Badi-ud-din Mahmud

The Honourable Deshamanya Badiudin Mahmud MP
Minister of Education
In office 31 May 1970 – 23 July 1977
Prime Minister	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Preceded by	I. M. R. A. Iriyagolla
Succeeded by	Nissanka Wijeyeratne
In office 23 July 1960 – 28 May 1963
Prime Minister	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Preceded by	Bernard Aluwihare
Succeeded by	P. B. G. Kalugalla
Minister of Health and Housing
In office 28 May 1963 – 1965
Prime Minister	Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Preceded by	A. P. Jayasuriya
Succeeded by	M. D. H. Jayawardena
Personal details
Born	23 June 1904 Matara, Sri Lanka
Died	16 June 1997 (aged 92) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Resting place	Maligawatte Muslim Burial Grounds
Citizenship	Sri Lankan
Nationality	Sri Lankan
Political party	Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Other political affiliations	Islamic Socialist Front
Spouse(s)	Shamsun Nahar (Div - 1955) Fathima Khanum
Children	Kamila Latif, Kamaludin Irshad Mahmud, Jamaludin Tariq Mahmud, Vaseema Ismail, Nusrath Anver
Alma mater	Zahira College(Colombo), St.Thomas(Matara), Wesley College
Occupation	Politician
Religion	Islam

Deshamanya Dr. Badiudin Mahmud (23 June 1904 – 16 June 1997) was a Sri Lankan politician. He served 10 years as Minister of Education and also held the office of Minister of Health and Housing.

"A community must be politically recognized before it could do anything great and contribute its proud share towards the progress of the country. An individual however great, however cleaver, however patriotic, cannot honestly feel happy in his individual greatness, when the section to which he belongs and from which he derived all his inspirations lies humiliated and relegated to an inglorious place in the political structure of his country"''

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