Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito (1 March 1945 – 10 January 2021) was a Bangladeshi politician. He served as a

Jatiya Sangsad The Jatiya Sangsad (), often simply referred to as Sangsad and also known as is the unicameral Legislature, legislative body of Bangladesh. The current parliament of Bangladesh contains 350 seats, including 50 seats reserved exclusively for w ...

member as a Jatiya Party member during 1986–1988 and a

Bangladesh Awami League The Awami League, officially known as Bangladesh Awami League, is a major List of political parties in Bangladesh, political party in Bangladesh. The oldest existing political party in the country, the party played the leading role in achievin ...

member during 2009–2013 representing the

Jessore-3 Jessore-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 the constituency is vacant. Boundaries The constituency encompasses all but one union parishad of Jessore Sadar Upazila: Basu ...

constituency.

Early life

Tito passed his matriculation in 1960 and intermediate exams in 1963 from Quaid e Azam College (now

Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College () is a public college in Luxmibazar near Bahadurshah Park of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. It offers higher-secondary education ( HSC), bachelor's degree and master's degree programs that were affiliated to the ...

) in

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in the then

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. He then graduated from

Michael Madhusudan College Michael Madhusudan College (), in Jessore District, is one of the largest educational institutions in Khulna Division, Bangladesh. The college is named after famed educationalist and intellectual Michael Madhusudan Dutt. It has about 26,000 stu ...

Jessore Jessore (, ), officially Jashore, is a city of Jessore District in Khulna Division. It lies in southwestern Bangladesh. It is home to the first flight training school of the Bangladeshi Air Force, established in 1971. Jessore city consists of 9 wa ...

in 1967 from jail. Tito joined politics at Chhatra Union in Michael Madhusudan College in 1963. He then got involved with left-leaning workers' politics in 1967.

Career

Tito was elected Jessore municipality chairman in 1984 and was elected a member of

from Jatiya Party in 1986. Next year, he took charge as organising secretary of the central Jatiya Party. In 1990, he was appointed as the state minister for Labour and Man Power ministry. After the fall of

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ruling, he was put in jail in 1991. At the end of 1991, Tito was made the secretary general (in charge) of Jatiya Party. Tito joined

on 9 March 2006. He was elected to Parliament from Jessore-3 on 29 December 2008 as a candidate of Bangladesh Awami League. On 22 April 2009 he sued former Minister Tarikul Islam, also publisher of Daily Loksamaj, for defamation. His house in Jessore was attacked in March 2015.

References

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