GM Quader


Ghulam Muhammed Quader is a Bangladeshi politician and the current chairperson of Jatiya Party. He is the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member from the Lalmonirhat-3 constituency. He served as the Minister of Commerce and Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism from 2009 to 2014.

Education and career

Quader completed his SSC and HSC from Rangpur Zilla School and Rangpur Carmichael College. He obtained his BSc in mechanical engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1969.
Quader, presidium member of Jatiya Party, held different important posts in several important ministries and organizations including Ministry of Establishment, Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, Jamuna Oil Company and Bangladesh Tobacco Company. He worked in the Ministry of Agriculture in Iraq as a mechanical engineer from 1976 to 1977.
Quader was elected lawmaker with Jatiya Party ticket in the seventh parliamentary election and served as member of parliamentary standing committee on defence ministry. He was also elected as lawmaker in eighth parliamentary election and served as a member of standing committee on agriculture ministry.
From 2016, he joined his elder brother, Hussain Muhammad Ershad group, who is the founder and chairman of Jatiya Party had declared to make him the co-chairman of the party although his wife Rowshan Ershad, who is now leader of the opposition at the parliament, and her MPs are against his decision.

Family

Quader's elder brother, Hussain Muhammad Ershad, was the founding president of Jatiya Party and the former President of Bangladesh. His other brother, Mozammel Hossain Lalu, was a politician and a banker.