Shamsul Hoque Tuku | |
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শামসুল হক টুকু | |
 Tuku in 2012 | |
| 13th Deputy Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad | |
| Assumed office 28 August 2022 | |
| Speaker | Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury |
| Preceded by | Fazle Rabbi Miah |
| Member of Jatiya Sangsad | |
| Assumed office 6 January 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Matiur Rahman Nizami |
| Constituency | Pabna-1 |
| State Minister of Home Affairs | |
| In office July 2009 – 12 January 2014 | |
| Prime Minister | Sheikh Hasina |
| Minister |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 May 1948 |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Political party | Bangladesh Awami League |
Shamsul Hoque Tuku (born 31 May 1948)[1] is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and incumbent Deputy speaker of Jatiya Sangsad. He is the former State Minister of the Government of Bangladesh for Ministry of Home Affairs in the second Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government.[2] Tuku was elected to Parliament from Pabna-1 in 2008, 2014, 2018 and 2024.[3][4]
Tuku was born on 31 May 1948. He has master's degrees in communication, arts, and law.[5] He is a lawyer.[6]
Tuku was elected to Parliament for the first time in the ninth Bangladesh parliamentary election, in 2008, representing constituency Pabna-1.[7] In July 2009, he was appointed as a State Minister for the Home Ministry by the cabinet council of the Bangladesh Government.[8] His house in Pabna district, which was rented out to the local passport office, was fire damaged by members of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in 2013.[9]
Tuku was re-elected to Parliament in the tenth Bangladesh parliamentary election, in 2014.[6] He is a member of three Parliamentary standing committees: Ministry of Home Affairs; Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs; and Public Accounts.[10] On 28 August 2022, he has been selected for the vacant post of Deputy Speaker of Jatiyo Sangsad.[11]
Tuku's brother, Abdul Baten, is the mayor of Bera Municipality. In October 2020, Baten was accused of "misbehaving" with the upazila nirbahi officer.[12]