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Mahfuj Alam
Mahfuj Alam (Bengali: মাহফুজ আলম) also known as Mahfuj Abdullah, is a Bangladeshi activist and was a coordinator of the liaison committee of Anti-discrimination Students Movement which led the Student–People's uprising.[2] He currently holds the position of the Adviser[3][4] and Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser of the Interim Government of Bangladesh.[5][6][7] Early life and educationHe was born in 1998 in Narayanpur village, located in the Ramganj Upazila of Lakshmipur district. He completed his SSC (Dakhil) from Gallak Darussunnat Alim Madrasa in Chandpur, and later passed his HSC (Alim) from Tamirul Millat Kamil Madrasa.[8] In the academic year 2015-16, he was a student in the Department of Law at the University of Dhaka.[9] ActivismHe was the coordinator of the liaison committee of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.[10] He was appointed as a special assistant to the chief adviser of the interim government with the status of a secretary on 28 August. On 25 September 2024, while speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative on the sidelines of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, Muhammad Yunus, Chief Advisor to Bangladesh's interim government, referred to Mahfuj as "the brain" of the Student-People's uprising, which culminated in the fall of Sheikh Hasina's administration.[11][12] Views and affiliationDipanjan Roy Chaudhury, an editor of the Indian newspaper The Economic Times, alleged that Alam is a former member of the Islamist fundamentalist organization, Hizb ut-Tahrir.[13] Alam later refuted the claim in a Facebook post.[14] Mahfuj was also the victim of many false propaganda that was coming from various paid media, which was later clarified and justified as false claim. [15] [16] On 16 December 2024, Mahfuj Alam showed Indian states of Tripura, Assam, and West Bengal a part of Bangladesh in an image shared in his Facebook post, while declaring the need for "a new geography and system".[17][18][19] Alam also claimed that the cultures of Northeast India and Bangladesh have been suppressed by "Hindu extremists" and "anti-Bengal attitude" of the upper-caste Hindus.[19] Harshil Mehta, an editor of the Indian newsportal News18, commented that his 'statement represents a direct threat to India’s sovereignty and hints at demographic changes through the persecution of Hindus.'[20] See alsoReferences
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