Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury

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Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury
শাহীনুর পাশা চৌধুরী
Member of Parliament
for Sunamganj-3
In office
July 2005 – October 2006
Preceded byAbdus Samad Azad
Succeeded byMuhammad Abdul Mannan
Personal details
NationalityBangladeshi
Political partyJamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh

Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Sunamganj-3 constituency during 2005–2006. He was elected a member of parliament for the first time in July 2005 after the death of incumbent Abdus Samad Azad, a Awami League Presidium member.[1][2][3]

Career[]

In 1991, Chowdhury was affiliated with Chhatra Jamiat Bangladesh. He was the Central General Secretary. He is the Joint General Secretary of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh. Member of the Parliament elected from Sunamganj-3 constituency. He was elected a member of parliament for the first time after the death of former Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad, a member of the Awami League Presidium in the 2005.[1][2][4]

Chowdhury unsuccessfully contested the 2008 and 2018 elections as a candidate of the four party alliance led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jatiya Oikya Front.[5]

Chowdhury served as the legal affairs secretary of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh in 2019–2020. He is the vice-president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh. On 7 May 2021, he was detained by Criminal Investigation Department from Sylhet following riots by Hefazat during a state visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.[6][7][8][9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "List of 8th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b শাহিনুর পাশা চৌধুরী (in Bengali). Prothom Alo. Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Shahinur Pasha Chy takes oath". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  4. ^ সুনামগঞ্জ-৩ আসনে প্রার্থীশূন্য বিএনপি. Bangladesh Pratidin (in Bengali). Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Hefazat leader Shahinur Pasha arrested in Sylhet". Dhaka Tribune. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Hefazat leader Shahinur Pasha arrested in Sylhet". Dhaka Tribune. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  7. ^ "Why Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh led to 12 deaths". BBC News. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Police arrest Shahinur Chowdhury, a former MP with Hifazat ties". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  9. ^ "Ex-MP sent to jail over Hefajat mayhem". The Daily Star. 9 May 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
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