Full Name: Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu

Affiliation: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)

Current Position: Organizing Secretary

Date of Birth: September 07, 1962

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Home District: Natore

Constituency: 58, Natore-2

Term: Third (6th-1996-15 February, 7th-1996-12 June, 8th-2001)

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Profile:

Ruhul Quddus Talukder Dulu (born 07 September 1962) is a Bangladeshi politician, lawyer, former deputy minister and former Member of Parliament represented Natore-2 constituency. Now he is an Organizing Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

Dulu was born in Natore sadar upazila of Natore district. He was a regular practitioner lawyer. Along with his legal career, he was also active in politics. In 1977, he joined the politics of the BNP's student organization Chhatra Dal.

Dulu was elected a Member of Parliament for the first time on 15 February 1996 of the 6th Parliament Election for Natore-2 constituency as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Natore-2 from 12 June 1996 election. He had received 58,500 votes while his nearest rival, Ahad Ali Sarker of Awami League, had received 50,455 votes. He served in the Parliamentery Standing Committee on Communications Ministry.

Dulu was re-elected to parliament from Natore-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. He had received 109,196 votes while his nearest rival, Md. Hanif Ali Sheikh of Awami League, had received 84,498 votes.

In 2018 Detective Branch (DB) of Police has arrested BNP leader Ruhul Quddus Talukdar Dulu from his Gulshan residence in Dhaka. A Dhaka court sent former deputy minister Dulu into "safe custody" in jail. In 2020 Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has frozen Tk 7.36 crore in different bank accounts of Dulu and his wife Sabina Yasmin.

Election Comissioner challenged High Court order on Dulu’s candidacy for the national election in 2018.  Dulu was sued in February 2007 on allegations of misappropriation of government corrugated iron sheets. A government commission formed to investigate the 2001 Bangladesh post-election violence found evidence of Dulu's in the violence against minorities and Awami League activists. It submitted its report in 2011. In 2012, Dulu, along with Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Hannan Shah and Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir were jailed for political riots. They were later released.

The Bangladesh High Court cleared the way for this BNP leader Dulu to contest in the election 2018. It directed the Bangladesh Election Commission to accept his nominations and stayed the previous rejection order of the returning officers. He is the Organising Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was arrested on 18 December 2018 on a double murder case from 1 January 2015. Joint Secretary General of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, condemned his arrest and accused the government of interfering with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party participation in the general election on 30 December 2018. His bail application was rejected on 12 February 2019. Dulu received bail on a sabotage case on 2 September 2019.

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