Zahir Uddin Swapan | |
Office: | Member of Parliament Barisal-1 |
Predecessor: | Abul Hasanat Abdullah |
Successor: | Talukder Md.Yunus |
Birth Place: | Sarikal village, Gournadi Upazila, Barisal |
Party: | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Termstart: | 27 October 2006 |
Termend: | 1 October 2001 |
Termstart1: | 15 February 1996 |
Termend1: | 12 June 1996 |
Predecessor2: | Abul Hasanat Abdullah |
Successor1: | Abul Hasanat Abdullah |
Zahir Uddin Swapan is a Bangladeshi politician who is a former member of parliament from the Barisal-1 constituency।[1] He is the convener of the media cell of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.[2]
Swapan was born in Sarikal village of Gournadi Upazila in Barisal.[3]
Swapan was elected member of parliament from Barisal-1 on 15 February 1996 as a candidate of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the sixth National Parliament election.[4] He was also elected member of parliament from Barisal-1 as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the 2001 eighth National Parliament election.[5] [6] He is the former central president of Bangladesh Chhatra Maitri.
He is the convener of the media cell of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He is the chief editor of BNP Communication Cell and director of Bangladesh Nationalist Research and Communication (BNRC).
He was defeated from Barisal-1 as a candidate of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the 2008 Ninth National Assembly Elections.[7]