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Advocate Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, a member of the BNP’s highest policymaking body, the National Standing Committee, has been appointed acting secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
The announcement was made in a press release issued Thursday by BNP Assistant Office Secretary Muhammad Munir Hossain.
According to the release, Rizvi was appointed acting secretary general under Article 7(b)(6) of the BNP constitution.
The post had remained vacant since Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir resigned as BNP secretary general and a member of the Standing Committee after submitting his nomination papers to the Election Commission on August 13.
After the BNP came to power, Rizvi was appointed an adviser to Prime Minister Tarique Rahman with the rank of minister on February 17. He was also serving as the party’s senior joint secretary general.
Rizvi’s ancestral home is in Kurigram. He holds master’s degrees in Geography and Environmental Studies and History from Rajshahi University, as well as a law degree.
Rizvi began his political career through the left-leaning Revolutionary Students Union after completing higher secondary education. He served as general secretary of the organisation’s Rajshahi Government College unit.
After the formation of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the BNP, he joined the organisation and became publicity secretary of its Rajshahi University unit. He later served as general secretary of the university unit and went on to become central president of Chhatra Dal.
In the 1989 Rajshahi University Central Students’ Union (RUCSU) election, Rizvi was elected vice-president, serving until 1990.
He was elected BNP senior joint secretary general at the party’s sixth national council on March 19, 2016.
During the 2026 national parliamentary election, Rizvi served as member secretary of the BNP’s Election Management Committee.
He was subsequently appointed a member of the BNP National Standing Committee on August 15, 2026.
