Farhad Hossain (politician)

Hossain was born on 5 June 1972 to a Bengali family of Muslim Biswases in Meherpur, then part of the Kushtia District of Bangladesh.^[5] His family was originally from Lalbazar. He completed his master's degree in English .^[6] His father, Saheehuddin Biswas, was a politician, freedom fighter, and one of the founders of greater Kushtia District Awami League.^[6]

Hossain is the president of the Meherpur District unit of Awami League. He was a lecturer at the Dhaka City College.^[6]

Hossain was elected parliament member in 2014 from Meherpur-1 (Meherpur-Mujibnagar) as a candidate of the Awami League.^[7] He received 80,146 votes while independent candidate Md. Yeearul Islam received 13,919 votes.^[7] He was a member of the parliamentary standing committee of the Ministry of Finance of the 10th parliament and a member of the sub-committee of the parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Finance. He is an executive member of Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust.^[8]

Hossain was re-elected to parliament from Meherpur-1 as an Awami League candidate in 2018.^[9] He received 197,097 votes while his nearest rival, Masud Arun of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, received 14,192 votes.^[9] On 7 January 2019, he was appointed the state minister of public affairs; the first to be appointed a minister from Meherpur District.^[10]

In June 2022, Hossain said there were nearly 400 thousand vacancies in various ministries of the government.^[11] Hossain proposed the "Bangladesh Public Service Commission Bill-2022" which would raise the members of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission from 15 to 20.^[12]

On 14 September 2024, Hossain was arrested by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Dhaka's Eskaton area in a murder case filed for killing Rubel, a garment worker, during the 2024 non-cooperation movement.^[13]