Barrister Ragib Rouf Chowdhury to be BNP government’s Attorney General

Staff Correspondent

After the formation of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led government, the name of senior Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Ragib Rouf Chowdhury has been finalized for the post of Attorney General, the country’s chief legal officer. According to sources in the Law Ministry, a notification in this regard may be issued today, Monday (February 23, 2026). Earlier, the name of another senior Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Md. Ruhul Quddus Kajal was also in discussion for this post, but in the end, Barrister Ragib Rouf Chowdhury has been selected.

Barrister Ragib Rouf Chowdhury has been practicing as a senior advocate of the Supreme Court for a long time. He has served as the treasurer of the Supreme Court Bar Association and is a member of the National Executive Committee of BNP. His father, the late Abdur Rouf Chowdhury, was a language soldier and one of the organizers of the Liberation War.

During his education, he completed his SSC from Kushtia Zilla School and HSC from Dhaka Notre Dame College. Later, he obtained an Honours degree in Political Science from Aligarh Muslim University and a Masters degree from Dhaka University. To obtain a higher degree in law, he studied in the UK and obtained a Bar-at-Law degree from Lincoln’s Inn.

The concerned people believe that this appointment will speed up the judicial process by ending the deadlock in the legal sector of the BNP government for the past 18 months. The legal community is seeing this as a transfer of responsibility to a qualified and experienced person. More official information will be known after the issuance of the notification.