Israfil Alam (13 March 1966 – 27 July 2020) 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 and a 3-term

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 representing the

Naogaon-6 Naogaon-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since October 2020 by Anwar Hossain Helal of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Atrai Upazila, Atrai and Raninagar Upazila, ...

constituency.

Career

Alam at one point worked as a meter reader for the

Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company The Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company ( bn, তিতাস গ্যাস ''Titas Gas'') is the natural gas distributor in Bangladesh, with an 80% market share. As of 2020, they employed 2,100 staff and served 2.8 million domesti ...

. He was elected to the parliament from

in 2008 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. Alam after being elected was accused of supporting labor unrest in Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company and trying to establish supremacy of Titas Gas Sramik League, the pro-Awami League labour body of the company. He was the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the Labour and Employment Ministry. He was chairman of board of trustees in

Atish Dipankar University of Science and Technology Atish Dipankar University of Science & Technology ( bn, অতীশ দীপঙ্কর বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়), abbreviated as ADUST, is a private university in Uttara, ...

Death

Alam died from

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...

complications at

Square Hospital Square Hospital is a private hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is one of three high-end private hospital in Bangladesh, the other being Apollo Hospital Dhaka and United Hospital, Dhaka. Tapan Chowdhury is the managing director of the hospital. ...

in Dhaka on 27 July 2020, during the

COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh The COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Bangladesh in March 2020. The first ...

References

1966 births 2020 deaths People from Naogaon District Politicians from Rajshahi Division Awami League politicians 9th Jatiya Sangsad members 10th Jatiya Sangsad members 11th Jatiya Sangsad members Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub