Zaheed Farooque

Zaheed Farooque is a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He is a former State Minister of Water Resources and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Barisal-5 constituency during 2019–2024.

Career

Farooque retired from Bangladesh as a colonel.
Farooque was elected to parliament on 30 December 2018 from Barisal-5 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. He was appointed the State Minister of Water Resources in the Fourth Sheikh Hasina Cabinet.
On 23 August 2024, charges were filed against him and at least 377 others for their role in an attack on the offices of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in Barisal during the Non-cooperation movement (2024) on 5 August.