Yussuf Abdullah Harun ( bn, ইউসুফ আবদুল্লাহ হারুন) is an Awami League politician and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Comilla-3.

Early life

Harun was born on 15 November 1947 to a

Bengali Muslim Bengali Muslims ( bn, বাঙালি মুসলমান; ) are adherents of Islam who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis. Comprising about two-thirds of the global Bengali population, they are the sec ...

family in the village of Bhubanghar in

Muradnagar Muradnagar is a city and a municipal board in Ghaziabad district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It lies about from Ghaziabad, the district headquarters, and from Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a ...

Tippera District Comilla District, officially known as Cumilla District, is a district of Bangladesh located about 100 kilometres south east of Dhaka. Comilla is bordered by Brahmanbaria and Narayanganj districts to the north, Noakhali and Feni districts to th ...

. His father,

Harun-or-Rashid Harun-or-Rashid is a Bangladeshi academic. He is a former vice-chancellor of Bangladesh National University. Education Born in Barishal District, Rashid obtained bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Dhaka. He earned his Ph.D. ...

, was also the MP of Comilla-3 but 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 ...

, and his mother's name is Noor Jahan Rashid. Harun completed a bachelor in communication. He is an F.C.A. fellow of the

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can ...

Career

Harun was a councilor of Dhaka Stock Exchange and president of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry in 1998. Harun was the President of

Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI; bn, বাংলাদেশ শিল্প ও বণিক সমিতি) is the apex trade organization of Bangladesh playing a pivotal role in consultative and advisory capa ...

in 2003. He is the chairman of Asia Insurance Limited. On 20 April 2004, Harun received bail in a murder case. He had been accused of shooting a Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist during a clash with Awami League on 5 May 2002. Harun was re-elected chairman of Asia Insurance Limited in 2011. Harun was elected to parliament in 2014 as an independent candidate. He received 78,647 votes while his nearest rival, idnependent candidate Ahsanul Alam Kishor, received 56,336 votes. He is a member of the committee on estimates of the 10th Jatiya Sangsad. He took the initiative to help design and open the Allah Chattar in

. Harun was re-elected to parliament from Comilla-3 in 2018 as an Awami League candidate. He received 273,182 votes while his nearest rival, KM Mujibul Haque of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, received 12,358 votes.

References

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