Bangladeshi activist and special assistant to the chief adviser of Bangladesh
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He was the coordinator of the liaison committee of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement.[10] He was appointed as a special assistant to the chief adviser of the interim government with the status of a secretary on 28 August.
Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, an editor of the Indian newspaper The Economic Times, alleged that Alam is a former member of the Islamist fundamentalist organization, Hizb ut-Tahrir.[13] Alam later refuted the claim in a Facebook post.[14] Mahfuj was also the victim of many false propaganda that was coming from various paid media, which was later clarified and justified as false claim. [15][16]
On 16 December 2024, Mahfuj Alam showed Indian states of Tripura, Assam, and West Bengal a part of Bangladesh in an image shared in his Facebook post, while declaring the need for "a new geography and system".[17][18][19] Alam also claimed that the cultures of Northeast India and Bangladesh have been suppressed by "Hindu extremists" and "anti-Bengal attitude" of the upper-caste Hindus.[19] Harshil Mehta, an editor of the Indian newsportal News18, commented that his 'statement represents a direct threat to India’s sovereignty and hints at demographic changes through the persecution of Hindus.'[20]
