Sirajul Hossain Khan (1926–2007) was a Jatiya Party politician, government minister, and member of parliament for

Habiganj-2 Habiganj-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Ajmiriganj and Baniachong upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from a Sylhet cons ...

Early life

Khan was born on 17 July 1926, in Baniachong village,

Baniachong Upazila Baniachong (), is a village and upazila of Habiganj District in Sylhet Division, Bangladesh. History Baniachong constituted the grand estate (zamindari) of Anwar Khan, who was looked upon as a raja by the local people. Estate of Baniachong was ...

, Habiganj subdivision, Sylhet district (of Assam), British Raj.

Career

Khan served in the Bangladesh Liberation War in the Bangladesh Muktijuddha Samannay Parishad. He was elected to the parliament from Habiganj-2 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986 and 1988 and was a cabinet minister (1985–1990). He served as the bureau chief of the ''

Pakistan Times ''The Pakistan Times'' (1947–1996) was a Pakistani newspaper, established by Mian Itikharuddin and Faiz Ahmed Faiz through the leftist Progressive Papers Limited. Its headquarters was in Lahore, Pakistan. Later, it started another edition fr ...

'' in Dacca and was the founder editor of the Eastern News Agency (ENA). He was a trade unionist who served as the general secretary of the East Pakistan Journalists Union and the Bangladesh Sramik Federation.

Death

Khan died in Dhaka on 17 February 2007.

References

Jatiya Party politicians 2007 deaths 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members 1927 births People from Baniachong Upazila Politicians from Sylhet Division {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub