Vice President of Bangladesh

Vice-President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশের উপরাষ্ট্রপতি
Style	The Honorable
Residence	Jamuna State House Hare Road, Ramna, Dhaka
Appointer	President of Bangladesh
Formation	17 April 1971
First holder	Syed Nazrul Islam
Final holder	Moudud Ahmed
Abolished	6 December 1990

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The Vice-President of Bangladesh was formerly the second highest constitutional office in Bangladesh when the country was governed under a presidential system. The vice-president was the first person in the presidential line of succession, in the event of a president's resignation, removal or death. The post was held by several Bangladeshi statesmen during different periods of the country's history. The inaugural office holder was Syed Nazrul Islam during the Liberation War and the final office holder was Moudud Ahmed before and during '90's Mass Uprising. Abdus Sattar was the only vice-president to succeed to the presidency in 1981.

The office was first created in the 1971 Provisional Government of Bangladesh but abolished after the war when the new constitution founded a parliamentary republic. It was however reinstated only 3 years later in 1975 through the fourth amendment to the constitution which revived the presidential system as part of founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's "Second Revolution" reforms. A military junta interim government formed after a series of coup d'états reabolished the post the same year until President Major General Ziaur Rahman revived it in 1977 after a presidential confidence referendum. It was abolished once again in the military government of Hussain Muhammad Ershad after the 1982 coup but reinstated following elections in 1986. The post was finally dissolved in the 1991 interim government by Acting President Shahabuddin Ahmed after a constitutional referendum, through the twelfth amendment which restored the parliamentary system.