Andaleeve Rahman Partho (born 20 April 1974) is the president of the

Bangladesh Jatiya Party The Bangladesh Jatiya Party is a political party in Bangladesh. It is a splinter group of the original Jatiya Party, that was founded by the former President of Bangladesh Hossain Mohammad Ershad. It was previously known as Jatiya Party (Naz ...

, a

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and the principal of British School of Law in

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Early life

Andaleeve Rahman was born on 20 April 1974 in

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. His father, Naziur Rahman Manzur, was a politician and former minister who served as the founding chairman of the

and as the Mayor of Dhaka. They belonged to a

Bengali Muslim Bengali Muslims ( bn, বাঙালি মুসলমান; ) are adherents of Islam who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis. Comprising about two-thirds of the global Bengali population, they are the sec ...

family known as the

Taluqdar Taluqdars or Talukdar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: ; Perso-Arabic: , ; from ''taluq'' "estate/attachment" + '' dar'' "owner"), were aristocrats who formed the ruling class during the Delhi Sultanate, Bengal Sultanate, Mughal Empire and British Raj ...

s of Balia in

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. Through his paternal grandfather Bazlur Rahman Taluqdar, Andaleeve Rahman was a direct descendant of Munga Khan, an eighteenth-century who arrived in Bengal from

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who settled in the village of Saluka in greater Barisal. Khan's son, Shaykh Muhammad, served as a revenue officer for the

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, earning the title of '' shiqdar'' and receiving a ''kharija''

taluq A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

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's Balia and Gazaria areas, where the family established themselves as ''taluqdars''. Andaleeve Rahman's mother Sheikh Reba was the niece of

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ( bn, শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান; 17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), often shortened as Sheikh Mujib or Mujib and widely known as Bangabandhu (meaning ''Friend of Bengal''), was a Bengali politi ...

, and through her grandfather Sheikh Lutfar Rahman, Andaleeve was a direct descendant of the 15th-century Iraqi

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Muslim preacher Sheikh Awwal of

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. His paternal uncle, Dr. Azizur Rahman, is a notable scientist.

Education

Andaleeve was a student at St. Joseph High School and later at Government Laboratory High School before moving to

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to earn his

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degree.

Career

Rahman passed the Bar Examination at Lincoln's Inn in the 5th. He then returned to the country and joined as an apprentice under the supervision of Barrister Rafiqul Haque and worked with him for five years. He is currently working as a lawyer in Dhaka and serves as principal of the British School of Law in Dhaka. Rahman has been actively involved in politics with his father, Najiur Rahman Manju, for over 25 years. When his father died on 27 April, Andalib was elected chairman of the

. In the ninth parliamentary election of the 24th,

Bhola-1 Bhola-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Tofail Ahmed of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Bhola Sadar Upazila. History The constituency was crea ...

was elected as a candidate for the four-party alliance, and Awami League candidate Yusuf Hossain defeated Humayun and won. His party boycotted the election under the leadership of the BNP in the election of 2014. He became a candidate for the unity front and the 25-party alliance in the Dhaka-1 constituency in the 11th parliamentary elections. He collected nomination papers in

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and

Bhola-3 Bhola-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2010 by Nurunnabi Chowdhury of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Lalmohan Upazila, Lalmohan and Tazumuddin Upazila, Ta ...

seats.

Early life

Education

Career

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