Sadeque Hossain Khoka

Sadeque Hossain Khoka (12 May 1952 – 4 November 2019) was a Bangladeshi politician. He served as the 7th mayor of Dhaka from 2002 to 2011. He was the vice chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and was president of the undivided Dhaka city BNP for the longest period of the organisation's existence.

Early life and career Khoka attended Dhaka University and completed an 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.

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 the 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.

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.

In 2013, Khoka compared the crackdown on Hefazat protestors to the Pakistani crackdown on 25 March and Jalianwala Bagh massacres. In response, Detective Branch police raided the houses of Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Bangladesh Jatiya Party chairman Andaleeve Rahman Partha.