AKM Maidul Islam

AKM Maidul Islam (born 1940 or 1943; died 2018) was a Bangladeshi politician from Ulipur who served six terms in the Bangladesh Parliament between 1979 and 2018. First elected as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) member, he later defected to the Jatiya Party (JP), briefly returned to the BNP, and finally rejoined the JP. Islam held ministerial positions under presidents Ziaur Rahman, Abdus Sattar, and Hussain Muhammad Ershad at various times between 1979 and 1990.

Early life and education AKM Maidul Islam was born in Assam, British India. Sources vary as to whether he was born on 29 May 1940 or 1 May 1943. His father was Mohammad Abul Quasem.

Islam attended Ulipur Maharani Swarnamoyi School and College and matriculated from Matlab High School in Comilla in 1959. He completed his Intermediate of Arts from Rajshahi Government College in 1961, and earned a master's degree in political science from the University of Karachi in 1966.

He was elected to parliament from Rangpur-16 in 1979 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) candidate. He was appointed Minister of Posts, Telegraph, and Telephones in the Zia government in April 1979. In the Sattar government, he was retained in that position until February 1982. He was Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism from January 1982 to March 1982.

On 6 April 1985, he and three other BNP ministers defected to the Jaitya Party of President Hussain Muhammad Ershad. He was elected to parliament from Kurigram-3 in 1986 and 1988 as a candidate of the Jatiya Party (Ershad). In the Ershad government, he was Minister of Land Administration and Land Reforms from November 1985 to April 1986; Minister of Ports, Shipping, and Water Transport from July 1986 to March 1987; the minister of land again from March 1987 to September 1987; the minister of shipping again from September 1987 to November 1987; Minister of Jute and Textiles from September 1988 to September 1989; and Minister of Forests and Environment from September 1988 to January 1990.

After the 1990 Bangladesh mass uprising led to the fall of Ershad, Islam unsuccessfully stood for re-election in 1991 as an independent. He then rejoined the BNP and was elected to parliament from Kurigram-3 in February 1996. Unable to hold his seat in June 1996,

Death Selina Begum, his wife, predeceased him on 14 February 2016. They had two daughters and a son. Islam died on 11 May 2018 in United Hospital Limited, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is buried at Banani graveyard in Dhaka.