Naziur Rahman Manzur

Naziur Rahman Manzur is a Bangladesh Jatiya Party politician, founding chairman of the party, former government minister in the Cabinet of Hussain Mohammad Ershad and former Mayor of Dhaka.

He was born in 15 March 1948 in Bhola, East Bengal. He was a member of the Mukti Bahini, who fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war in sector 9. In the 1980s he served as a minister in the cabinet of Hossain Mohammad Ershad and was a member of his Jatiya party In 1999 Ershad had an alliance with the Khaleda Zia led Bangladesh Nationalist party which was the opposition party. Ershad decided to quite the alliance but a fraction of Jatiya Party leaders led by Naziur Rahman decided to quite the party and remain in the alliance led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party. This fraction became the Bangladesh Jatiya Party.

He has three sons, one of whom, Andaleeve Rahman is the present chairman of the party and a member of parliament.

He died on 6 April 2008 in BIRDEM hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.