Who is Shahabuddin Chuppu?

The ruling Awami League has nominated Mohammed Shahabuddin Chuppu who is all set to become the 22nd president of Bangladesh.

General Secretary Obaidul Quader told media that, AL Parliamentary Party has nominated Shahabuddin Chuppu, a former commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission, a retired district and sessions judge, and a freedom fighter, for the president role.

Awami League holds majority in parliament, and that makes Shahabuddin Chuppu the 22nd president of the country.

Shahabuddin was born in Pabna in 1949 and was one of the first members of Pabna district Chhatra League, Awami League’s student wing.

In 1971, he was the convenor of the Swadhin Bangla Chhatra Sangram Parishad in Pabna, and participated in Liberation War.

He became the president of the Pabna district Jubo League in 1974.

He was imprisoned following the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975. He was later appointed as the Law Ministry’s coordinator in the Bangabandhu assassination case.

In 1982, he joined the BCS (Judicial) Department, and in 1995, he was elected as General Secretary of the Judicial Service Association.

He served as the chairman of the Judicial Inquiry Commission, which investigated murders, rapes, thefts, and other crimes by BNP-Jamaat alliance’s activists and leaders following the 2001 general election.

He is a lawyer by profession and a member of the Advisory Council of Bangladesh Awami League.

He also works as an advisor for NRB Global Bank Ltd.

He also worked as a District and Sessions Judge and retired in 2006. He was a commissioner at Anti-Corruption Commission from 2011 to 2016.

In the previous National Council of Bangladesh Awami League, he served as election commissioner.

He earned his LLB from Rajshahi University in 1975, and completed his MSc from the same institution.

Md Shahabuddin’s wife Prof Dr Rebecca Sultana, is a former joint secretary of the government.

He also attended as the representative of Bangladesh at the International Seminar in Beijing, capital of China, organized by the Commonwealth on Prevailing Law in Bangladesh.

Shahabuddin and his wife, Professor Rebeka Sultana, a former joint secretary of the government, have one son.