Mahfuz Alam

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Mahfuz Alam (Bengali: মাহফুজ আলম) also known as Mahfuz Abdullah, is a Bangladeshi student activist and 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]

He was born in 1998 in Ichapur 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]

He 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 Mahfuz as "the mastermind" of the Student-People's uprising, which culminated in the fall of Sheikh Hasina's administration.^[11][12]

Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, an editor of the Indian newspaper The Economic Times, alleged that Alam is a former member of the islamist fundamentalist organisation, Hizb ut-Tahrir.^[13] Alam later addressed the issue on his verified Facebook page, stating that he has never been affiliated with the organization and has consistently opposed its ideology. He also characterized the report as a "smear campaign" by the Indian media.^[14]

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