Jamiruddan Sircar (Bengali: জমীরুদ্দিন সরকার) (born December 1st,1931) is a Barrister and a renowned politician from Bangladesh. He is one of the founding members of the [Bangladesh Nationalist Party] and was a member of the Standing Committee, which was the policy making body of the party, from its inception. He was speaker of the parliament when, on June 21, 2002, he became acting president because of the resignation of A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury. He remained acting president until a new president was elected on September 6, 2002.
Mr.
Sircar was elected Member of Parliament four times and he
held cabinet positions as the (i) Minister of State for
Public Works and Urban Development (Habitat), (ii) Minister
of State for Foreign Affairs, (iii) Minister of State for
Land Administration and Land Reforms (iv) Minister for
Science and Technology, (v) Minister for Education and (vi)
Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.
Mr Sircar obtained his M.A and LL.B degree from the
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and joined the Bar to
practice Law in 1960. He left for London in 1961 for the
degree of Barrister-at-Law and was admitted and called to
the Bar by the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, to
practice Law as a member of the English Bar as well as
Commonwealth Countries Bar. He emerged as an eminent
Barrister of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in
constitutional, civil and criminal laws.
In 1977, Mr. Sircar was selected by President Ziaur Rahman
as a member of the Bangladesh Delegation to the United
Nations General Assembly. As a delegate he looked after the
Legal Committee and continued in this role for the next four
years between 1977-1980. In 1981, as Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs he traveled to the U.N. to make deliberation
on Middle East peace process and disarmament. He later
attended the Non-alligned Labor Minister's Conference in
Baghdad. Here he made valuable contributions in various
areas of the law including, International, Industrial,
Commercial, Hijacking, Law of the Sea, International Rivers,
Environmental issues, Multilateral treaty making Process,
Strengthening the role of the United Nations in maintaining
international peace and security and other important issues
with eminent jurists, some of whom later became Judges of
the International Court of Justice. Mr. Sircar has led
Bangladesh Delegations to as many as 25 international
conferences and has chaired in several of them.
Mr. Sircar has authored several books, among which "Glimpses
of International Law", and "Stronger United Nations for
Peaceful Welfare World" are notable.