Profile - Firoze Noon

Firoze Noon

General Information

Founder Principal of BNP's Political Training Center

Politician

Full Name: A K A Firoze Noon

Affiliation: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)

Current Position: Deceased

Date of Birth: January 04, 1946

Date of Death: December 23, 2006

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Home District: Munshiganj

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Profile:

A K A Firoze Noon (4 January 1946 – 23 December 2006) was a Bangladeshi politician who was one of the founding members of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). He was the founder principal of BNP's political training center and former political and economic research secretary of BNP. He served as the political adviser of the then Prime Minister of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia during 1991–1996.

Noon was born in Samspur, Sreenagar in the then Bengal Presidency. His father Mozammel Hossain, popularly known as Suba Miah was for sometimes President of the Kolapara Union of Bikrampur. His mother Sufula Begum (Chappa) was the granddaughter of Khan Bahadur Khabirullah.

Noon studied in Shomspur School and St. Joseph High School, Khulna. He completed his matriculation in 1963 from Model High School in Khulna. He graduated from B L College of Khulna in arts in 1967.

Around this time in the college the entire East Pakistan was seized by a terrible commotion over the highly controversial Hamoodur Rahman Education Commission Report. The Student Community as a whole rose in protest and demanded to scrap of the report which would have gone against the interest of the students if implemented. Noon was the Convenor of the Committee of the college students and was eventually involved in its leadership. This was the time he joined the Students’ League (Chatro League). Being in the front ranking leader of the students he earned the wrath of the government of East Pakistan and was put behind the bars for some time in 1963. Noon participated in the movements of the students of East Pakistan including the 6-point program of Awami League and 11-point program of the students – the main opposition political party student’s movement respectively at that time.

Noon rose to the position of vice-president of the erstwhile East Pakistan Student League (Chatro League). The mass uprising in 1969 was about to precipitate – at least the distant signal was beckoning. The student community in Khulna, like in other places of the province, started the process of effacing the names of the parochial Pakistani leaders after whom the public structures, roads, and thoroughfares had been known. In the first place, the Jinnah Park in Khulna was renamed Shahid Hadis Park after a martyr in the political movements. Noon proposed the change in public and the renaming was ceremonially performed. It was again he and Professor Rashid who jointly laid the first brick to build a Shahid Minar in Khulna town.

In 1968, Noon obtained post-graduation degree in Bangla and took admission in LLB class. The year ahead in 1969 kept him engaged full-time with the political movement and 6-point/11-point programs. His responsibility as the Vice-President of the Students League and a Central Leader was to mobilize the support of the students as well as of the general members of the public.

The years between 1970 and 1976 kept Noon busy with his vocational chores mostly and in the backyard he allowed his political thinking and attachment take to a newer trend. In 1977 he joined hands with General Ziaur Rahman in his bid to float a new political party – Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). After the formation of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, President Ziaul Rahman took initiative for formation of political institutes and sponsored workshops for the youth to get active political lessons on Bangladeshi nationalism. Noon assumed the role of the Principal, Political Training Centre and in the process about 7,000 political activists including the Member of Parliament and ministers were imparted training.

Noon got himself involved in a number of areas related to the party progression. As the founder-member of BNP in Zia's time, he was Secretary of Political & Economic Research Centre. He traveled many countries (i.e. China, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Yugoslavia etc.) with President Ziaur Rahman as the member of high-level delegation team and also as a distinguished member, Envoy's Pool of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh.

In the 1991, national election Noon acted as the Chief Election Coordinator of BNP and his personal contribution to BNP Election Manifests of 1991 was indeed immensely rewarding.

Noon was the author of five books on the life and works of President Ziaur Rahman. Publications include: