Khidirnazar Allakulov

Khidirnazar Allakulov (Uzbek Latin: Xidirnazar Olloqulov, Uzbek Cyrillic: Хидирназар Оллоқулов; born 1956) is an Uzbek scientist-economist, professor, and dissident. He was rector of Termez State University from May 2002 to June 2004. In early June 2020, he announced the beginning of the process of creating the Truth and Development Social Democratic Party (TDSDP) in Uzbekistan and his desire to run as a presidential candidate in the next presidential elections in 2021.

Biography Allakulov was born in 1956 in the Shurchinsky district of the Surkhandarya, Uzbekistan. In 1976-1977, he served in the ranks of the Soviet army on the territory of Czechoslovakia. Graduated from the Tashkent Institute of National Economy (now the Tashkent State Economic University). After graduation, he stayed to work at this institute in various positions, including a teacher. After that, he worked in various positions, including as a teacher, head of the department and vice-rector at the Tashkent Financial Institute. Graduated from postgraduate and doctoral studies. In 1997, he studied at the Institute for Economic Development of the World Bank in the United States.

Allakulov is married. He has four children and seven grandchildren. In July 2019, Allakulov wrote an open objection letter to Mirziyoyev, explaining in detail the true reasons for his dismissal, subsequent threats and court cases.

Activity The first attempt at the process of creating a real people's political party in Uzbekistan On 4 June 2020, another video interview of Allakulov to the editor-in-chief of the Adabiyot newspaper Bakhtiyor Karim was posted online, in which Allakulov announced the beginning of the process of creating a new Truth and Progress Social Democratic Party (HTSDP) in Uzbekistan, focused on secularism and the principles of social democracy. On the same day, Allakulov, in an interview with the Uzbek service of Radio Free Europe, confirmed the start of the process of creating the party, reiterating that if there is support from the population, then there will be a party. When asked by a journalist whether he wants to participate in the upcoming presidential elections in 2021, Allakulov answered in the affirmative if he is elected leader of the new party and if the leadership of the new party nominates him in the elections. The news of the intentions of Allakulov to create a new party and subsequently participate in the upcoming presidential elections was consecrated by the Uzbek service of the BBC World Service. This news was also reacted by the Uzbek service of the Voice of America, which found out that the initiative group of the founders of the party included a number of well-known scientists and teachers in Uzbekistan with academic degrees and titles, former politicians, journalists, public figures and cultural figures. At the same time, state and private media operating within Uzbekistan did not sanctify this news in any way. The day after Allakulov's YouTube video interview was announced to Bakhtiyor Karim, the educational YouTube channel Xurshid Davron Kutubxonasi (Xurshid Davron's Library), which had 38,900 subscribers and a total number of views exceeding one million views, on which this interview was uploaded, was banned due to the fact that numerous complaints have been filed against the channel. Despite the channel's ban, the videos were uploaded on their YouTube and Facebook pages by many people, including famous personalities, since at the end of this interview, the interviewer Bakhtiyor Karim stated that he provides this video interview under an open license, and asked everyone, especially journalists to re-upload it and distribute it in all social networks and websites.

On 5 May 2021, it was reported that Allakulov was fined for alleged slander in the amount of 4,900,000 so'm.

In July 2021, Allakulov's residence in Tashkent was visited by the employees of the Bureau of Compulsory Enforcement, which confiscated several Allakulov's household items in which Allakulov himself described the incident as "robbery with the participation of representatives of the authorities", accusing the Uzbek government in forcing his neighbours to write false stating that the event was inflirtrated to publicly humiliate and in attempt to force end his political career.

In a Current Time TV interview following the presidential elections, Allakulov announced that he would attempt in creating a new opposition party called Justice, Progress and Unity.