AKM Jahangir Hossain | |
Native Name: | আ খ ম জাহাঙ্গীর হোসাইন |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | State Minister of Textiles |
Term Start: | 1 January 1998 |
Term End: | 15 July 2001 |
Successor: | Ministry merged |
Constituency Mp1: | Patuakhali-3 |
Term Start1: | 29 January 2014 |
Term End1: | 29 October 2018 |
Successor1: | SM Shahjada |
Term Start2: | 14 July 1996 |
Term End2: | 27 October 2006 |
Successor2: | Golam Maula Rony |
Term Start3: | 5 March 1991 |
Term End3: | 24 November 1995 |
Predecessor3: | Mohammad Yakub Ali Chowdhury |
Successor3: | Shajahan Khan |
Death Place: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami League |
AKM Jahangir Hossain (1954 – 24 December 2020)[1] was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a four-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Patuakhali-3 constituency.[2]
Hossain was elected to parliament from Patuakhali-3 in 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2014 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. He was made the state minister of textiles in 1998 in the first Hasina cabinet.[3] He did not receive the nomination for 2008 general election from Bangladesh Awami League for his support of reforms in the league during the 2006–08 Bangladeshi political crisis. The nomination went to Golam Maula Rony.[4] In 2013, he was removed from all committees of Bangladesh Awami League.[5]
Hossain died from COVID-19 complications during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh on 24 December 2020, at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital in Dhaka.[1]