Abdul Awal Mia Explained

Abdul Awal Mia
Native Name:আব্দুল আউয়াল মিয়া
Office:Member of Bangladesh Parliament
Constituency Mp:Kushtia-4
Term Start:1991
Term End:1996
Predecessor:Nur Alam Ziku
Successor:Shahidullah Khan
Death Date:11 April 2014 (age 71)
Death Place:Moghbazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Party:Bangladesh Awami League
Otherparty:Jatiya Party (Ershad)

Abdul Awal Mia was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and member of parliament of Kushtia-4.

Career

Mia was elected to parliament from Kushtia-4 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1991.[1] The party denied him their nomination in 1996, choosing elder statesman Abul Hossain Tarun instead. Mia worked against Tarun, and the party blamed him for Tarun's narrow loss to Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate Syed Mehedi Ahmed Rumi. Mia left the Awami League in January 2001. He joined the Jatiya Party (Ershad), and contested the seat again in 2008,[2] but finished a distant third.

Death

Mia died on 11 April 2014 in Moghbazar, Dhaka, Bangladesh from liver cancer.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Parliament Election Result of 1991, 1996, 2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics . Vote Monitor Networks . 11 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20081229003027/http://votemonitor.net/bangladesh/EADetails_1991_1996_2001.php?EA=78 . 29 December 2008 . dead.
  2. News: Aman . Amanur . 17 December 2008 . Grand alliance to face hurdles in Kushtia-2, 4 . The Daily Star.
  3. News: Former MP Abdul Awal Mia dies . 1 November 2019 . Dhaka Tribune . 11 April 2014.