Muhammad Sayful Alam ( bn, মোঃ ছয়ফুল আলম; 7 March 1934 – 14 January 1997) was a
Bangladeshi
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Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...
politician and teacher. He was a member of the
East Pakistan Legislative Assembly. He had made extensive contributions to the overall development of
Gowainghat Upazila.
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Early life and education
Sayful Alam was born on 7 March 1934, to a Bengali Muslim
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family in Purnanagar, Gowainghat, located in the Sylhet district of the British Raj
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. The family may have originally been from the nearby village of Rautgram in West Alirgaon Union. He passed his Intermediate of Arts in 1954, and earned his Bachelor of Arts
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two years later.
Career
Alam began his career as a teacher at the Gowainghat High School for two years. His entrance to politics started at the Basic Democracy elections held in 1959 under Ayub Khan's military rule. He became a member initially, and then later the uncontested chairman of the constituency. Alam participated in the May 1962 Basic Democracy elections, becoming a member of the East Pakistan Legislative Assembly, representing the PE-113 (Sylhet-IV) constituency.[ According to Ehsanul Haq Jasim, Alam was convicted in a murder case eighteen months later and his seat became void. A by-election was held with Khandakar Abdul Jalil being nominated.]upazila
An ''upazila'' ( bn, উপজেলা, upôzela, lit=sub-district pronounced: ), formerly called ''thana'', is an administrative region in Bangladesh, functioning as a sub-unit of a district. It can be seen as an analogous to a county or a ...
(sub-district) in 1983 as part of the President of Bangladesh Hussain Muhammad Ershad's decentralisation programme and Alam was appointed as the inaugural chairman of the Gowainghat Upazila Council in 1985. Alam was also the elected founding chairman of the undivided Alirgaon Union.[
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Death and legacy
Alam died on 14 January 1967 and was buried in the Purnanagar Graveyard. He had several children including Muazzam Husayn Ripon.
References
People of East Pakistan
People from Gowainghat Upazila
Bengali politicians
20th-century Bengalis
1997 deaths
1934 births
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