Bangladeshi politician
Fazlur Rahman Faruque is an Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Tangail-8 constituency during 1973–1975. He received the Ekushey Padak in 2021 for his contribution to the Bangladesh Liberation War.[1] Since 2017, he is serving as president of the Tangail District unit of the Awami League.[2] He is the district council administrator of Tangail District.[3]
Career
Faruque was elected to the parliament in 1973 from Tangail-8 as an Awami League candidate.[4]
Faruque contested the 1991 parliamentary election from Tangail-7 as a candidate of the Awami League.[5] He received 41,392 and came second to Kh. Badar Uddin of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party who received 62,882 votes.[5]
In 2008, he served as the general secretary of the Tangail District unit of Awami League.[6] In 2015, he supported citizens protesting the proposed addition of Tangail District to Mymensingh Division instead preferring the present Dhaka Division.[7] He was elected president of the Tangail District Awami League on 18 October 2015 at the triennial conference of the Tangail district unit of Awami League.[8]
The triennial conference of the Tangail district unit of Awami League was held in November 2022 seven years after the last one in 2015 and Faruque was re-elected president of the district unit.[8] On 24 December 2022, Faruque proposed the name of Sheikh Hasina to be the president of Awami League at its council. She went on to win her 10th consecutive term as president.[9]
Personal life
Faruque's only son Khan Ahmed Shuvo is member of parliament from Tangail-7; elected in 2021 by-election called after the death of incumbent Ekabbar Hossain.[10]
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