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Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury

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Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury
শাহীনুর পাশা চৌধুরী
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament
for Sunamganj-3
In office
21 July 2005 – 28 October 2006
Preceded byAbdus Samad Azad
Succeeded byMuhammad Abdul Mannan
Personal details
Born1970 (age 55–56)
Patli, Jagannathpur, Sylhet District, East Pakistan
PartyBangladesh Khelafat Majlis (2024 – present)
Other political
affiliations
Trinomool BNP (2023 – 2024)
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (1991 – 2023)
Alma materUniversity of Dhaka
OccupationPolitician
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
MovementDeobandi

Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury (Bengali: শাহীনুর পাশা চৌধুরী; born 1970) is a Bangladeshi politician from Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis. He was elected a member of parliament for the first time in July 2005 after the death of incumbent Abdus Samad Azad, a Awami League presidium member.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

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Chowdhury was born in 1970 to a Bengali Muslim family in Patli Union, Jagannathpur, Sylhet District, East Pakistan (now Sunamganj District, Bangladesh). He completed a master's in hadith studies at the Jamia Qasimul Uloom Madrasa, and then completed a degree at the Murari Chand College. After that, he studied law at the University of Dhaka.[4]

Career

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In 1991, Chowdhury was affiliated with Chhatra Jamiat Bangladesh. He was the central general secretary. He is the joint general secretary of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh. He was a member of parliament elected from Sunamganj-3 constituency. He was elected a member of parliament for the first time after the death of former foreign minister Abdus Samad Azad, a member of the Awami League Presidium in the 2005.[1][2][5]

Chowdhury unsuccessfully contested the 2008 and 2018 elections as a candidate of the four party alliance led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jatiya Oikya Front.[6]

Chowdhury served as the legal affairs secretary of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh in 2019–2020. He is the vice-president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh. On 7 May 2021, he was detained by Criminal Investigation Department from Sylhet following riots by Hefazat during a state visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.[6][7][8][9] He joined Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis on 16 December 2024.[10]

References

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  1. 1 2 "List of 8th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  2. 1 2 শাহিনুর পাশা চৌধুরী (in Bengali). Prothom Alo. Archived from the original on 26 June 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  3. ↑ "Shahinur Pasha Chy takes oath". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  4. ↑ শাহীনুর পাশা চৌধুরীর বর্ণাঢ্য জীবনী
  5. ↑ সুনামগঞ্জ-৩ আসনে প্রার্থীশূন্য বিএনপি. Bangladesh Pratidin (in Bengali). 2 December 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  6. 1 2 "Hefazat leader Shahinur Pasha arrested in Sylhet". Dhaka Tribune. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  7. ↑ "Why Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh led to 12 deaths". BBC News. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  8. ↑ "Police arrest Shahinur Chowdhury, a former MP with Hifazat ties". bdnews24.com. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  9. ↑ "Ex-MP sent to jail over Hefajat mayhem". The Daily Star. 9 May 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2021.
  10. ↑ মাওলানা মামুনুল হকের দলে যোগ দিলেন সাবেক সংসদ সদস্য শাহীনূর পাশা. Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 24 December 2024.
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