Alauddin Ahammad | |
Native Name: | আলাউদ্দিন আহম্মদ |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Birth Date: | 1947/1948 |
Death Date: | 13 December 2022 (aged 74) |
Constituency Mp2: | Kishoreganj-1 |
Term Start2: | 1999 |
Term End2: | October 2006 |
Predecessor2: | A. K. M. Shamsul Haque |
Successor2: | M. A. Mannan (neurologist) (boundary Change) |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami League |
Office1: | 5th Vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University |
Term Start1: | 18 July 1998 |
Term End1: | 1999 |
Predecessor1: | Amirul Islam Chowdhury |
Successor1: | Abdul Bayes |
Alauddin Ahammad (1947/1948 – 13 December 2022)[1] was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Kishoreganj-1 constituency.[2] He was a former Vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University.[3] [4]
Ahammad was a veteran of Bangladesh Liberation war.
In 1998, Ahammad resigned after a rape on campus led to mass protests by the students and teachers.[5] [6]
Ahammad was elected to the parliament from Kishoreganj-1 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1999 by-election and 2001.[7]
Ahammad had served as the education and political affairs advisor to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2013.[8]