Afazuddin Fakir

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Afazuddin Fakir
Member of Bangladesh Parliament
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Born1925 (1925)
Political party Bangladesh Nationalist Party

Afazuddin Fakir (born 1925) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Tangail-2.

Life and career

Fakir was born in 1925 at Nikrail in what was then Mymensingh district (now Tangail District, Bangladesh). He graduated in 1945 and started a jute business in Narayanganj. [1]

As an independent candidate he was elected a member of the National Assembly for constituency Mymensingh-II in 1965. [1]

Fakir was a member of the national committee. He sent a letter to the president of Pakistan, Yahya Khan, asking him to deescalate the situation in East Pakistan on 13 March 1971 before the start of Bangladesh Liberation war. [2] [3] He was elected to parliament from Tangail-2 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 Nuruzzaman, Mohammad (1968). Who's Who. The Eastern Publications. p. 22. OCLC   46205.
  2. ↑ "March 13, 1971: Civilian staff of military warned". The Daily Star. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  3. ↑ "March 13, 1971". The Daily Star. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  4. ↑ "List of 2nd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
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