Mohammed Shahabuddin
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A judge turned anti-corruption commissioner who rose to Bangladesh's presidency in 2023 without opposition - then watched the government that elected him collapse, leaving his neutrality under sharp public scrutiny.
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Do not think only about doing good for yourself and your family. One must think of doing good for everyone.
Addressing Buddhist leaders, he said, Do good for all - President Mohammed Shahabuddin to Buddhist leaders 04 May 2023.
Society must be built in line with the people's expectations.
He said this while exchanging views with journalists at Pabna Press Club. Cited from: Society must be built in line with the people's
The government is committed to ensuring transparency, efficiency, and accountability in the judiciary.
He made this statement at the inaugural session of the conference titled ‘Constitutional Courts in South Asia in the 21st Century: Lessons
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Politicians born in the 1940s 6
About this person
Born 10 December 1949, Mohammed Shahabuddin came up through the courts as a district and sessions judge before spending five years as an Anti-Corruption Commission commissioner from 2011 to 2016. He'd been active in Awami League circles as a student but never formally entered politics afterward, keeping to the bench and the bureaucracy. In 2023 the ruling Awami League put him forward for president; no one else ran. He took office and publicly backed the League on multiple occasions - until Sheikh Hasina resigned and the government fell. His earlier expressions of support became a problem: opposition figures and chunks of the public began questioning whether a sitting president who'd cheered one party could now stand above them all.
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