AFM Bahauddin Nasim is a

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politician and current joint secretary of the party. He is a former

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member representing the

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constituency.

Early life

Nasim has a Bachelor of Science degree from

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. His paternal grandmother was a sister of

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(father of

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), making Mujib his uncle and

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his second cousin.

Career

Nasim started his political career by joining the

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. He was president and secretary of the

unit of the Bangladesh Chhatra League. In 1981, he became president of the

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unit of the Bangladesh Chhatra League. He was the president of the

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. He was an assistant personal secretary of Prime Minister

in the 1996-2001 period. He was elected to parliament in 2014 from Madaripur-3 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. In 2017, he was acquitted in a corruption case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission. He was a member of the treasury bench of the Parliament of Bangladesh. He is now joint general secretary of the

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Personal life

Nasim was born on 11 November 1961 in

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. Nasim is married to Sultana Shamima Chowdhury.

References

Living people 1961 births Awami League politicians 10th Jatiya Sangsad members 12th Jatiya Sangsad members People from Madaripur District {{Dhaka-AL-politician-stub