Syed Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari

Syed Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari
সৈয়দ নজিবুল বশর মাইজভাণ্ডারী
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament for Chittagong-2
In office 5 January 2014 – 6 January 2024
Preceded by	Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury
Succeeded by	Khadizatul Anwar
Member of Parliament for Chittagong-4
In office 1991–1996
Preceded by	Mazharul Haq Shah Chowdhury
Succeeded by	Rafiqul Anwar
Chairman of Bangladesh Tarikat Federation
Incumbent
Assumed office 2005
Personal details
Born	(1959-12-02) December 2, 1959 Chittagong, East Pakistan
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Political party	Bangladesh Tarikat Federation
Other political affiliations	Awami League (until 1996) Bangladesh Nationalist Party (1996–2005)
Residence	Chittagong

Syed Najibul Bashar Maizbhandari (Bengali: সৈয়দ নজিবুল বশর মাইজভাণ্ডারী) is the chairman of Bangladesh Tarikat Federation and former Member of Parliament of the Chittagong-2 constituency.

Early life

Maizbhandari was born on 2 December 1959, to a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds belonging to the Maizbhandaria tariqah in Chittagong District, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). He completed his education up until he gained his Higher Secondary School Certificate.

Career

During the 1991 Bangladeshi general elections, Maizbhandari successfully won a seat in the Chittagong-4 constituency as an Awami League candidate. However, he later became affiliated with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He represented them as a candidate for the same constituency in the 2001 Bangladeshi general election, but did not win a seat.

He left the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 2005 because the party had formed an alliance with the Jamaat-e-Islami, which Maizbhandari accuses of supporting terrorists who attack dargahs (Sufi shrines); Maizbhandari is the president of the Bangladesh Dargah Mazar Federation, an association of shrines. In the same year, he founded the Bangladesh Tarikat Federation political party which had experienced its first elections in 2008 with 45 candidates but no seats won in parliament.

On 5 January 2014, Maizbhandari won a seat in the Chittagong-2 representing his party and managed to keep this seat again in the 2018 Bangladeshi general election. He is the Chairman of Bangladesh Tarikat Federation, ailed of the Awami League.