Mizanur Rahman Sinha, former state minister of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and former Treasurer of the BNP Central Committee, has died. He was serving as the managing director of ACME Group.
He passed away while undergoing treatment at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital in Singapore around 2am on Friday night. He was 83.
His daughter, Tasnim Sinha, deputy managing director of ACME Group, confirmed his death on social media platform Facebook.
In his long political career, Mizanur Rahman Sinha also served as the convener of Munshiganj District unit of BNP.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Member of Parliament for Munshiganj-2 Abdus Salam Azad, Member of Parliament for Munshiganj-3 Md Kamruzzaman Ratan, former District BNP Member Secretary Md Mohiuddin, along with BNP leaders, activists, and people from various walks of life, expressed their condolences at the death of the former state minister.
In 2020, during the tenure of the Awami League government, he announced his retirement from politics. After the fall of the AL government, he received BNP’s nomination to contest the 13th parliamentary election from Munshiganj-2 (Lohajang-Tongibari) constituency.
Later, when he fell ill, BNP Joint Secretary General Abdul Salam Azad was nominated by the party to contest from that constituency in his place.
Mizanur was born on 18 August 1943, in Dahuri village of Kalma Union, Lohajang upazila, Munshiganj. His ancestral home, “Sinha House,” has long been open to the public as a place of interest.
His father was Hamidur Rahman Sinha and his mother was Nurjahan Sinha. Hamidur was one of the pioneers of pharmaceutical business in Bangladesh and founder of the industrial conglomerate ACME Group.
Mizanur spent his childhood in Kolkata. Later, he completed his higher secondary education at Government Tolaram College in Narayanganj and earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Dhaka.
In 1964, he began his professional career with a job in a bank. After his father’s death in 1975, he joined ACME Group. Since 1983, he had been serving as the managing director of the group.
He became involved in politics during his student life. While studying at Government Tolaram College, he was elected General Secretary in the student union election as a candidate of the Student Union. In 1990, he joined the BNP. Later, he served as Treasurer of the party’s Central Committee until 22 January 2020.
He was elected lawmaker from Munshiganj-2 constituency as a BNP candidate in the National Parliamentary Election of 1996 and 2001.
