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Abdur Rouf Chowdhury

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Abdur Rouf Chowdhury
Member of Parliament (Bangladesh)
In office
27 February 1991 – 15 February 1996
Preceded byAhsan Habib Lincoin
Succeeded byShahidul Islam
In office
7 March 1973 – 18 February 1979
Succeeded byZillur Rahman
Personal details
Died23 July 2014
Dhaka
Political partyBangladesh Nationalist Party

Abdur Rouf Chowdhury was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician who was a member of parliament for Kushtia-2.

Career

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Chowdhury was a veteran of Bangladesh Liberation War.[1]

Chowdhury was elected to parliament from Kushtia-2 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973.[2][3] He was elected in 1991 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate from Kushtia-3.[4]

Chowdhury refused to participate in the February 1996 election due to no party other than Bangladesh Nationalist Party contesting the election.[1] The nomination went to Shahidul Islam.[1]

Chowdhury died on 23 July 2014 in Dhaka.[5]

His son, barrister Raghib Rauf Chowdhury, is the office secretary of the Lawyers unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Ex-BNP MP in Kushtia faces seven cases". The Daily Star. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  2. ^ "List of 1st Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 September 2018. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  3. ^ Bangladesh. Embassy of Bangladesh. 1974. p. 4.
  4. ^ "Electoral Area Result Statistics". Amarmp. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  5. ^ সাবেক সাংসদ আবদুর রউফের ইন্তেকাল. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). 25 July 2014.
  6. ^ "Kushtia 2 constituency: Multiple candidates in ruling, opposition alliances". Dhaka Tribune. 30 September 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2020.