{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician}} {{About|the former member of the Bangladesh Parliament|the Chief prosecutor of International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh|Mohammad Tajul Islam|other people with similar names|Tajul Islam (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Md. Tazul Islam | native_name = মোঃ তাজুল ইসলাম | image = Tajul Islam MP (cropped).jpg | caption = Tazul in 2018 | office = Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and Co-operatives | prime_minister = Sheikh Hasina | term_start = 7 January 2019 | term_end = 6 August 2024 | deputy = Kazi Abdul Wadud Dara | predecessor = Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain | constituency_MP1 = Comilla-9 | parliament1 = Bangladesh | term_start1 = 29 December 2008 | term_end1 = 6 August 2024 | predecessor1 = Monirul Haq Chowdhury | constituency_MP2 = Comilla-10 | parliament2 = Bangladesh | term_start2 = 14 July 1996 | term_end2 = 13 July 2001 | predecessor2 = ATM Alamgir | successor2 = Anwarul Azim | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|6|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = Comilla District, East Bengal, Dominion of Pakistan | education = MBA | party = Bangladesh Awami League }} '''Mohammad Tazul Islam''' (born 30 June 1955) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former member of Jatiya Sangsad representing the Comilla-9 constituency. In January 2024, he is a former Minister of Local Government and Rural Development,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Hasina's new cabinet has 37 old and new faces |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/op4psurafq |access-date=2024-02-15 |work=bdnews24.com |language=en}}</ref> succeeding the 2019 election where he held the same position.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-01-06 |title=47-member new cabinet announced |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/new-cabinet-members-of-bangladesh-government-formed-monday-1683733 |access-date=2019-01-08 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>
==Early life== Tazul Islam was born on 30 June 1955<ref name="parlia">{{cite web|title=Constituency 257_10th_Bn|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/bn/mps-bangla/members-of-parliament-bangla/former-mp-s/2014-03-23-11-44-22?layout=edit&id=2322|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=21 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116035851/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/bn/mps-bangla/members-of-parliament-bangla/former-mp-s/2014-03-23-11-44-22?layout=edit&id=2322 |archive-date=2019-01-16}}</ref> in the village of Pomgaon in Laksam, Comilla District, East Bengal (now under Monoharganj Upazila, Bangladesh). He was the eldest of the three sons and four daughters of Zulfiqar Ali and Anwara Begum. Islam studied at the Pomgaon Government Primary School and Pomgaon High School. He then went onto study at the Nawab Faizunnesa Government College, before enrolling at the University of Chittagong where he earned his BA.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}} Islam obtained an MBA<ref>{{cite web |title=Md Tazul Islam Biography |url=https://amarmp.com/mp/708/biography |accessdate=5 August 2018 |website=Amarmp}}</ref> in marketing from Southern University, Bangladesh and an MBA in finance from the International Business School of Scandinavia, respectively.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}
==Career== Islam was elected from Comilla-9 ( Laksam-Monohorgonj ) constituency as a member of parliament in 1996, 2008, 2014, 2018, and most recently in 2024.<ref>{{cite news |date=8 January 2024 |title=LGRD minister Tajul Islam wins in Cumilla-9 |url=https://www.observerbd.com/news.php?id=454419 |accessdate=8 January 2024 |work=Daily Observer |language=en}}</ref> After the 2024 general election, the Hon'ble Prime Minister appointed him as the Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 February 2024 |title=ADB delegation meets LGRD minister |url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/225340/adb-delegation-meets-lgrd-minister |access-date=13 February 2024 |work=New Age |language=en}}</ref> for a second consecutive term.
As a long-serving parliamentarian, Islam worked with the standing committee of Home, Planning, and Finance Ministry as a member and worked as Chairman of standing committee of Power and Energy from 2014 to 2018.<ref>{{cite news |title=Industrial sector's development hindered by gas crisis: JS body chief |url=http://www.daily-sun.com/printversion/details/65556/Industrial-sector%E2%80%99s-development-hindered-by-gas-crisis:-JS-body-chief |accessdate=5 August 2018 |work=The Daily Sun |language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== He is married to Fauzia Islam. The couple had 2 daughters and 2 sons.
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