Faruk Rashid Chowdhury | |
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ফারুক রশিদ চৌধুরী | |
| Member of the 3rd and 4th Jatiya Sangsad | |
| In office 1987 – 27 February 1991 | |
| President | Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Shahabuddin Ahmed |
| Prime Minister | Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, Moudud Ahmed, Kazi Zafar Ahmed |
| Vice President | A. K. M. Nurul Islam, Moudud Ahmed |
| Preceded by | Humayun Rashid Choudhury |
| Succeeded by | Abdus Samad Azad |
| Constituency | Sunamganj-3 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 September 1932 Sylhet, Assam Province, British India (now, Sylhet, Bangladesh) |
| Political party | Communist Party (1987) Jatiya Party (1988-1996) |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Humayun Rashid Choudhury (brother) |
Faruk Rashid Chowdhury is a Jatiya Party politician from Bangladesh and the former Minister of Finance.[1][2][3][4]
Choudhury was born into a Bengali Muslim political family in Rashid Manzil near Dargah Gate, Sylhet. His ancestral home is in Dargapasha, Sunamganj District.[5] He was one of seven children of Abdur Rasheed Choudhury (d. 1944) and Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury (1910–1974), and a younger brother of Humayun Rashid Choudhury.[6] Abdur Rasheed was a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly and later a member of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi, while Serajunessa was elected a member of Pakistan National Assembly.[7]
Chowdhury participated in a 1987 by-election as a Communist Party candidate and successfully won the Sunamganj-3 constituency seat at the 3rd Jatiya Sangsad. He did a second term in the same constituency after winning the 1988 Bangladeshi general election as a Jatiya Party candidate. Chowdhury lost his seat to Abdus Samad Azad of the Awami League at the 1991 Bangladeshi general election. He attempted to regain the seat at the June 1996 Bangladeshi general elections but lost to Azad once again.[1][2][3][8]