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|name=Rashed Khan Menon
|name=Rashed Khan Menon
|office=Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism
|office=[[Ministry of Social Welfare (Bangladesh)|Minister of Social Welfare of Bangladesh]]
|term_start=2014
|term_start=3 January 2018
|predecessor=[[Nuruzzaman Ahmed]]
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|office1=[[Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism|Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism]]
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|relatives={{unbulleted list|[[Sadek Khan]] (brother)|[[A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan]] (brother)| [[Selima Rahman]] (sister)|[[Abu Zafar Obaidullah]] (brother)}}
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'''Rashed Khan Menon''' (born 18 May 1943)<ref name="me">{{cite news |title=Rashed Khan Menon steps into 65 |url=http://www.newagebd.com/2008/may/18/met.html |newspaper=New Age |location=Dhaka}}{{dead link|date=August 2016}}</ref> is a Bangladeshi politician. He is the chairman of [[Workers Party of Bangladesh]] and a member of [[Jatiyo Sangsad]], the parliament of Bangladesh.<ref>http://www.thebangladeshtoday.com/archive/November%2009/5-11-2009.htm</ref> Menon is the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Education.<ref>{{cite news |title=Menon for edn system without discrimination |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=96535 |newspaper=The Daily Star |agency=BSS |date=11 July 2009}}</ref> Rashed Khan Menon also currently serves as the [[Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism|Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Hawkers greet Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon |url=http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=382777&date=2014-01-13 |newspaper=Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha |date=13 January 2014}}</ref>
'''Rashed Khan Menon''' (born 18 May 1943)<ref name="me">{{cite news |title=Rashed Khan Menon steps into 65 |url=http://www.newagebd.com/2008/may/18/met.html |newspaper=New Age |location=Dhaka}}{{dead link|date=August 2016}}</ref> is a Bangladeshi politician. He is the chairman of [[Workers Party of Bangladesh]] and a member of [[Jatiyo Sangsad]], the parliament of Bangladesh.<ref>http://www.thebangladeshtoday.com/archive/November%2009/5-11-2009.htm</ref> Menon is the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Education.<ref>{{cite news |title=Menon for edn system without discrimination |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=96535 |newspaper=The Daily Star |agency=BSS |date=11 July 2009}}</ref> Menon has been serving as the [[Ministry of Social Welfare (Bangladesh)|Minister of Social Welfare of Bangladesh]] since January 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/council-ministers-reshuffle-comes-surprises-1514674|title=Council of Ministers: Surprises in reshuffle|date=2018-01-04|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-01-03|language=en}}</ref> Earlier he was the [[Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism|Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Hawkers greet Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon |url=http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=382777&date=2014-01-13 |newspaper=Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha |date=13 January 2014}}</ref>


==Early life==
==Early life==

Revision as of 22:04, 3 January 2018

Rashed Khan Menon
রাশেদ খান মেনন
Menon in 2005
Minister of Social Welfare of Bangladesh
Assumed office
3 January 2018
Preceded byNuruzzaman Ahmed
Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism
In office
2014 – 3 January 2018
Succeeded byA.K.M. Shahjahan Kamal[1]
Personal details
Born (1943-05-18) 18 May 1943 (age 81)
Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India
NationalityBangladeshi
SpouseLutfunnesa Khan Beauty
Parent
Relatives
Alma materUniversity of Dhaka
Occupationpolitician

Rashed Khan Menon (born 18 May 1943)[2] is a Bangladeshi politician. He is the chairman of Workers Party of Bangladesh and a member of Jatiyo Sangsad, the parliament of Bangladesh.[3] Menon is the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Education.[4] Menon has been serving as the Minister of Social Welfare of Bangladesh since January 2018.[5] Earlier he was the Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism.[6]

Early life

Menon was born in Faridpur. Menon studied at Dhaka Collegiate School, finish in 1958. In 1960, he passed intermediate in arts group from Dhaka College. He graduated from Dhaka University in 1963 with a degree in economics. In 1964, he received his master's degree.[2]

In the late 1960s, Menon was president of the East Pakistan Students Union faction linked to the National Awami Party of Maulana Bhasani. However, Menon differed with Maulana Bhasani when the latter accepted participation in elections in January 1970. Menon's East Pakistan Student Union launched a campaign against elections, stating that they would be merely a facade of democracy, that fair elections could not be held under martial law and that the situation was ripe for revolution.[7] Menon built a revolutionary Maoist organisation along with Kazi Zafar Ahmed. The Menon-Zafar group built a base in Khulna (in Begerhat), amongst workers near Dacca and had a student group named Revolutionary Students Union.[8]

Menon contested the 1973 Bangladeshi parliamentary election as a NAP (Bhasani) candidate. He did not win any seat, and afterward he complained that the Awami League government had used unfair methods to win the election.[9]

Career

Menon at an opposition rally in Dhaka, 2005

Menon was elected to parliament in 1979. In 1990, he played a leading role in the mass struggle that toppled the Hossain Mohammad Ershad regime. In 1991, he was again elected to parliament.[2] In 1991, Menon, as a Workers Party of Bangladesh parliamentarian, submitted four demands for constitutional amendments in the parliament. These demands and others were submitted to a 15-member constitutional review committee, in which Menon was included. After 29 meetings, the committee submitted a unanimous report to the parliament.[10]

On August 17, 1992 Menon survived a violent near-fatal attack. Unidentified assailants opened fire on the Workers Party office, injuring Menon.[11]

Menon in 2017

Family

Menon's father, Abdul Jabbar Khan, hailed from Khudrakathi village, in Babuganj Upazila, Barisal.[2] Menon is closely related to several prominent Bangladeshi personalities. His father was the speaker of the Pakistani National Assembly. His siblings include journalist and columnist Sadek Khan, architect Sultan M. Khan, Alan Khan, a photographer in Sydney, poet Abu Zafar Obaidullah, former minister Selima Rahman, journalist and ambassador to Burma A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan and the publisher of New Age Shahidullah Khan Badal.[12]

Menon is married to Lutfunnesa Khan Beauty.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Menon being replaced by Kamal at cabinet". The Daily Star. 2018-01-03. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Rashed Khan Menon steps into 65". New Age. Dhaka.[dead link]
  3. ^ http://www.thebangladeshtoday.com/archive/November%2009/5-11-2009.htm
  4. ^ "Menon for edn system without discrimination". The Daily Star. BSS. 11 July 2009.
  5. ^ "Council of Ministers: Surprises in reshuffle". The Daily Star. 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
  6. ^ "Hawkers greet Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon". Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. 13 January 2014.
  7. ^ Singh, Nagendra Kr. (2003). Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh (Set of 30 Vols.). Anmol Publications Pvt. Limited. pp. 19, 22, 42, 44, 168. ISBN 978-81-261-1390-3.
  8. ^ Singh, Nagendra Kr. (2003). Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh (Set of 30 Vols.). Anmol Publications Pvt. Limited. pp. 48–49. ISBN 978-81-261-1390-3.
  9. ^ Jahan, Rounaq (February 1974). "Bangladesh in 1973: Management of Factional Politics". Asian Survey. 14 (2). University of California Press: 125–135. doi:10.2307/2643085. JSTOR 2643085.
  10. ^ Singh, Nagendra Kr. (2003). Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh (Set of 30 Vols.). Anmol Publications Pvt. Limited. p. 52. ISBN 978-81-261-1390-3.
  11. ^ http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=3631
  12. ^ Halim, Anwar Parvez (19 March 2009). "All in the family". Probe News Magazine. Archived from the original on 4 April 2010.
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