Kalparanjan Chakma | |
Native Name: | কল্পরঞ্জন চাকমা |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs |
Primeminister: | Sheikh Hasina |
Term Start: | 1 January 1998 |
Term End: | 15 July 2001 |
Predecessor: | Position established |
Successor: | Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing |
Office1: | Member of Parliament |
Constituency1: | Khagrachari |
Term Start1: | 12 June 1996 |
Term End1: | 15 July 2001 |
Predecessor1: | Wadud Bhuiyan |
Successor1: | Wadud Bhuiyan |
Constituency2: | Khagrachari |
Predecessor2: | A. K. M. Alim Ullah |
Successor2: | Wadud Bhuiyan |
Term Start2: | 27 February 1991 |
Term End2: | 15 February 1996 |
Birth Date: | 13 January 1922 |
Birth Place: | Taraboniya, Khagrachhari District, Chittagong Hill Tracts |
Death Place: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami League |
Nationality: | Bangladeshi |
Kalparanjan Chakma (13 January 1922[1] – 25 July 2018) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a Minister of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs.[2] [3] He helped negotiate the release of two Danes and a Briton kidnapped by Shanti Bahini members in Chittagong Hill Tracts.[4]
A tribal leader[5] and a former M.P. from Khagrachari,[6] he died on 25 July 2018 in Dhaka.[7]