Mofiqul Hasan Tripti


Mofiqul Hasan Tripti is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member from Jessore-1 constituency in 1996.

Career

Tripti was the office secretary of Central Committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was elected to parliament on 15 February 1996 from Jessore-1 as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was expelled from the party after supporting reforms in the party during the caretaker government tenure from 2007–2008. He was arrested in Jessore Airport on 23 May 2011 after carrying a loaded gun into the airport. The Bangladesh Members of Parliament Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito, Mostafa Faruk Mohammad, and Narayon Chandra Chanda were present in the airport.
On 9 August 2018, Tripti was arrested over the 2006 murder of professor Aftab Ahmed, a vice-Chancellor of National University and a senior professor of political science at the University of Dhaka. On 23 September 2006, three unidentified youths shot Ahmed entering his Fuller Road residence in the university campus.