Hashibur Rahman Swapon (16 May 1954 – 2 September 2021) was a

Bangladesh Awami League Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

politician who served as

Jatiya Sangsad The Jatiya Sangsad ( bn, জাতীয় সংসদ, lit=National Parliament, translit=Jatiyô Sôngsôd), often referred to simply as the ''Sangsad'' or JS and also known as the House of the Nation, is the supreme legislative body of ...

member from the

Sirajganj-6 Sirajganj-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2021 by Merina Jahan Kabita of the Awami League. Boundaries Sirajganj-6 constituency consists of Shahjadpur Upazila of Sirajganj district. ...

and Sirajganj-7 constituencies.

Early life and education

Swapon was born on 16 June 1954, in Dwariyapur in Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj district. Swapon had studied up to H.S.C. or grade 12.

Career

Swapon was first elected to

as a member of the

Bangladesh Nationalist Party The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and one of the major ...

representing the now-defunct Sirajganj-7 constituency. He lost the position when he switched to

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party in 1998. Swapon was later elected to the parliament from

on 5 January 2014 as an Awami League candidate. He was warned on 24 December 2015 by

Bangladesh Election Commission The Bangladesh Election Commission ( bn, বাংলাদেশ নির্বাচন কমিশন), abbreviated and publicly referred to as EC, is an independent constitutional body that operates the legal functions of election laws i ...

for violating the electoral code. He was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food Ministry.

Death

Swapon died from

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at a hospital in Turkey on 2 September 2021.

References

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