Mir Mohammad Nasiruddin

Mir Nasiruddin served as the State Minister for Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism in the second Khaleda Zia cabinet. He was the Four-party Alliance candidate in the 2005 Chittagong mayoral election. He was defeated by the incumbent Mayor A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury of the Bangladesh Awami League. He is an Adviser of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson and former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia. On 5 May 2017, he met the chief of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, Shah Ahmad Shafi, at Hathazari Madrasa, Chittagong. ==Corruption==

On 12 July 2007, Nasiruddin was jailed by a special anti-corruption court for corruption along with his son Mir Mohammed Helal Uddin for 13 years. The Bangladesh High Court nullified the sentences in August 2010. On 3 July 2014, the Bangladesh Supreme Court scrapped the High Court order that acquitted him of all charges. ==References==