Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury | |
Native Name: | খালিদ মাহমুদ চৌধুরী |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Office: | Minister of State for Shipping |
Term Start: | 11 January 2024 |
Term End: | 6 August 2024 |
Primeminister: | Sheikh Hasina |
Predecessor: | M. A. Matin |
Successor: | M Sakhawat Hussain (as Adviser) |
Office1: | Member of Parliament |
Constituency1: | Dinajpur-2 |
Parliament1: | Bangladesh |
Predecessor1: | Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman |
Term Start1: | 29 December 2008 |
Term End1: | 6 August 2024 |
Birth Date: | 31 January 1970 |
Birth Place: | Dinajpur, East Pakistan |
Party: | Bangladesh Awami League |
Spouse: | Mosammat Rashidun Ara Hasnin |
Father: | Abdur Rauf Chowdhury |
Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury (born 1 January 1970)[1] is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former member of parliament representing the Dinajpur-2 constituency. He is served as the minister of state for shipping of Bangladesh.[2] He was a organizational secretary of Bangladesh Awami League.
Chowdhury was born on 31 January 1970. He has a bachelor's degree in commerce.[1]
Chowdhury was elected to parliament from Dinajpur-2 in 2008, 2014, 2018 and 2024 for four consecutive times.[1] He is the organizing secretary of the Bangladesh Awami League. In September 2018, he asked people in the region not to worry about the National Register of Citizens, being carried out in India. He said this while on a trip to India.[3] He was named state minister of shipping on 6 January 2019 in the 4th cabinet of Sheikh Hasina.[4]
On 17 August 2024, Chowdhury was charged over an attack on a student protest during the quota reform movement on 18 July.[5]