Sadeque Hossain Khoka
| Former Minister and Mayor of DCC |
| Politician |
Full Name: Sadeque Hossain Khoka
Affiliation: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)
Current Position: Deceased
Date of Birth: May 12, 1952
Date of Death:November 4, 2019
Place of Birth: Bangladesh
Home District: Munshiganj
Constituency: 180, Dhaka-7
Term: Fourth (5th-1991, 6th-1996 February, 7th-1996, 8th-2001)
Nationality: Bangladeshi
Profile:
Sadeque Hossain Khoka(12 May 1952 – 4 November 2019) was a Bangladeshi politician, former minister and former mayor of Dhaka City Corporation. He is also Vice Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). He served as the 2nd mayor of Dhaka City Corporation during 2002 to 2011. He was the vice chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and was President of undivided Dhaka city BNP for longest period of the organisation's existence.
Khoka was born in a Muslim family in Dhaka. His father was an engineer and a social worker. Khoka attended Dhaka University and completed M.A. in psychology. In 1971 at the age of 19 Khoka fought in the Bangladesh Liberation War. After independence, Khoka worked in organizing football, ultimately rising to the positions of General Secretary of the Dhaka Metropolitan Football Association and Joint General Secretary of the Bangladesh Football Federation. Khoka is the key person of the football club Brothers Union.
Khoka was first elected to the Jatiyo Sangshad in 1991. In the same year he was made State Minister of Youth and Sports. Khoka also has won from his constituency in elections in 1996 and 2001. After Bangladesh Nationalist Party's utmost victory in 2001, Khoka was made Cabinet Minister of Fisheries and Livestock. Being in the office, he fought the Dhaka City Corporation election for mayorship and won. He took office as the Mayor of Dhaka on April 25, 2002. He served as both Minister and Mayor till 2004 when he resigned from the ministry. Khoka resigned from the mayoral duties of Dhaka on November 29, 2011, when the government passed a bill in parliament to split Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) into two parts and renamed them DCC North and DCC South.
Sadeq Hossain Khoka died on November 4, 2019 at the Sloan Catering Cancer Center in Manhattan, New York, USA. He was buried in Jurain Cemetery on 7 November.
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