Mozammel Haque (Bangladesh Awami League politician)

Mozammel Haque (born 1 October 1946) is a Bangladesh Awami League Politician and the Minister for Liberation War Affairs of Bangladesh since 2014. Mozammal is a Member of Parliament for Gazipur-1 constituency.

Early life
Haque was born on 1 October 1946 in Dakhina Khan, Gazipur Sadar Upazila, Gazipur District to Anwar Ali and Rabeya Khatun.

Career
Haque was a member of the East Pakistan Chhatra League Central Working Committee. He fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war in 1971 and was part of the Mukti Bahini. From 1973 to 1986, he was elected Upazila chairman three times and four times municipal mayor. He was elected to the parliament from Gazipur-1 in 2008. He was elected unopposed from the same constituency in the 2014 elections which the opposition boycotted citing unfair conditions for the election. He acted as the religious minister of Bangladesh from 2018 to 2019. In 2019, he was appointed the Minister for Liberation War Affairs.

Controversy
In his 1986 book Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood, Anthony Mascarenhas wrote Mozammel was involved in a gang-rape of a newlywed wife in 1974.

The incident has been also depicted in novel Deyal by Humayun Ahmed.