{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} '''Mohammad Mahbubuzzaman''' was a Bangladeshi bureaucrat, Cabinet Secretary, and government minister.
== Early life == Mahbubuzzaman was born on 25 November 1929 in Rajshahi, Rajshahi District, East Bengal, British India.<ref name="ds4Mar2021">{{Cite web |last=Zaman |first=Md Ahsan-uz |date=2021-03-04 |title=An illustrious civil servant and social worker |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/news/illustrious-civil-servant-and-social-worker-2054381 |access-date=2022-10-19 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> He graduated from Rajshahi Loknath High School.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" /> He studied at Tejgaon Agriculture College and worked as the superintendent of Dhaka Farms.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" />
==Career== In 1954, Mahbubuzzaman joined the Pakistan Civil Service.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" /> He served as the sub-divisional officer of Nilphamari District.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" /> He served as the deputy commissioner of Rangpur District.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" /> He has served as the registrar of the Department of Cooperatives.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" />
Mahbubuzzaman is a former chairman of the Bangladesh Tea Board.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" /> He was the second person to become secretary at the Ministry of Public Administration.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" /> He went on to become secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" /> On 24 November 1986, he retired from the civil service.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" />
Following the death of the member of parliament of Naogaon-3, Mohammad Baitullah, Mahbubuzzaman contested the following by-election and was elected to parliament.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" />
Mahbubuzzaman was the cabinet secretary of during the government of General Hussain Mohammad Ershad.<ref name="bdn4Mar2008" /> He joined the cabinet of Ershad after retiring from government service, as a minister.<ref name="bdn4Mar2008">{{cite news |title=Former minister Mahbubuzzaman dies at 82 |url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/former-minister-mahbubuzzaman-dies-at-82 |work=bdnews24.com |date=4 March 2008 |access-date=18 January 2019}}</ref> He served as the Minister of Agriculture from 1988 to 1990.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paxton |first1=J. |title=The Statesman's Year-Book 1988-89 |date=2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9780230271173 |page=185 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLi8DQAAQBAJ&q=Mahbubuzzaman&pg=PA185 |accessdate=18 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
In the 1990s, Mahbubuzzaman was the first chairman of Social Marketing Company and chairman of Aziz and Company.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" /> He was a member of the Retired Government Employees Welfare Association and Bangladesh Medical Studies and Research Institute.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" />
==Personal life== Mahbubuzzaman has two sons. His eldest son, Colonel Mohammad Anisuzzaman, was the Bangladesh Rifles Mymensingh Sector Commander and his youngest son, Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman, lives in the United States is a vice president of Bank of America in New York City.<ref name="sdt">{{cite news |title=Mahbubuzzaman passes away |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-26099 |work=The Daily Star |date=4 March 2008 |language=en |access-date=18 January 2019}}</ref> Colonel Mohammad Anisuzzaman was killed in the 2009 Bangladesh Rifles Mutiny.<ref>{{cite news |title=DDG among 17 officers confirmed dead |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/ddg-among-17-officers-confirmed-dead |work=bdnews24.com |date=26 February 2009 |access-date=18 January 2019}}</ref>
==Death== Mahbubuzzaman died on 3 March 2008.<ref name="sdt" /> He was buried in Banani military graveyard.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" /> In 2009, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina awarded him Krishibid award posthumously.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" /> A neighborhood of his village was named after him and Sapahar Zaman Nagar Girls High School was founded after his name.<ref name="ds4Mar2021" />
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