Bangladeshi journalist Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury (Bengali: মোখলেসুর রহমান চৌধুরী) also known as Mokhles Chowdhury, was adviser to the President of Bangladesh during the 2006-07 Caretaker Government.
Education and awards
Chowdhury received his Masters of Arts in Mass communication & Journalism from the University of Dhaka.
Role during the 2006-2007 political crisis
On 13 November 2006, Iajuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh as well as the Chief Adviser of Caretaker Government appointed M Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury as the Adviser to President with the rank and status of State Minister. From December 2006 to January 2007, when acute national political impasses arose in Bangladesh out of uncertainty about Parliamentary elections, he performed the role of President’s special envoy in the negotiation process for a peaceful solution between Begum Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina, the two top leaders of rival political alliances of Bangladesh. The political parties agreed to participate in parliamentary elections on 3 January 2007. The elections were postponed on 11 January 2007 at the alleged intervention of a group of military officers which had created an event known as One-Eleven that subsequently led to an interim government.
Chowdhury alleged that Moeen U Ahmed, erstwhile Army Chief was the main force in the events of Bangladesh on 11 January 2007 and the hidden agenda of Moeen was to capture the country's Presidency in disguise of interim Caretaker Government headed by Fakhruddin Ahmed. Mukhles's interviews were published in Thikana, Akhon Samoy, Probashi Voice, Bangla Patrika and Probashi barta of New York and Voice of America and Euro Bangla, Bangla Post, BBC, Channel S and Bangla TV of London. "Military coup in Bangladesh: Dateline 2007", one of his fact-finding write-ups about the One Eleven conspiracy, was published in the weekly Akhon Samoy of New York.
Previous Positions
Press Secretary as well as spokesman of the Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed
from December 2004 to November 2006.
Former diplomatic editor and special correspondent of the Daily Dinkal.
Also worked for the Ajker Kagoj and the Naba Abhijan as special correspondent, the Dainik Patrika as chief reporter and the Island Upali newspapers of Sri Lanka as Bangladesh correspondent.
Was editor of the Weekly Sarak and the Sromo magazine.