Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury

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Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury
Advocate
শাহীনুর পাশা চৌধুরী
File:Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury.jpg
Chowdhury in 2025
Member of Parliament
In office
21 July 2005 – 28 October 2006
Preceded byAbdus Samad Azad
Succeeded byMuhammad Abdul Mannan
Personal details
Born1969 (age 56–57)
PartyBangladesh Khelafat Majlis
Other political
affiliations
Trinomool BNP (2023 – 2024)
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (1991 – 2023)
Alma materJamia Qasimul Uloom
Murari Chand College
University of Dhaka
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
MovementDeobandi

Shahinur Pasha Chowdhury (Bengali: শাহীনুর পাশা চৌধুরী; born 1969) is a Bangladeshi politician from Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Sunamganj-3 constituency during 2005–2006. He was elected a member of parliament for the first time in July 2005 after the death of incumbent Abdus Samad Azad, a Awami League presidium member.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

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Chowdhury was born in 1969 to a Bengali Muslim family in Patli Union, Jagannathpur, Sunamganj District, Bangladesh. He completed a Masters from Hadith studies at the Jamia Qasimul Uloom Madrasa, and then completed a degree at the Murari Chand College. After that, he studied law at the University of Dhaka.[4]

Career

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In 1991, Chowdhury was affiliated with Chhatra Jamiat Bangladesh. He was the Central General Secretary. He is the Joint General Secretary of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh. Member of the Parliament elected from Sunamganj-3 constituency. He was elected a member of parliament for the first time after the death of former Foreign Minister Abdus Samad Azad, a member of the Awami League Presidium in the 2005.[1][2][5]

Chowdhury unsuccessfully contested the 2008 and 2018 elections as a candidate of the four party alliance led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jatiya Oikya Front.[6]

Chowdhury served as the legal affairs secretary of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh in 2019–2020. He is the vice-president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Bangladesh. On 7 May 2021, he was detained by Criminal Investigation Department from Sylhet following riots by Hefazat during a state visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.[7][8][9][10] He joined Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis on 16 December 2024.[11]

References

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