Sheikh Nizamul Islam is a Bangladeshi politician and former

member of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

. He was elected from

Tangail-1 Tangail-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2001 by Abdur Razzak of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Dhanbari Dhanbari ( bn, ধনবাড়ী) is a ...

(Madhupur and Dhanbari) constituency as an

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candidate in the third Bangladeshi parliamentary election held on 7 May 1986. Nizamul was also elected a member of the Provincial Assembly of

East Pakistan East Pakistan was a Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Scheme, One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which, in modern times, is split between India and Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India ...

from Tangail-1 in the

1970 Pakistani general election General elections were held in Pakistan on 7 December 1970 to elect members of the National Assembly. They were the first general elections since the independence of Pakistan and ultimately the only ones held prior to the independence of Bang ...

. During the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, he played an important role in forming foreign public opinion in favor of

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Early life

Nizamul was born in Barnichanda Bari village of Tangail subdivision,

(now

Dhanbari Upazila Dhanbari ( bn, ধনবাড়ী) is an upazila under Tangail District in the division of Dhaka. It was formed in 2006 by the efforts of Fakir Mahbub Anam Swapan,Central BNP leader who contest in the constituency Tangail-1 (Madhupur -Dhanbari ...

, Tangail District, Bangladesh). He served as president of the Madhupur thana Awami League Branch.

References

Awami League politicians Living people 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members People from Tangail District Year of birth missing (living people) {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub