Career
Raju was elected to parliament in 1996 from Narsingdi-5 as an Awami League candidate. [6] He received 75,672 votes while his nearest rival,Abdul Ali Mridha of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party,received 61,862 votes. [6]
Raju was elected to parliament in 2001 from Narsingdi-5 as an Awami League candidate. [6] He received 117,096 votes while his nearest rival,Abdul Ali Mridha of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party,received 99,509 votes. [6]
Raju was elected to parliament in 2008 from Narsingdi-5 as an Awami League candidate. [7] He received 93,746 votes while his nearest rival,Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party,received 66,942 votes. [7]
In January 2009,Raju was appointed the minister for posts and telecommunications. [8]
Raju's brother,Salauddin Ahmed Bachchu,was accused in the murder of a former mayor of Narsingdi,who was killed on 1 November 2011. [9] [10] Raju was in Geneva at the time of the murder. [11] After he returned to Bangladesh he held a 15 minute meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. [11] The meeting was also attended by three other Awami League members of parliament representing Narsingdi District:Anwarul Ashraf Khan,Muhammad Nazrul Islam,and Zahirul Haque Bhuiyan Mohan. [11] The prime minister requested him to prove his brother's innocence after the meeting. [11]
On 16 September 2012,Raju was replaced by Sahara Khatun as the minister for posts and telecommunications. [8] Raju was then appointed the minister of labour and employment. [8]
On 3 January 2013,Raju was dropped from the presidium council of the Awami League. [12] On 15 July 2013,Raju placed the Labour Law (amendment 2006)-2013 in parliament which was then passed by the treasury bench. [13] Raju was removed from the cabinet of Bangladesh on 21 November 2013. [14]
Raju was not included in the third Hasina cabinet formed after the general elections on 12 January 2014. [15]
Raju was elected to parliament in 2014 from Narsingdi-5 as an Awami League candidate. [16] He was elected unopposed as the election was boycotted by all major political parties. [16]
Raju was elected to parliament in 2018 from Narsingdi-5 as an Awami League candidate. [17] He had received 2,94,484 votes while his nearest rival,Md Ashraf Uddin of Bangladesh Nationalist Party,received 20,431 votes. [17]
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