Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury

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Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury
গিয়াস উদ্দিন কাদের চৌধুরী
Member of Parliament
In office
14 July 1996 –13 July 2001
Relatives The Chowdhury family of Chittagong

Giasuddin Quader Chowdhury is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member from Chittagong-6 and Chittagong-7 constituencies. [1]

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Career

Chowdhury's candidacy in the 2008 election was cancelled by the returning officer of Bangladesh Election Commission as a court order that cleared him a loan defaulting case did not reach the commissions office before the deadline. [2]

In November 2009, Chowdhury's residence was attacked allegedly by Awami League activists. [3]

On 20 May 2010, Chowdhury collected nominations papers to contest the Chittagong City Corporation mayoral elections. [4] In September 2010, an arrest warrant was issued against him and his brother, Saifuddin Quader Chowdhury, on a bad check case. [5]

Two of Chowdhury's followers were lynched by a mob when they were fleeing after shooting a local Jubo League leader on 24 October 2013. [6]

Chowdhury is a vice chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party as of August 2016. [7] [8] He is the former president of the Chittagong District (north) unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. [9] He is a director of QC Container Line Ltd and QC Shipping Ltd, both of which are family-owned companies. [10] He is also a director of Dacca Dyeing. [11]

On 3 June 2018, Chowdhury secured bail in two cases, one over threatening Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and another over vandalizing cars, from the High Court Division. [12]

On 30 October 2019, Chowdhury was sentenced to three years imprisonment for making derogatory comments about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. [13] He went on the run after securing a bail from the High Court Division. [13]

Personal life

Chowdhury's father, Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, was the speaker of the parliament of Pakistan. [14] His brother, Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, was a former member of parliament and convicted war criminal. [15] [16] He has three other brothers, and Salman F. Rahman is his cousin. [10]

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  12. ↑ "BNP leader Giasuddin gets bail". The Daily Star. 3 June 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  13. 1 2 "Derogatory remarks against PM: BNP leader jailed for 3yrs". The Daily Star. 30 October 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
  14. ↑ "War-time terror Salauddin Quader Chy to die". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  15. ↑ "Hanged war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury's son returns home after seven months". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
  16. ↑ "Salauddin Quader's family speaks to media at 1971 Goods Hill torture chamber". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
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