Muhammad Shahrin Islam Chowdhury (), also known by his

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Tuhin (), is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and former member of parliament for

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. He is the nephew of former

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Early life and family

Shahrin Islam Tuhin was born in

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, to a

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family. His ancestral home is in the village of Gomnati,

Domar In Norse mythology, the Swedish king Domar (Old Norse ''Dómarr'', "Judge"McKinnell (2005:70).) of the House of Ynglings was the son of Domalde. He was married to Drott, the sister of Dan the Arrogant who gave his names to the Danes. Drott and ...

Nilphamari District Nilphamari District () is a district in Northern Bangladesh. It is a part of Rangpur Division. It is about 400 kilometers to the northwest of the capital Dhaka. It has an area of . Nilphamari is bounded by Rangpur and Lalmonirhat in east, ...

. His father, Rafiqul Islam Chowdhury, was a professor of economics and dean at the

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and the former VC of

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. Tuhin's mother, Selima Islam, is the eldest sister of former

and the descendant of Murad Khan, a 16th-century Middle Eastern immigrant.

Career

Tuhin formerly served as the president of the Nilphamari District branch of the

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, a political party founded by President

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, the husband of his maternal aunt. He took part in the

February 1996 Bangladeshi general election General elections were held in Bangladesh on 15 February 1996. They were boycotted by most opposition parties, and saw voter turnout drop to just 15%.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, V ...

as a

candidate, and successfully won a seat in parliament for the

constituency. He also competed in the elections of June 1996 and

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, but was unable to win a seat in either. In 2016, Tuhin was made a member of the executive committee in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Tuhin with his followers-2025

He was sent to jail on 29 April 2025 after his surrender on the same day before two separate Dhaka courts in two cases in which he was sentenced to 21 years in prison. The High Court has granted bail to him on 8 May 2025, who was convicted in two separate cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in 2007 during the time of the caretaker government.

References

Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people 6th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) People from Nilphamari District Politicians from Rangpur Division 21st-century Bengalis Majumder–Zia family {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub