Khurram Khan Chowdhury (1945/6 – 17 July 2021) was a Bangladeshi politician who served four terms in parliament. Initially elected as a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), he resigned from the BNP, joined the Jatiya Party, and later returned to the BNP.

Early life and family

Khurram Khan Chowdhury was born into the Bengali Muslim ''

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- Chowdhury'' family of Nandail in

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. His father, Ashraf Hossain Khan Chowdhury, was the ''

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'' of Nandail, the former vice-president of the Central Muslim League and a cousin of former president

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. His elder brother is Anwarul Hossain Khan Chowdhury and his sister-in-law, Begum Rahat, was the sister of former education minister

ASHK Sadek ASHK Sadek (30 April 1934 – 9 September 2007) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician, who was a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jessore-6 constituency, and a former Education Minister of Bangladesh. Early life Sadek was born on 30 A ...

and daughter of Yahya Sadeq, former joint-commissioner of the Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Career

Choudhury was a founding member of the Jatiya Party. He was elected member of parliament for Jatiya Party and BNP candidates at different times. Chowdhury left the BNP to contest the 1988 general election as a Jatiya Party candidate, and was elected for

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. At the next election, in 1991, he was elected member of parliament for Mymensingh-8. He rejoined the BNP, and was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-9 in 2001. Chowdhury died from complications of COVID-19 on 17 July 2021 in

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at age 75 during the

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References

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