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Kazi Faruque Kader

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Kazi Faruque Kader
Member of Parliament
Nilphamari-3
In office
6 January 2009 – 5 January 2014
Preceded byMizanur Rahman Chowdhury[1]
Succeeded byGolam Mustafa[2]
Personal details
Political partyJatiya Party
SpouseNasreen Kader
ParentKazi Abdul Kader (father)

Kazi Faruq Kader is a Bangladeshi Freedom Fighter and Jatiya Party Politician and the former Member of Parliament from Nilphamari-3, Rangpur.

Career

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Faruq joined Jatiyo Party under General Ershad and won the 1988 National Parliament Election. Faruq was nominated for a second time from Nilphamari-3 constituency in 2008 as a candidate of Jatiya Party of the Grand Alliance.[3][4] He was elected to parliament in 2008 winning by almost double the votes of his rivals. He lost the 2014 election to Golam Mostofa, Bangladesh Awami League candidate due to a rigged election.[5]

During his time as a Member of Parliament, Faruq played a major role in establishing roads, schools, colleges and madrassas in his constituency. He also focused significantly on rural electrification.

Personal life

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Faruq completed his secondary education from Abbottabad Public School in Pakistan. He later graduated from Dhaka University with a Bachelors in Political Science. Faruq is a Freedom Fighter in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. After his training in India, he was assigned to Sector 8 under Major Muhammed Abul Manzur (later Major General), and entered the country secretly through Jhenaidah to fight in the Liberation War.

Faruq's father, Kazi Abdul Kader, was a Government Minister of Pakistan. He was the Food & Agriculture Minister of the erstwhile East Pakistan Government and a Leader of the Convention Muslim League.[6] Faruq is married to his wife, Nasreen, since 1972 and have 4 children together.

References

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  1. ^ "List of 8th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament.
  2. ^ "List of 10th Parliament Members English".
  3. ^ "Faruque Kader being treated as 'outsider'". The Daily Star. 17 December 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Protest in Jaldhaka against ticket to collaborator's son". The Daily Star. 28 November 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  5. ^ "All Election Result". votebd.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Local News on Bangladesh".