Faridul Huda

Muhammad Faridul Huda was a Bangladeshi physician and politician. He was the member of parliament for Comilla-2 from 1979 to 1982. He was, for a time, the state minister for Health & Population Control in the Ziaur Rahman ministry.

Biography

Huda was born in 1929 or 1930. He earned a degree at Dhaka Medical College.

Huda ran unsuccessfully for the Comilla-II seat in the 1965 East Pakistan Provincial Assembly election.
Huda joined the National Awami Party (Bhashani). He stood for the National Assembly of Pakistan seat of Comilla-II in the 1970 Pakistani general election. He finished last, receiving 1,819 fewer votes than the fifth-place Convention Muslim League candidate, Azizur Rahman Mollah.
Bangladesh won its independence from Pakistan in 1971. Huda contested again as a NAP candidate in the 1973 Bangladeshi general election.
In 1979, he was elected to parliament from Comilla-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate. He was appointed Minister of State for Health & Population Control by President Ziaur Rahman. On 5 April 1981, he resigned along with three others from the 46-member Council of Ministers.

Huda died on 14 January 1999. He is buried in Ashuganj, adjacent to the grounds of Kamaura Shaheed Smriti High School, which he founded.
His son, Nazmul Huda Biplob, is also a physician. He sought the BNP nomination for Brahmanbaria-2 in the 2026 Bangladeshi general election.