Tanvir Shakil Joy | |
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তানভীর শাকিল জয় | |
Member of Parliament | |
Assumed office 12 Nov 2020 | |
Preceded by | Mohammed Nasim |
Constituency | Sirajganj-1 |
In office 25 January 2009 – 24 January 2014 | |
Preceded by | Mohammed Nasim |
Succeeded by | Mohammed Nasim |
Constituency | Sirajganj-1 |
Personal details | |
Born | 1 August 1976 |
Political party | Bangladesh Awami League |
Parents |
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Tanvir Shakil Joy (born 1 August 1976)[1] is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Sirajganj-1 constituency.
In April 2007, illegal VoIP equipment allegedly owned by Joy were seized by Rapid Action Battalion from a house in Bashabo, Dhaka.[2]
Joy was elected to Parliament in 2008 from Sirajganj-1 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate.[3]
In 2016, he was one of the organiser of a rally of Bangladeshi students protesting Islamic extremism.[4][5]
After the death of Mohammed Nasim, his father, on 13 June 2020 Joy was elected as a Jatiya Sangsad member of the vacant seat in the by-election held on 12 Nov 2020.[6][7]
Joy's father, Mohammed Nasim, was an Awami League politician and former government minister.[8] His grandfather was Captain Muhammad Mansur Ali.[9] Tanvir Shakil Joy was married in 2000 to Sabrina Sultana Chowdhury, a teacher in the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Dhaka University. He is the father of a daughter named Tapsi Joy Prathama.