AKM Fazlul Haque Milon

Milon is a former President of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal.[1]

Milon contested the June 1996 Bangladeshi general election from Gazipur-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate and lost.[2] He had received 30,834 votes while the winner, Akhtaruzzaman of Awami League received 35,502 votes.[2]

Milon was elected to parliament from Gazipur-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001.[2] He had received 58,518 votes while his nearest rival, Akhtaruzzaman of Awami League, had received 58,133 votes.[2] He was the only candidate from Bangladesh Nationalist Party to be elected from Gazipur District in the 8 parliamentary election.[3] He was the General Secretary of Swechchhasebak Dal and Gazipur District unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[3] He received a plot in Dhaka from the government along 104 members of parliament from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.[4][5]

In September 2007, Milon was arrested from Gulshan by Rapid Action Battalion.[3] Rapid Action Battalion additional director general Gulzar Uddin Ahmed reported that Milon was held under Emergency Power Rules and was handed over to Ramna Police station.[3] He was charged with embezzling metal sheets meant for relief.[3] His Mitsubishi Pajero was also seized by Rapid Action Battalion.[3] He was sentenced to prison by Dhaka metropolitan magistrate ABM Abdul Fattah.[1] The Anti Corruption Commission placed him on a list of 80 suspected corrupt politicians.[6]

Milon was nominated to contest the 2008 Bangladeshi general election from Gazipur-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate.[7] He lost the election with 74,899 votes while the winner, Meher Afroz of Awami League, received 125,903 votes.[8]

In March 2009, Milon received bail in a cases filed by the Anti Corruption Commission.[9]

Milon campaigned for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate for the 2011 Brahmanbaria-3 by election, Khaled Hossain Mahbub Shamol, against RAM Ubaidul Muktadir Chowdhury of Awami League.[10]

In May 2012, Milon and 32 other senior leaders of Bangladesh Nationalist Party were sent to jail in an arson case, regarding over a dozen vehicles burned during a strike by his party, after their bail petition was denied.[11]

Milon did not participate the 2014 Bangladeshi general election as the Bangladesh Nationalist Party boycotted it.[12] Meher Afroz of Awami League was elected uncontested from Gazipur-5.[8] In December 2014, Bangladesh Chhattra League took over a venue of Bangladesh Nationalist Party at Bhawal Badre Alam College in Gazipur where former prime minister Khaleda Zia was scheduled to speak.[13] Milon vowed to hold the rally at the college despite it.[13]

In 2018, Milon was nominated by Bangladesh Nationalist Party to contest the 2018 Bangladeshi general election from Gazipur-5.[14][15] He was arrested in December 2018 from Gazipur, before the election, following arrest warrants issued from Dhaka.[16] He was one of a number of Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders held in jail before the election.[17] He lost the election to Meher Afroz of Awami League.[18] He had received 27,976 votes while Afroz had received 207,699 votes.[18]

Milon was arrested on 11 October 2022 after he and fellow Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader blocked a road according to Bangadesh Police while the party claimed they were holding a peaceful rally.[19]