AKM Samsuzzoha | |
Native Name: | আবুল খায়ের মোহাম্মদ শামসুজ্জোহা |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | Member of Bangladesh Parliament |
Term Start: | 7 March 1973 |
Term End: | 15 August 1975 |
Constituency: | Dhaka-30 |
Succeeded: | ASM Solomon |
Birth Place: | Narayanganj District, Bengal Presidency, British India |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami League |
Children: | Nasim Osman Salim Osman Shamim Osman |
Alma Mater: | University of Dhaka |
Abul Khayer Mohammad Samsuzzoha (bn|আবুল খায়ের মোহাম্মদ শামসুজ্জোহা; 1924 – 20 February 1987)[1] was a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He was a Member of Parliament from Narayanganj constituency. He received the Independence Day Award in 2011 posthumously from the Government of Bangladesh.[2]
Samsuzzoha was born in 1924 to politician Mohammad Osman Ali and Jamila Osman in Narayanganj, East Pakistan.[1] He belongs to a Bengali Muslim family of Pradhans from Jamalkandi in present-day Comilla. His father was a founding member of the Awami League.[3]
He graduated from the University of Dhaka.[1]
Samsuzzoha was a founding member of Awami Muslim League. He was involved in the Bengali Language Movement of 1952 that demanded Bengali be made a state language of Pakistan.[2] He was elected a member of parliament at the Pakistani general election in 1970 and Bangladeshi general election in 1973.[1]
Samsuzzoha was married to Nagina Zoha.[4] Three of his sons went on to win parliamentary elections – Salim Osman and Nasim Osman were elected from the Jatiya Party, and Shamim Osman is member of Parliament from Bangladesh Awami League.[5]
Samsuzzoha died on 20 February 1987.[6]