Sirajul Islam Chowdhury (politician)
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Sirajul Islam Chowdhury () is a
Jatiya Party (Ershad) The Jatiya Party (, ; JaPa or JP(E)) is a political party of Bangladesh. The current chairman of the party is Ghulam Muhammed Quader. On 3 January 2019, the party announced its decision to join the Bangladesh Awami League-led Grand Alliance a ...
politician, former student activist, social worker, and a former member of parliament for Chittagong-11.


Career

Chowdhury was a revolutionary student activist of Chittagong who led the protests against the Pakistani ruling elite in the sixties along with many others. After the War of Independence, he cofounded Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatradal and was the founding convenor of Chittagong University Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatradal Unit. Chowdhury is also a social reformer and co-founded the non-governmental organization NOWZUWAN in 1977. NOWZUWAN was one of the three non-government organisations to sign 'Grant Contracts' with Japanese Ambassador ITO Naoki under the Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGHSP) in March 2022. Chowdhury was elected to parliament from Chittagong-11 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1988. He's a member of the Jatiya Party and advisory council. He was among 20 candidates who boycotted the 2014 parliamentary elections during the early hours, after alleging vote rigging and election interferences by agents of a rival candidate.


References

Jatiya Party politicians Living people 4th Jatiya Sangsad members Pakistani MNAs 1965–1969 Year of birth missing (living people) {{Chittagong-politician-stub