Azizur Rahman
আজিজুর রহমান
Member of Parliament
for Moulvibazar-3
In office
5 March 1991 – 24 November 1995
Preceded byGias Uddin Chowdhury
Succeeded bySaifur Rahman
In office
10 July 1986 – 6 December 1987
Preceded byConstituency created
Personal details
Born(1943-09-26)26 September 1943
Moulvibazar, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died18 August 2020(2020-08-18) (aged 76)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Cause of deathCOVID-19
Political partyBangladesh Awami League

Azizur Rahman (26 September 1943 – 18 August 2020)[1] was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a 2-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Moulvibazar-3 constituency.[2] He received the 2020 Independence Day Award by the government of Bangladesh.[3]

Career

Rahman was elected to parliament from Moulvibazar-3 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1986.[4] He was again elected from Moulvibazar-3 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1991.[5] He was a parliamentary whip and a joint general secretary of the Awami League central Committee. At the time of his death Rahman was the Chairman of Moulvibazar Zila Parishad.[6]

Death

Rahman died on 18 August 2020 in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital, due to COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.[7]

References

  1. ↑ স্বাধীনতা পুরস্কার পাচ্ছেন মৌলভীবাজারের আজিজুর রহমান. Kaler kantho (in Bengali). 21 February 2020. Archived from the original on 2020-02-22. Retrieved 2020-08-18.
  2. ↑ "List of 5th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  3. ↑ "Govt. issues revised list of Independence Award 2020 recipients". Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha. 2020-03-12. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
  4. ↑ "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  5. ↑ "Electoral Area Result Statistics". Amarmp. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  6. ↑ BBC Bangladesh Sanglap (2 May 2014). "BBC Bangladesh Sanglap Series III Episode 71 will be recorded in Moulvibazar tomorrow". Facebook.
  7. ↑ "Moulvibazar Zila Parishad chairman Azizur dies of COVID-19". New Age. Retrieved 2020-08-18.


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