Manik Lal Samaddar is a Bangladeshi civil servant and former special assistant to the Chief Advisor of the Caretaker government with the rank of a cabinet minister responsible for two ministries.
[1][2] Samaddar was a former secretary of the Government of Bangladesh.
On 22 January 2008, Jamil was appointed Special Assistant to Chief Advisor of the Caretaker government, Fakhruddin Ahmed, with the rank of a Minister.
He was placed in charge of the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock and the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology.
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