Abdur Rouf Chowdhury


Abdur Rouf Chowdhury is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Kushtia-2.

Abdur Rouf Chowdhury
Member of Bangladesh Parliament
In office
1973–1979
Succeeded byZillur Rahman
Personal details
Political partyBangladesh Nationalist Party

CareerEdit

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.[5] The nomination went to Shahidul Islam.[6]

His son, barrister Raghib Rauf Chowdhury, is the Office Secretary of the Lawyers unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[7]

ReferencesEdit

  1. "Ex-BNP MP in Kushtia faces seven cases". archive.thedailystar.net. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  2. "List of 1st Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  3. Bangladesh. Embassy of Bangladesh. 1974. p. 4.
  4. "Electoral Area Result Statistics". Amarmp. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  5. "Ex-BNP MP in Kushtia faces seven cases". archive.thedailystar.net. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  6. "Ex-BNP MP in Kushtia faces seven cases". archive.thedailystar.net. The Daily Star. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
  7. "Kushtia 2 constituency: Multiple candidates in ruling, opposition alliances". Dhaka Tribune. 30 September 2022. Retrieved 3 May 2020.