Abdul Latif Siddiqui

Abdul Latif Siddique
আব্দুল লতিফ সিদ্দিকী
Abdul Latif Siddiqui in 2014
Minister of Posts and Telecommunications and Information Communication Technology
In office 12 January 2014 – 30 September 2014
Prime Minister	Sheikh Hasina
Preceded by	Rashed Khan Menon
Minister of Textiles and Jute
In office January 2009 – 2013
Prime Minister	Sheikh Hasina
Succeeded by	Emaz Uddin Pramanik
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament for Tangail-4
In office 25 January 2009 – 1 September 2015
Preceded by	Shajahan Siraj
In office 14 July 1996 – 13 July 2001
Preceded by	Shajahan Siraj
Succeeded by	Shajahan Siraj
Personal details
Born	Abdul Latif Siddiqui 1943 (age 73–74) Tangail
Political party	Bangladesh Awami League
Spouse(s)	Laila Siddiqui
Children	3
Residence	Dhaka, Bangladesh

Abdul Latif Siddiqui is a Bangladeshi politician.

He served as a member of the Parliament of the People's Republic of Bangladesh from Tangail-4 constituency. He resigned on 1 September 2015.

He was the former Jute and Textiles Minister of the Bangladesh Government from 2009 to 2013. In January 2014, Abdul Latif Siddiqui was made the Posts and Telecommunications along with Information Communication Technology Minister in the 10th cabinet. On 30 September 2014, he was sacked from his ministerial post and the cabinet after his criticism of the Muslim pilgrimage of Haj triggered protests by Islamists who declared him an apostate and set a 24-hour deadline to replace him.

In March 2014, Siddiqui was reported by media to have beaten a PDB engineer with a stick, leaving him severely injured. In September 2014, Siddiqui was widely criticised for his remarks criticising the Muslim pilgrimage, the Hajj, and the Islamic organisation, the Tabligh Jamaat, leading to strong calls for his removal from the cabinet.