Mohammad Moniruzzaman Moni. Photo: Collected

KHULNA, July 13, 2026 (BSS) - Former Khulna City Corporation (KCC) mayor and freedom fighter Mohammad Moniruzzaman Moni has been appointed chairman of the Khulna Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (KWASA) for a three-year term.

The appointment was announced in a notification issued today by the Local Government Division under the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives.

According to the notification, signed by Senior Assistant Secretary Shakila Parvin, Moniruzzaman has been appointed under Section 7(1) of the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Amendment) Act, 2026.

The order takes immediate effect in the public interest.

A resident of Haji Mohsin Road in Khulna city, Moniruzzaman began his political career as an elected commissioner of Ward No. 29 of the KCC in 1994. Later, he served as acting mayor on four terms.

He was elected mayor of Khulna City Corporation by a landslide victory in 2013.

In November of the same year, a charge-sheet was submitted against him in a case filed over allegations of attacking police and acts of sabotage.

Subsequently, the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives  suspended him temporarily through a notification issued on November 2, 2015.

Moniruzzaman Moni also served as general secretary of the Khulna city unit of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).