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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{infobox officeholder
| name = Rashed Khan Menon
| native_name = রাশেদ খান মেনন
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = Rashed Khan Menon (01).jpg
| caption = Menon in 2020
| constituency_MP = [[Dhaka-8]]
| term_start = 25 January 2009
| predecessor = [[Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu]]
| office1 = [[Ministry of Social Welfare (Bangladesh)|Minister of Social Welfare]]
| term_start1 = 3 January 2018
| term_end1 = 7 January 2019
| successor1 = [[Nuruzzaman Ahmed]]
| office2 = [[Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism|Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism]]
| term_start2 = 14 January 2014
| term_end2 = 3 January 2018
| predecessor2 = [[Faruk Khan]]
| successor2 = [[A.K.M. Shahjahan Kamal]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/country/menon-being-replaced-kamal-cabinet-1514311|title=Menon being replaced by Kamal at cabinet|date=2018-01-03|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-01-03}}</ref>
| constituency_MP3 = [[Barisal-2]]
| term_start3 = 5 March 1991
| term_end3 = 24 November 1995
| predecessor3 = Syed Azizul Haque
| successor3 = [[Golam Faruque Ovi]]
| constituency_MP4 = Bakerganj-9
| term_start4 = 2 April 1979
| term_end4 = 24 March 1982<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-2nd-parliament-members-bangla?csrt=11330329867100961600|title=List of 2nd Parliament Members|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=2020-04-04}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|5|18|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| nationality = Bangladeshi
| spouse = [[Lutfun Nessa Khan]]
| party = [[Workers Party of Bangladesh]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Dhaka]]
| occupation = Politician
| father = [[Abdul Jabbar Khan]]
| relatives = {{unbulleted list|[[Sadek Khan]] (brother)|[[A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan|Enayetullah Khan]] (brother)| [[Selima Rahman]] (sister)|[[Abu Zafar Obaidullah]] (brother)}}
}}
'''Rashed Khan Menon''' (born 18 May 1943)<ref name="me">{{cite news |title=Rashed Khan Menon steps into 65 |url=http://www.newagebd.com/2008/may/18/met.html |newspaper=New Age |location=Dhaka |access-date=2010-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127035357/http://www.newagebd.com/2008/may/18/met.html |archive-date=2019-01-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref> is a Bangladeshi politician. He is the president of [[Workers Party of Bangladesh]] and was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for [[Dhaka-8]] in the [[2008 Bangladeshi general election|2008 general election]]. Menon was re-elected at the [[2014 Bangladeshi general election|2014 general elections]]. He is the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Education.<ref>{{cite news |title=Menon for edn system without discrimination |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=96535 |newspaper=The Daily Star |agency=BSS |date=11 July 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/frontpage/council-ministers-reshuffle-comes-surprises-1514674|title=Council of Ministers: Surprises in reshuffle|date=2018-01-04|work=The Daily Star|access-date=2018-01-03}}</ref> Earlier, he served as the [[Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism|Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Hawkers greet Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon |url=http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=382777&date=2014-01-13 |newspaper=Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha |date=13 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229112213/http://www.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=382777&date=2014-01-13 |archive-date=2017-12-29}}</ref>

==Early life==
Menon was born in [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]]. He studied at Dhaka Collegiate School, finish in 1958. In 1960, he passed intermediate in arts group from Dhaka College. He graduated from Dhaka University in 1963 with a degree in economics. In 1964, he received his master's degree.<ref name="me"/>

In the late 1960s, Menon was president of the [[Bangladesh Students Union|East Pakistan Students Union]] faction linked to the [[National Awami Party]] of [[Maulana Bhasani]]. However, he differed with Maulana Bhasani when the latter accepted participation in elections in January 1970. Menon's East Pakistan Student Union launched a campaign against elections, stating that they would be merely a facade of democracy, that fair elections could not be held under [[martial law]] and that the situation was ripe for revolution.<ref>{{cite book |last=Singh |first=Nagendra Kr. |date=2003 |title=Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh (Set of 30 Vols.) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=59rzjgk4430C |publisher=Anmol Publications Pvt. Limited |pages=19, 22, 42, 44, 168 |isbn=978-81-261-1390-3}}</ref> He built a revolutionary [[Maoist]] organisation along with [[Kazi Zafar Ahmed]]. The Menon-Zafar group built a base in [[Khulna]] (in Begerhat), amongst workers near [[Dacca]] and had a student group named Revolutionary Students Union.<ref>{{cite book |last=Singh |first=Nagendra Kr. |date=2003 |title=Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh (Set of 30 Vols.) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=59rzjgk4430C |publisher=Anmol Publications Pvt. Limited |pages=48–49 |isbn=978-81-261-1390-3}}</ref>

Menon contested the [[1973 Bangladeshi general election|1973 Bangladeshi parliamentary election]] as a NAP (Bhasani) candidate. He did not win any seat, and afterward he complained that the [[Awami League]] government had used unfair methods to win the election.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Jahan |first=Rounaq |date=February 1974 |title=Bangladesh in 1973: Management of Factional Politics |journal=Asian Survey |publisher=University of California Press |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=125–135 |doi=10.2307/2643085 |jstor=2643085}}</ref>

==Career==
[[File:Rashidkhanmenon (67).JPG|thumb|left|Menon at an opposition rally in [[Dhaka]], 2005]]
Menon was elected to parliament in 1979. In 1990, he played a leading role in the mass struggle that toppled the [[Hossain Mohammad Ershad]] regime. In 1991, he was again elected to parliament.<ref name="me"/> In 1991, he, as a Workers Party of Bangladesh parliamentarian, submitted four demands for constitutional amendments in the parliament. These demands and others were submitted to a 15-member constitutional review committee, in which he was included. After 29 meetings, the committee submitted a unanimous report to the parliament.<ref>{{cite book |last=Singh |first=Nagendra Kr. |date=2003 |title=Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh (Set of 30 Vols.) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=59rzjgk4430C |publisher=Anmol Publications Pvt. Limited |page=52 |isbn=978-81-261-1390-3}}</ref>

On 17 August 1992, Menon survived a violent near-fatal attack. Unidentified assailants opened fire on the Workers Party office, injuring Menon.

==Family==
Menon's father, [[Abdul Jabbar Khan]], hailed from Khudrakathi village, in [[Babuganj Upazila]], [[Barisal]].<ref name="me"/> Menon is closely related to several prominent Bangladeshi personalities. His father was the speaker of the [[Pakistani National Assembly]]. His siblings include journalist and columnist Sadek Khan, architect Sultan M. Khan, Alan Khan, a photographer in Sydney, poet [[Abu Zafar Obaidullah]], former minister [[Selima Rahman]], journalist and ambassador to Burma [[A.Z.M. Enayetullah Khan]] and the publisher of ''[[New Age (Bangladesh)|New Age]]'' Shahidullah Khan Badal.<ref>{{cite news |last=Halim |first=Anwar Parvez |date=19 March 2009 |title=All in the family |url=http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5384 |newspaper=Probe News Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100404070230/http://www.probenewsmagazine.com/index.php?index=2&contentId=5384 |archive-date=2010-04-04}}</ref>

Menon is married to [[Lutfun Nessa Khan]].<ref name="me"/> She is elected as a [[Jatiya Sangsad]] member at the [[2018 Bangladeshi general election|11th Parliament]] from the [[List of members of the 11th Jatiya Sangsad|reserved women's seat-48]] representing the [[Workers Party of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://samakal.com/bangladesh/article/19021173/নারী-আসনে-৪৯-জন-বিনা-প্রতিদ্বন্দ্বিতায়-নির্বাচিত|script-title=bn:সংরক্ষিত নারী আসনে ৪৯ জন বিনা প্রতিদ্বন্দ্বিতায় নির্বাচিত|website=Samakal|language=bn|access-date=2019-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/current-mp-s/list-of-11th-parliament-members-english?layout=edit&id=4324|title=Constituency 348_11th_En|website=Bangladesh Parliament|access-date=2019-07-22}}</ref>

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