Former Industry Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun arrested

The former MP has been arrested on charges of assault and murder of students during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement, RAB says

RAB has arrested former industry minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun as more and more former ministers, parliamentarians and Awami League leaders are taken into custody after the fall of the government.

ANM Imran Khan, assistant director of the RAB Law and Media Wing, confirmed that Majid had been arrested from Dhaka’s Gulshan on Tuesday night.

"Former MP and industry minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun has been arrested on charges of attacking, assaulting and murdering students during the Anti-discrimination Student Movement in Madhavadi area of Narsingdi on Aug 4," he said.

Further legal action will be taken on the matter, he said.

Sheikh Hasina resigned her premiership and fled to India on Aug 5 in the face of a student-led mass movement. An interim government was formed three days later. Since then, Awami League ministers, state ministers, top party leaders and influential members of parliament have been arrested.

Among those arrested are former law minister Anisul Huq, former social welfare minister Dipu Moni, former public administration minister Farhad Hossain, former railway minister Nurul Islam Sujan, former culture minister Asaduzzaman Noor, former state minister of ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak, former state minister for civil aviation and tourism Mahbub Ali, and two advisors to the prime minister, Salman F Rahman and Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury.

More than 40 of these senior leaders and politicians are in jail.

In 1986, Majid was elected the MP from the Narsingdi-4 constituency as an independent candidate.

In 2008, he was re-elected to the seat as an Awami League candidate in the 9th National Parliamentary Election. After that, he served as a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of Defence.

In 2014, he was re-elected as MP and served as the chairman of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Foreign Employment, the chairman of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Commerce and a member of the Standing Committee on Government Institutions.

In 2019, he was elected as an Awami League candidate in the 11th National Parliamentary Election and was made the industry minister.

He retained his seat as an Awami League candidate in the 12th National Parliamentary Election in 2024. He also retained his ministerial position.

Majid has been active in several political movements, including the 6-point movement, the mass uprising of 1969, and the Liberation War of 1971.

He was a central leader of the Jubo League and acting president of the Jubo League after the change of power on Aug 15, 1975.