Wazi Uddin Khan (20 February 1936 – 31 January 2020) was a Bangladeshi freedom fighter and politician from

Pabna Pabna ( bn, পাবনা) is a city of Pabna District, Bangladesh and the administrative capital of the eponymous Pabna District. It is on the north bank of the Padma River and has a population of about . Etymology * According to the histo ...

belonging to

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 ...

. He was elected twice as a member of the

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 ...

Biography

Khan was born on 20 February 1936 at Vajpara in

. He took part in the

Liberation War of Bangladesh The Bangladesh Liberation War ( bn, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ, , also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh) was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali n ...

in 1971. Khan was elected as the general secretary of Pabna District Motor Workers' Union in 1972. He was elected as the president of the Bangladesh Road Transport Workers' Federation in 1980 and served in that post till his death. Khan served as the president of

Pabna District Pabna District ( bn, পাবনা জেলা) is a district in central Bangladesh. It is an economically important district in Bangladesh. Its administrative capital is the eponymous Pabna town. History Archeologist Cunningham conjectured ...

unit of

for 25 years. He was elected as a member of the

from

Pabna-3 Pabna-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Mokbul Hossain (born 1950), Mokbul Hossain of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Bhangura Upazila, Bhangura, Cha ...

in 1986. He was also elected from that constituency in the Seventh Jatiya Sangsad Election. Khan died on 31 January 2020 at his own residence at Atua Housepara in

at the age of 83.

References

1936 births 2020 deaths 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members 7th Jatiya Sangsad members People from Pabna District Awami League politicians People of the Bangladesh Liberation War {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub