Kamran Hossain Chowdhury
Kamran Hossain Chowdhury | |
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| Member of Bangladesh Parliament | |
| In office 1988–1990 | |
Kamran Hossain Chowdhury (born 1952) is a former Member of Parliament from Faridpur, Bangladesh. He was a member of the 4th Jatiyo Sangshad.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]Chowdhury was born in 1952. His father Shamsuddin Chowdhury was the son of a zamindar and studied at Islamia College in Calcutta during the British Raj. Shamsuddin lived in Baker Hostel with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. His mother Halima Chowdhury was the daughter of a civil servant who served as the District Collector (DC) of Faridpur in the 1950s under the government of A. K. Fazlul Huq. Chowdhury studied at Residential Model School and Notre Dame College.
Political career
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Chowdhury was elected to parliament from the town of Faridpur in 1988.[1] In parliament, he was a member of the parliamentary standing committee on foreign relations.[3] The committee supported the first dispatch of Bangladesh UN Peacekeeping Forces, as well as deploying Bangladeshi troops to the Gulf War. He also served as chairman of the Faridpur District Council. During his tenure, the River Research Institute was established in Faridpur with Dutch government funding. A road from Goalundo Ghat to Jessore via Faridpur was also built in 1990.[4] During the 1988 floods, President H M Ershad flew to Faridpur by helicopter to oversee relief operations coordinated by Chowdhury and the army.[5]
Chowdhury was the Vice President of the Japan-Bangladesh Parliamentary Association.[6] The association played a key role in mobilizing aid for the construction of Jamuna Bridge.[7] As a member of the fourth parliament, Chowdhury had to vote for the 8th, 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution of Bangladesh.[8][9] After the fall of Ershad, Chowdhury was a member of the Diplomatic Cell of Jatiya Party in the 1990s, as well as International Affairs Secretary in one faction of the party from 2001 to 2008.
References
[edit]- ^ a b ""List of 4th Parliament Members"" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ "Socialite Shusmita Chowdhury passes away".
- ^ "In Kissinger's shadow | Dhaka Tribune".
- ^ https://faridpur.substack.com/p/podcast-episode-2-aid-roads-and-development
- ^ https://faridpur.substack.com/p/podcast-episode-4-microcredit-decentralization
- ^ https://faridpur.substack.com/p/podcast-episode-3-foreign-policy
- ^ https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/290679/what%E2%80%99s-wrong-with-a-thousand-padma-bridges
- ^ https://faridpur.substack.com/p/the-eighth-amendment
- ^ https://faridpur.substack.com/p/the-ninth-and-tenth-amendments