Faizul Hasan () was a

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politician.

Biography

Hasan was born into a

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family from Daubari in Gowainghat,

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. He was successful in a 1956 by-election for the

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. Hasan participated in the

1973 Bangladeshi general election General elections were held in newly independent Bangladesh on 7 March 1973. A total of 1,078 candidates and 14 political parties contested the elections. Though the Awami League was already the clear favourite before the elections, the governme ...

as a

National Awami Party The National Awami Party (NAP) was the major left-wing political party in East and West Pakistan. It was founded in 1957 in Dhaka, erstwhile East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Yar Mohammad Khan, through th ...

candidate but reached third place, losing to Habibur Rahman of the

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References

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