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{{Infobox officeholder
| name =
| native_name = বদি আহমদ চৌধুরী
| native_name_lang = bn
| birth_date = 23 March 1886
| birth_place = [[Banshkhali Upazila|Bailchhari]], [[Chittagong District]], [[Bengal Presidency]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|04|13|1886|03|23|df=y}}
| death_place = [[East Pakistan]]
| citizenship =
| known_for =
| office1 = Member of the [[Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| term_start1 = 1943
| term_end1 = 1945
| constituency1 = Chittagong Landholders
| predecessor1=[[Kshirod Chandra Roy]]
| successor1=[[Kumar Arun Chandra Sinha]]
| office2 = Member of the [[Bengal Legislative Council]]
| term_start2 = 1929
| term_end2 = 1937
| constituency2 = Chittagong South
| predecessor2=[[Khan Sahib Abdus Sattar]]
| successor2=[[Nur Ahamed]]
}}
'''[[Khan Bahadur]] [[Haji]] Badi Ahmad Chowdhury''' [[Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire|CIE]] (23 March 1886 - 13 April 1962) was a Bengali politician and [[zamindar]]. He served as a member of both the [[Bengal Legislative Council]] and [[Bengal Legislative Assembly]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=বদি আহমদ চৌধুরীর নিষ্ঠা ও দেশপ্রেম অনুসরণীয় |url=https://www.banglanews24.com/public/daily-chittagong/news/bd/390362.details |access-date=2 September 2022 |publisher=বাংলা নিউজ ২৪}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=বদি আহমদ চৌধুরীর মৃত্যুবার্ষিকী কাল |url=https://m.dailyinqilab.com/article/199317/বদি-আহমদ-চৌধুরীর-মৃত্যুবার্ষিকী-কাল |access-date=2 September 2022 |publisher=দৈনিক ইনকিলাব}}</ref>

== Early life and family ==
Chowdhury was born on 23 March 1886 at the Bailchhari Wazir Bari (now Khan Bahadur Bari) in [[Banshkhali Upazila|Banshkhali]], [[Chittagong District]], [[Bengal Presidency]] (now in [[Bangladesh]]). His father, Mazaharun Nabi Chowdhury, belonged to a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] [[zamindar]] family of [[Muslims|Muslim]] [[Vizier|Viziers]]. His mother, Tamizunnesa Chowdhury, was a housewife. His ancestor Syed Abdur Rahman Siddiqi is claimed to have migrated from [[Arabian Peninsula|Arabia]] to Bengal, settling down in Chittagong. Siddiqi's grandson Muhammad Khan served as the Naib-Wazir under Mughal governor [[Shaista Khan]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rafiq |first=Nur Muhammad |title=আমীরুল হজ্ব খান বাহাদুর বদি আহমদ চৌধুরী |pages=15 |language=bn}}</ref> Chowdhury's great grandfather Muhammad Ahmad Hussain Chowdhury migrated from [[Lohagara Upazila, Chittagong|Mallik Subhan]] to Bailchhari. Chowdhury's two younger brothers were divisional forest officer [[Khan Sahib]] Alhaj Rafiq Ahmed Chowdhury and [[Qadi|Qazi]] Aziz Ahmed Chowdhury.<ref>{{Cite news |title=চট্টগ্রামে বিখ্যাত যারা |url=https://www.bd-journal.com/special-report/88956/চট্টগ্রামে-বিখ্যাত-যারা |access-date=2 September 2022 |publisher=বাংলাদেশ জার্নাল}}</ref><ref name="n">{{Cite news |title=স্মরণ : খান বাহাদুর বদি আহমদ চৌধুরী |url=https://www.dailynayadiganta.com/ampproject/post-editorial/402633/স্মরণ-খান-বাহাদুর-বদি-আহমদ-চৌধুরী |access-date=2 September 2022 |publisher=দৈনিক নয়াদিগন্ত}}</ref>

== Career ==
Badi Ahmed Chowdhury started his career soon after completing his primary education. At the age of 18, he was appointed as the Manager of Muhammad Abdul Bari's Munshi Estate in [[Anwara Upazila|Anwara]]. Later, he served as the President of Bailchhari-Katharia Union in Banshkhali for a long 30 years from 1920 to 1950.<ref name="a">{{Cite news |title=স্মরণ: খান বাহাদুর বদি আহমদ চৌধুরী |url=https://dainikazadi.net/স্মরণ-খান-বাহাদুর-বদি-আহম/ |access-date=2 September 2022 |publisher=দৈনিক আজাদী}}</ref> In June 1929, he contested the [[Bengal Legislative Council]] elections for Chittagong South constituency (13 thanas from Rangunia to Teknaf) and won, serving as a member of the Council for eight years. Additionally, on December 15, 1943, he was by-elected as a Member of the [[Bengal Legislative Assembly]] (MLA) as a representative of the zamindars of Chittagong, Noakhali, Sylhet, and Tipperah, which formed the divisional Chittagong Landholders constituency.<ref name="n" /> He was awarded the title "Amirul Hajj" in 1935 as the representative of the pilgrims of undivided Bengal,<ref>{{Cite news |title=হজ্বের ইতিহাসে চট্টগ্রামের অবস্থান ও নিবেদন |url=https://dainikpurbokone.net/editorial/19737/হজ্বের-ইতিহাসে-চট্টগ্রাম/ |access-date=2 September 2022 |publisher=দৈনিক পূর্বকোণ}}</ref> and the title "[[Khan Bahadur]]" by the [[British Raj]] in 1936. When famine struck Chittagong during [[World War II]] he approved 700,000 tons of rice from the legislature through a motion in the Bengal Legislative Assembly and distributed it to Chittagong.<ref name="a" /> He was a member of various industrial, business and other organizations in Bengal and held important positions. He was the Commissioner of Chittagong Municipality, a member of the General Hospital and Medical School, a director of the Deshpriya Sugar Mill, Calcutta and the Indo-Burma Traders Bank.<ref name="a" />

== Death ==
He died on 13 April 1962 in [[East Pakistan]].<ref name="n" />

== References ==
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