Masuda M Rashid Chowdhury (22 July 1951 – 13 September 2021) was a

Jatiya Party (Ershad) The Jatiya Party (, ; JaPa or JP(E)) is a political party of Bangladesh. The current chairman of the party is Ghulam Muhammed Quader. On 3 January 2019, the party announced its decision to join the Bangladesh Awami League-led Grand Alliance a ...

politician and a

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member from a reserved seat during 2019–2021.

Career

Chowdhury was a faculty member at the department of sociology of the

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. She was elected to the parliament from a reserved seat as a Jatiya Party (Ershad) candidate in February 2019. In June, the then chairperson of the party,

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had temporarily suspended her from the party which was reinstated two months later by the new chairperson

GM Quader Ghulam Muhammed Quader (born 24 February 1948), better known as GM Quader, is a Bangladeshi politician and the 2nd chairperson of Jatiya Party (Ershad), Jatiya Party and was the Opposition Leader of Bangladesh Parliament. He is a former Jatiya Sa ...

Personal life

Chowdhury was married to A.B.M. Fazle Rashid Chowdhury Hiru, son of AKM Fazlul Kabir Chowdhury.

Death

Chowdhury died on 13 September 2021 at the age of 70 at the BIRDEM hospital in

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References

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