A. B. M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury

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A.B.M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury
এ.বি.এম ফজলে করিম চৌধুরী
Member of Parliament
for Chittagong-6
In office
5 January 2014 –6 August 2024
Parents
Relatives The Chowdhury family of Chittagong
Alma mater University of Chittagong

A.B.M. Fazle Karim Chowdhury is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Chittagong-6 constituency. He was elected consecutively 5 time MP from Chittagong-6. He was the chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Railways Ministry. [1] His father, AKM Fazlul Kabir Chowdhury, served as a member of parliament as well as Leader of the Opposition in the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly.

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Early life

Chowdhury was born on 6 November 1954. [2] He has a B.A. and a M.A. degree from University of Chittagong major in History. [2] His father was AKM Fazlul Kabir Chowdhury and his uncle was Fazlul Quader Chowdhury. [3] His cousins and Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury, were major political opponents of Chowdhury in Chittagong. [3] [4] [5]

Career & Awards

Chowdhury was elected to Parliament in 2001 from Chittagong-6 as an Awami League candidate with 52 percent of the vote. [6] He faced two murder charges that was intentional by his opponent BNP leader; he received acquittal in one and a discharge in another. [7]

Chowdhury was re-elected to Parliament from Chittagong-5 as a candidate of Awami League with 49 percent of the votes. [8] Chowdhury served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Housing and Public Works. [9] He was a member of the parliamentary standing committee on the Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs ministry. [10]

Chowdhury was elected to parliament from Chittagong-6 in 2014 and served as a Chairman of the Parliamentary standing committee on the ministry of Railway till 5th august 2024. Under his period he developed CRB areas, reconstructed some of old building and made gallery for pedestrian and visitor. [11] [6] According to his wealth statement, he made significant profit from fish farming at around 25 million taka. [12]

In January 2015, Chowdhury was elected to the Human Rights Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. [13]

Chowdhury was re-elected to Parliament in 2018 as a candidate of Awami League with 230, 471 votes while his nearest rival, Jashim Uddin Shikder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, received 2, 244 votes. [6]

Chowdhury tested positive for COVID-19 in August 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.

On 24 August 2021, Chowdhury chaired a meeting of the Parliamentary standing committee on the Railway Ministry. [14]

1.ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury has won the national award for the 5th time by winning the national award in plantation in 2023. In 2013, he won the first national award for the Environment Medal for his special contribution in protecting the balance of the environment. He was awarded the National Agriculture Medal for the second time in 2017 in recognition of his unique contribution to the agricultural sector. In 2018, for the third time in 2018, he won the national award for planting 4 lakh 87 thousand 540 trees in 1 hour in Raozan Upazila. He was awarded the National Fisheries Medal for the fourth time in 2021 in recognition of his significant contribution to the fisheries sector. Finally, in 2022, he received the National Award for Plantation for the fifth time.16

2. He also got UNESCO Award.

3. One of the highest tax payer on an individual level.


On 11 September 2024, Chowdhury was arrested near Akhaura border in Brahmanbaria by Border Guard Bangladesh and he was charged fake murder cases of student movement in 2024. [15]

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