Honorific Prefix: | Dr. |
Azad Zaman | |
Native Name: | আজাদ জামান |
Office: | Member of Meghalaya Legislative Assembly |
Term Start: | 2018 |
Term End: | 4 March 2021 |
Constituency: | Rajabala |
Predecessor: | Ashahel D Shira |
Successor: | Muhammad Abdus Saleh |
Birth Date: | 1973/1974 |
Party: | Indian National Congress |
Dr. Azad Zaman (Bengali: আজাদ জামান; 1973/1974 – 4 March 2021) was an Indian Bengali politician, doctor and social worker. He was the former member of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly for the Rajabala constituency in West Garo Hills district.[1]
Azad Zaman was born in 1974, to a Bengali Muslim family in Meghalaya. He was the son of Alhaj Surat Zaman. He was a medical practitioner who later joined the government service. His wife is a teacher by profession,[2] and they lived in Bowabari, PO New Bhaitbari, PS Phulbari in the West Garo Hills.[3]
He competed in the 2013 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election as an independent politician for Rajabala but lost to Ashahel Shira. He later joined the Indian National Congress party,[4] and defeated Shira in the 2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election.[5]
He died on 4 March 2021, due to cardiac arrest, aged 47.[6] He left behind a wife, two daughters and a son.[7]