Nurul Islam Manzur (Bengali: নূরুল ইসলাম মঞ্জুর; 26 May 1936 – 26 May 2020) was a former Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former State Minister of Communication in the cabinet of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
[2] He served in the Fourth Sheikh Mujib cabinet as the State Minister of Communication.
According to the sources of the United States Embassy in Dhaka, he was removed due to his rivalry with Abdur Rab Serniabat, the Minister of Flood Control and Water Development and brother-in-law of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
[citation needed] He joined the Moshtaque Ahmad government after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as State Minister for Railways and Communication.
[3][4] Manzur was arrested in 1999 along with KM Obaidur Rahman, and Shah Moazzem Hossain in the jail killing case in 1999 by the Bangladesh Awami League government.