Faruk Rashid Chowdhury is a Jatiya Party politician from Bangladesh and the former Minister of Finance.

Early life and background

Choudhury was born into a Bengali Muslim political family in Rashid Manzil near Dargah Gate,

Sylhet Sylhet ( bn, সিলেট) is a metropolitan city in northeastern Bangladesh. It is the administrative seat of the Sylhet Division. Located on the north bank of the Surma River at the eastern tip of Bengal, Sylhet has a subtropical climate an ...

. His ancestral home is in Dargapasha, Sunamganj District. He was one of seven children of Abdur Rasheed Choudhury (d. 1944) and

Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury ( bn, বেগম সিরাজুন্নেসা চৌধুরী) was a Member of the 3rd National Assembly of Pakistan as a representative of East Pakistan. Early life and family Choudhury was born in 1910, ...

(1910–1974), and a younger brother of Humayun Rashid Choudhury. Abdur Rasheed was a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly and later a member of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi, while Serajunessa was elected a member of Pakistan National Assembly.

Political career

Chowdhury participated in a 1987 by-election as a Communist Party candidate and successfully won the

Sunamganj-3 Sunamganj-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by M. A. Mannan of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Shantiganj and Jagannathpur upazilas. History The c ...

constituency seat at the 3rd Jatiya Sangsad. He did a second term in the same constituency after winning the

1988 Bangladeshi general election General elections were held in Bangladesh on 3 March 1988. They were boycotted by several major parties, including the Bangladesh Awami League, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the Communist Party of Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, the ...

as a Jatiya Party candidate. Chowdhury lost his seat to Abdus Samad Azad of the

Awami League In Urdu language, Awami is the adjectival form for '' Awam'', the Urdu language word for common people. The adjective appears in the following proper names: *Awami Colony, a neighbourhood of Landhi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan *Awami Front, wa ...

at the

1991 Bangladeshi general election General elections were held in Bangladesh on 27 February 1991. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) emerged as the largest party in parliament, winning 140 of the 300 directly-elected seats. The BNP formed a government with the support of the I ...

. He attempted to regain the seat at the June 1996 Bangladeshi general elections but lost to Azad once again.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chowdhury, Faruk Rashud Living people People from Dakshin Sunamganj Upazila Politicians from Sylhet Division Jatiya Party politicians Communist Party of Bangladesh politicians 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members 4th Jatiya Sangsad members 1932 births