Fakir Abdul Mannan
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Fakir Abdul Mannan (1901, Gazipur - 1994)[1][2] was a Bangladeshi lawyer and the former Minister of Agriculture of East Pakistan.[3]
Mannan was involved in the Pakistan Movement as a leader of the Muslim League.[4] He stood for one of the Dhaka seats in the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election, but lost to law student Tajuddin Ahmad by 13 thousand votes.[5] In 1960, Mannan was the secretary of the Provincial Muslim League.[6]
Mannan was the Minister of Food and Agriculture of East Pakistan from 1965 to 1968.[2][7][8] He is a former Provincial General Secretary of East Pakistan Muslim League.[9] He also served as the President of East Pakistan Provincial Muslim League and had called Bengalis "crooks that is why they respond to the leadership of a crook".[10]