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Khaled Saifulla 11 Dec 2025 , 6:41 PM Print Edition
Md. Rashed Khan, the General Secretary of the Gono Odhikar Parishad (GOP), announced that Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan, the recently resigned Advisor for Local Government, Rural Development, and Cooperatives, is rejoining the party. Rashed Khan confirmed the matter to a media outlet around $10:30$ PM on Wednesday.
Rashed Khan said: “Asif Mahmud played an important role in our student organization. From the quota reform movement during the fascist Hasina regime to all the struggles on the streets, he was with us. He even suffered a lot of abuse during that time.”
He further added, “We are currently in talks with Asif. He was previously involved in the politics of Gono Odhikar Parishad. He will be given a respectable position in the party. We have discussed this with him. The matter will be finalized very soon. However, we want to bring him back to the party at any cost.”
Earlier on Wednesday evening, Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan submitted his resignation to Chief Advisor Dr. Yunus at Jamuna. In a press conference held in the conference room of the Local Government Division at the Secretariat that afternoon, he announced that he would participate in the upcoming national parliamentary election. He said, “It is confirmed that I will contest the election. I will announce later which party I will contest from.”
Asif Mahmud resigned from the advisory post with the intention of becoming a candidate in the national election. There is political speculation that he may contest from the Dhaka-$10$ constituency (Dhanmondi, Kalabagan, New Market, and Hazaribagh). He has already registered as a voter in this constituency.
After the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s government on August $5$ of last year, an interim government was formed on August $8$ under the leadership of Muhammad Yunus. Three representatives of the students who led the July mass uprising were given positions in the government. Among them, Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan first served as the Labor Advisor and later took charge of the Local Government Ministry.
