Abdur Rouf Chowdhury Explained

Abdur Rouf Chowdhury
Office:	Member of Parliament (Bangladesh)
Term Start:	27 February 1991
Term End:	15 February 1996
Predecessor:	Ahsan Habib Lincoin
Successor:	Shahidul Islam
Term Start1:	7 March 1973
Term End1:	18 February 1979
Successor1:	Zillur Rahman
Death Date:	23 July 2014
Death Place:	Dhaka
Party:	Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Abdur Rouf Chowdhury was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician who was a member of parliament for Kushtia-2.

Career

Chowdhury was a veteran of Bangladesh Liberation War.^[1]

Chowdhury was elected to parliament from Kushtia-2 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973.^[2] ^[3] He was elected in 1991 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate from Kushtia-3.^[4]

Chowdhury refused to participate in the February 1996 election due to no party other than Bangladesh Nationalist Party contesting the election. The nomination went to Shahidul Islam.

Chowdhury died on 23 July 2014 in Dhaka.^[5]

His son, barrister Raghib Rauf Chowdhury, is the office secretary of the Lawyers unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.^[6]

Notes and References

News: Ex-BNP MP in Kushtia faces seven cases . 2022-10-30 . The Daily Star.
Web site: List of 1st Parliament Members . Bangladesh Parliament . bn . 12 April 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180909153327/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp/1st.pdf . 9 September 2018.
Book: Bangladesh . 1974 . Embassy of Bangladesh . 4 . en.
Web site: Electoral Area Result Statistics . Amarmp . 3 May 2020 . en.
News: bn:সাবেক সাংসদ আবদুর রউফের ইন্তেকাল . https://www.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95-%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%A6-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2 . Prothom Alo . 25 July 2014 . bn.
News: Kushtia 2 constituency: Multiple candidates in ruling, opposition alliances . 3 May 2020 . Dhaka Tribune . 30 September 2018.