Narayon Chandra Chanda

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Narayan Chandra Chanda
নারায়ন চন্দ্র চন্দ
File:Narayan Chandra Chanda (PID-0008527).jpg
Chandra in 2024
Minister of Land
In office
11 January 2024 – 6 August 2024
Preceded bySaifuzzaman Chowdhury
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament
for Khulna-5
In office
25 January 2009 – 6 August 2024
Preceded byMia Golam Parwar
In office
2000 – 13 July 2001
Preceded bySalahuddin Yusuf
Minister of Fisheries and Livestock
In office
2 January 2018[1] – 7 January 2019
Preceded byMohammad Sayedul Haque
Succeeded bySM Rezaul Karim
State Minister of Fisheries and Livestock
In office
25 January 2014 – 2 January 2018
Succeeded byAshraf Ali Khan Khasru
Personal details
Born (1945-03-12) 12 March 1945 (age 81)
Khulna, Bengal Province, British India
NationalityBangladeshi
PartyBangladesh Awami League
OccupationPolitician

Narayan Chandra Chanda (born 12 March 1945)[2] is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Minister of Land served in 2024. He is a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Khulna-5 constituency, and a former Minister of Fisheries and Livestock.[3][4][5]

Early life

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Chanda was born on 12 March 1945 in Dumuria Upazila of Khulna district.

Career

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Chanda was elected chairman of Bhandarpara Union Parishad of Dumuria upazila in the first union council election of Bangladesh. He had been elected Chairman for six consecutive times. He was elected a Member of Parliament in the Dumuria-Fultala (Khulna-5) constituency in the by-elections held on 27 December 2000 after the death of the then Health Minister Salahuddin Yusuf. He was again elected a Member of Parliament in the ninth parliamentary election of 2008. He was elected unopposed for the third time in the 10th parliamentary election in 2014, which the opposition boycotted citing unfair conditions for the election.[6] He got the office of State Minister of Fisheries and Live stocks in this term and later in 2018 he was preceded by Mohammad Sayedul Haque and got the office of Ministry of Fisheries and live stocks.[citation needed]

Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government, Chanda was detained by the Border Guard Bangladesh on 6 October 2024 in Jhenaidah while allegedly fleeing to India.[7]

Personal life

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Chanda's son, Abhijit Chandra Chanda, died in January 2020 after committing suicide.[8]

References

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