Syed Rahmatur Rub Irtiza Ahsan was a

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politician and a former member of parliament for

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Early life and family

Syed Rahmatur Rub Irtiza Ahsan was born on 7 May 1937, to a

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'' family known as the ''

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of Bamna'' based in

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, then located under the

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of the

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. His father, Syed Najmul Ahsan, was the son of Syed Abi Muhammad (d. 1951) and they traced their ancestry to Syed Mir Qadir Bakhsh, who belonged to the

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family of Malidia in Faridpur. Irtiza Ahsan's great grandfather, Syed Mir Sarwar Jan (d. 1914), who was Bakhsh's son, migrated to Bamna in greater Barisal after marrying Azizunnesa, the daughter of Taluqdar Husayn ad-Din Chowdhury, and eventually inheriting the

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dari of Ramna-Bamna. Ahsan's uncle Syed Ziaul Ahsan, was a speaker for the

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during the

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regime and married to Syeda Shaukat Ara Begum, the daughter of Syed Abdul Jabbar, a ''zamindar'' of

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. His other uncle Syed Moinul Ahsan, was the vice-principal of

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and the father of former secretariat Shamim Ahsan. Ahsan's youngest uncle, Syed Qamarul Ahsan, was a former parliamentarian.

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, the incumbent deputy leader of the

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, is the daughter of Najmul Ahsan's cousin Syed Shah Hamidullah.

Career

During the

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of 1971, Ahsan was the chairman of Bamna Union. Ahsan was elected to parliament from the new

constituency (formerly part of Patuakhali-1) as a

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candidate in 1986. He contested the 1991 election as a candidate of National Democratic Party but lost to independent candidate Nurul Islam Moni.

References

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