action Battalion]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=2007-11-01 |title=Infamous Paban captured |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-9807 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> He was accused of renting his guns to criminals.<ref name=":2" /> Police also said they were six cases against him from 2005 related to carjacking and extortion.<ref name=":2" />
In February 2008, acting chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party [[Saifur Rahman (Bangladeshi politician)|M Saifur Rahman]], was trying to negotiate with Hossain through [[Rizvi Ahmed]] to reunite the pro-reform and pro-Khaleda fractions of the party.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Suman |first=Rakib Hasnet |date=2008-02-02 |title=Saifur, Rizvi hold talks as Khaleda backs Delwar |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-21649 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> In March 2008, he went to Singapore on a medical trip.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-03-05 |title=BNP unification process at final stage |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-26189 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>
In April 2008, Hossain demanded the resignation of all three commissioners of [[Bangladesh Election Commission]] including [[A. T. M. Shamsul Huda]] for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to contest the next parliamentary elections.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-04-24 |title=No polls under Huda-led EC |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-33542 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> Hossain stated that Khaleda Zia needed to be released from prison to hold a fair election.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-09-06 |title=No favourable environment for polls without Khaleda's release |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-53524 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> He made major concessions from the caretaker government to participate in the elections despite Khaleda Zia asking him to take a less confrontational stance.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-09-28 |title='Khaleda alone' would steer BNP into future |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-204307 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> He also worked as a lawyer for Khaleda Zia.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-06-25 |title=Khaleda to endorse 4-party decision on local polls |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-42747 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> His son was arrested from jail gate after securing bail by Motijheel police.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-08-31 |title=Delwar's son re-arrested |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-52673 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>
Hossain was reappointed general secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on 8 December 2009.<ref name=":0" /> He founded Khandakar Nurul Hossain Law Academy, Khondokar Delwar Hossain College, and Pachuria Madrasa in Manikganj.<ref name=":0" /> He was the principal of Khandakar Nurul Hossain Law Academy.<ref name=":0" /> The Communist Party of Bangladesh criticized Hossain for his comments against the 1972 constitution of Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-10-03 |title=Delwar's remarks assault on liberation war |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-108227 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> He was summoned before the all-party parliamentary probe body on allegations of embezzling funds from the parliament.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Liton |first1=Shakhawat |last2=Hasan |first2=Rashidul |date=2009-06-20 |title=Sircar, Akhtar, Delwar summoned for June 27 |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-93489 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> He had refused to return money from Parliament Members' Club as he claimed he had taken the three hundred thousand BDT following the rules of the club.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-06-01 |title=Shahid to return money, but Farroque won't |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-90748 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>
Hossain accused government activists of attacking Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians and their properties across Bangladesh since Awami League won the election in 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-04-20 |title='Torture' of BNP men protested |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-135081 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> In June 2010, Hossain gave the official response of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party to the national budget describing it as ambitious but difficult to implement.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-06-11 |title=Hard to implement |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-142208 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> He sought time from the [[Anti-Corruption Commission (Bangladesh)|Anti-Corruption Commission]] to respond to allegations of embezzling from the Jatiya Sangsad funds.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-06-23 |title=Sircar, Delwar seek time from ACC |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-143807 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> The Commission started its investigation after the parliament forwarded its investigation to the commission and requested further investigation into the matter.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hossain |first=Emran |date=2010-02-08 |title=ACC gets JS probe report |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-125352 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> Police obstructed a human chain of Hossain in front of the [[Jatiya Press Club]] which led to the death of one party activist.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-07-08 |title=BNP agitates under cop vigil |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-145832 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> He asked the government to take steps to prevent the construction of the [[Tipaimukh Dam|Tipaimukh dam]] by India.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-06-14 |title=BNP asks govt to act quick on Tipai dam |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-92466 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == Hossain's son, Khondaker Abdul Hamid Dablu, was nominated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to contest the 2018 Bangladesh general election from Manikganj-1.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-12-25 |title=Manikganj-1: Dablu gets 'paddy sheaf', deprived Jinnah sent to jail |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/bangladesh-national-election-2018/news/manikganj-1-dablu-gets-paddy-sheaf-deprived-jinnah-sent-jail-1678354 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> His other son, Khandaker Akhter Hamid Khan Paban, was convicted of assaulting police officers during protests in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-20 |title=62 BNP men jailed for 42 months in 2018 police assault case |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/crime-justice/news/62-bnp-men-jailed-42-months-2018-police-assault-case-3474151 |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>
== Death == Hossain died on 16 March 2011 at the age of 78 in [[Mount Elizabeth Hospital]] in [[Singapore|Singapore City]].<ref name="death" /><ref name="bpedia" /> [[ABM Khairul Haque]], chief justice of Bangladesh, attended his [[Janaza]] at the Bangladesh High Court.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Delwar's burial today |url=https://archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/cache/cached-news-details-178298.html |access-date=2024-07-01 |website=archive.thedailystar.net}}</ref> [[Mujahidul Islam Selim]], [[Sayed Ashraful Islam|Syed Ashraful Islam]], [[Mahbubul Alam Hanif]], [[Rashed Khan Menon]], [[A.B.M. Ruhul Amin Howlader]], [[Md. Abdus Shahid]], [[Zainul Abdin Farooque]], [[Moudud Ahmed]], [[Jamiruddin Sircar]] among others attended his funeral.<ref name=":3" />
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