Jumbangla Desk: The popular name of Sirajganj is Dr. Jannat Ara Talukdar Henry. She was a housewife, musician and school teacher. Later became a political leader. From there he got a boat ticket in the parliamentary elections but was defeated in the vote. After that Sonali got the position of director of the bank. Become an influential leader after getting the post. This post turns the wheel of fortune like Aladdin's lamp. His rise began from here. Become the owner of abundant wealth. After that, there was no looking back. It is said that the scope of his wealth gradually increased along with the party rank and title, he won the nomination of Awami League from Sadar seat in the 12th National Parliament election in 2024 due to the power of money. He became an MP after spending crores of rupees even though there was no strong rival.

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He started taking control of district politics by becoming an MP. Within 3 months of becoming a Member of Parliament, Swami Shamim Talukdar was made Zilla Parishad Chairman by spending 16 crore rupees. Henry, a teacher of the local Sabuj Kanan School and College, started his journey from zero to become a millionaire through various misdeeds including Hallmark scam, loan payment and waiver, job trading, promotion and transfer of officials. Not only in his own district Sirajganj, but also in Narayanganj, Gazipur, Patuakhali and Dhaka. Henry is the owner of more than 500 crore rupees in 16 years through corruption, irregularities and abuse of power. But in 2008, he was the owner of only 6.5 lakh rupees. His wealth has increased 884 times as a government, and more than 2100 times as a private one.

Henry's election affidavit in the twelfth parliamentary election reveals that his wealth has increased 884 times in the last 16 years. In 2008, during the 9th National Assembly elections, he mentioned in his affidavit that his movable and immovable assets were 6 lakh 34 thousand 500 taka. Income from teaching and agriculture was Tk 1 lakh 22 thousand. The annual cost was shown to be Rs. 80,000. According to income tax records, his wealth has increased 884 times in the 14 years till June 30, 2022 to Tk 51 crore 98 lakh 58 thousand.

Sadar Upazila Syedabad Union of Sadanandpur village, the daughter of the heroic freedom fighter teacher Abdul Hamid Mia. Jannat Ara Talukdar Henry. After marrying Shameem Talukder Labu, son of former Governor Motahar Hossain Talukder, a politician and language soldier, he took a job as a music teacher at Sabuj Kanan School and College. Besides, he involved himself in the cultural activities of the district as a Rabindra Sangeet artist.

Being the daughter-in-law of a political family, Awami League's subsidiary organization Mahila became active in Awami League politics. At one stage, Henry was given the responsibility of the Secretary of Forest and Environment of the Central Women's Awami League.

The investigation revealed that after forming the grand coalition government led by Sheikh Hasina in 2009, Dr. Henry was made a member of the board of directors of Sonali Bank. In Sonali Bank's Hallmark scandal, Dr. Jannat Ara Talukdar Henry was also named. Hallmark Group managing director Tanveer Ahmed, who is in jail, in his confessional statement in the court against some directors of the bank about accepting bribes from him. The ACC later started an investigation against him for alleged acquisition of assets outside known income. Although 3 officials were given responsibility in stages, the illegal assets were not found. Finally, in September 2013, Henry and the directors were acquitted of the charges.

Henry's income tax returns show his net worth as on June 30, 2019 of Tk 11.66 lakh 37 thousand. Out of this, 2 crore 22 lakh 50 thousand black taka is whitened as land price. As of June 2020, net assets are shown at 47 crore 36 lakh 74 thousand rupees. Out of this he whitewashed 32.5 million black money. On June 30, 2021, the net assets mentioned in the income tax documents are Tk 47 crore 71 lakh 88 thousand. Till June 30, 2022, 1 crore 3 million black rupees were again whitened in the income tax documents. Net assets are shown as 51 crore 98 lakh 58 thousand rupees.

Sirajganj and Gazipur have many immovable properties bearing signboards in the name of Henry. Ghazaria Resort in Sirajganj, Jannat Ara Henry College of Science and Technology and Henry Institute of Bioscience Technology at Nalichapara, Ras Medicare Clinic at Mujib Road, Henry Bhuban Nursing Home at Ghazaria, Motahar Hossain Talukdar Medical College and Hospital at Ghazaria, Henry Scholastica School and College at Fazal Khan Road has been developed.

He became an MP from Sirajganj-2 (Sadar-Kamarkhand) constituency in the 12th National Assembly elections. He started taking control of district politics. Former Sadar Constituency MP Habibe Millat ran a steamroller on the party leaders to corner Munna's followers. He started taking control of the district politics single handedly leaving out the senior leaders.

It is to be noted that during the anti-discrimination movement of the students and the people, a case was filed against them in the incident of shooting and killing 3 leaders and activists of Jubo Dal and Chhatra Dal in Sirajganj city. They were absconding since the case. Later, RAB-12 and RAB-9 joint raid team with the cooperation of information technology and intelligence branch raided the house of Delwar Hossain Bachchu in Sonapur area of ​​Moulvibazar and arrested the fugitive accused. Jannat Ara Talukder Henry and her husband Labu Talukder were arrested and sent to jail. Currently they are in 7 days remand. The remand will end on October 9. Source: Human Earth