{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician (1952–2019)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Sadeque Hossain Khoka | native_name = সাদেক হোসেন খোকা | office = 7th [[Dhaka City Corporation#List of officeholders|Mayor of Dhaka]] | image = | predecessor = [[Mohammad Hanif (mayor)|Mohammad Hanif]] | successor = ''Position abolished'' | term_start = 25 April 2002 | term_end = 29 November 2011 | office1 = [[Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (Bangladesh)|Minister of Fisheries and Livestock]] | predecessor1 = [[A. S. M. Abdur Rab]] | successor1 = [[Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan]] | term_start1 = 10 October 2001 | term_end1 = 22 May 2003<ref>{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZtNVD7uN1gFaDuQLWTOFaLe3ouR0ODOSmgA6jIuRfVw/|title=Cabinet of Bangladesh 2001|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref> | prime_minister1 = [[Khaleda Zia]] | office2 = [[Minister of Youth and Sports (Bangladesh)|Minister of State for Youth and Sports]] | prime_minister2 = [[Khaleda Zia]] | term_start2 = 17 May 1991 | term_end2 = 19 March 1996 | predecessor2 = [[Mirza Abbas]] | successor2 = [[Obaidul Quader]] | office3 = [[Member of Parliament (Bangladesh)|Member of Parliament]] | constituency3 = [[Dhaka-7]] | term_start3 = 20 March 1991 | term_end3 = 29 October 2006 | predecessor3 = [[Jahangir Mohammad Adel]] | successor3 = [[Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-4th-parliament-members-bangla|title=List of 4th Parliament Members|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="parliament.gov.bd">{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-7th-parliament-members-bangla|title=List of 7th Parliament Members|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-5th-parliament-members-bangla|title=List of 5th Parliament Members|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bdaffairs.com/members-of-8th-parliament-of-bangladesh/|title=Member's of 8th Parliament of Bangladesh |website=bdaffairs.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112211907/http://bdaffairs.com/members-of-8th-parliament-of-bangladesh/|archive-date=12 January 2019|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-9th-parliament-members-bangla|title=List of 9th Parliament Members|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref> | birth_date = {{birth date|1952|05|12|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Dacca]], [[East Bengal]], [[Dominion of Pakistan|Pakistan]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|11|04|1952|05|12|df=y}} | death_place = [[New York City]], [[United States]] | party = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] | alma_mater = [[University of Dhaka]] | education = Psychologist | spouse = Ismat Ara | children = {{hlist|[[Ishraque Hossain|Ishraque]]|Ishfaque|Sarika}} <!--Mukti Bahini service--> | service_years = 1971 | branch = [[File:Flag of the Mukti Bahini-DeFacto.svg|25px]] [[Mukti Bahini]] | battles = [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] }} '''Sadeque Hossain Khoka''' (12 May 1952 – 4 November 2019) was a Bangladeshi politician.<ref name="munshi">{{cite web|url=http://munshigonj.com/Famous/zLeaders/Khoka.htm|title=Khoka on Munshigonj.com|publisher=munshigonj.com|access-date=24 August 2010|archive-date=26 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170826004912/http://www.munshigonj.com/Famous/zLeaders/Khoka.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> He served as the 7th mayor of [[Dhaka City Corporation|Dhaka]] during 2002 to 2011. He was the vice chairman of the [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] and was President of undivided [[Dhaka|Dhaka city]] BNP for longest period of the organisation's existence.<ref name=":14">{{cite news|url=http://www.weeklyholiday.net/homepage/pages/UserHome.aspx?ID=3&date=05/10/2013#Tid=4870|title=Amnesty wants neutral probe into Motijheel crackdown|date=10 May 2013|work=Weekly Holiday|issue=1|access-date=17 January 2017}}</ref>
==Early life and career== Khoka attended [[Dhaka University]] and completed M.A. in psychology. In 1971 at the age of 19 he fought in the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]]. After independence, he worked in organizing soccer, rising to the positions of General Secretary of the Dhaka Metropolitan Football Association and Joint General Secretary of the [[Bangladesh Football Federation]]. Khoka was the key person of the football club [[Brothers Union]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/khoka-passes-away-us-1823230|title=Khoka passes away in US|language=en|date=November 5, 2019|access-date=20 January 2025|website=The Daily Star|archive-date=20 January 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250120122206/https://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/news/khoka-passes-away-us-1823230|url-status=live}}</ref>
Khoka was first elected to the [[Jatiyo Sangshad]] (national legislature) in 1991. In the same year he was made State Minister of Youth and Sports. Khoka also won from his constituency in elections in 1996 and 2001. After [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]'s victory in 2001, Khoka was made Cabinet Minister of Fisheries and Livestock. Being in the office, he fought the [[Dhaka City Corporation]] election for mayorship and won. He took office as the Mayor of Dhaka on 25 April 2002. He served as both Minister and Mayor till 2004 when he resigned from the ministry.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}
Khoka resigned from the mayoral duties of Dhaka on 29 November 2011, when the government passed a bill in parliament to split DCC (Dhaka City Corporation) into two parts and renamed them DCC North and DCC South.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}
In 2013, Khoka compared the [[2013 Shapla Square protests|crackdown on Hefazat protestors]] to the [[Operation Searchlight|Pakistani crackdown on 25 March]] and [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre|Jalianwala Bagh massacres]].<ref name=":12">{{cite news|url=http://www.weeklyholiday.net/homepage/pages/UserHome.aspx?ID=2&date=05/10/2013|title=Motijheel massacre spawns unintended consequences|date=10 May 2013|work=Weekly Holiday|issue=1|access-date=17 January 2017}}</ref> In response, Detective Branch police raided the houses of Sadeque Hossain Khoka and [[Bangladesh Jatiya Party – BJP|Bangladesh Jatiya Party]] chairman [[Andaleeve Rahman|Andaleeve Rahman Partha]].<ref name=":14" />
==Family== Khoka was married to Ismat Ara and had two sons and a daughter. His eldest son [[Ishraque Hossain]] is a politician and [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] candidate in 2018 Mayoral election in Dhaka. Another son Ishfaque Hossain is now a Bachelor level student from [[University of Hertfordshire]]. His daughter Sarika Sadeque is married to Ahmed Iftekhar, Son of [[Ahmad Nazir]], Ex Parliament Member. Both of them pursued MBA degree from [[Durham University]].{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}
== Death == Khoka died from cancer on 4 November 2019 in New York.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/sadeque-hossain-khoka-no-more-1823020|title=Sadeque Hossain Khoka passes away|date=4 November 2019|work=The Daily Star|language=en|access-date=2019-11-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.jagonews24.com/politics/news/537337|script-title=bn:সাদেক হোসেন খোকা আর নেই|work=Jago News 24|language=bn|access-date=2019-11-04}}</ref>
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