Shamsul Alam Pramanik ( – 30 January 2023) was a Bangladeshi

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politician who was a member of parliament for Naogaon-4.

Career

Pramanik was elected to parliament from Naogaon-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1996 and 2001. He had faced accusations of supporting

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, an Islamist terrorist, and his extremist organisation. He was sued by the government of Bangladesh for providing financial support to

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, an extremist terrorist organisation, in 2008.

Death

Pramanik died from complications of diabetes on 30 January 2023, at the age of 70.

References

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