Habibur Rahman (Jamaat-e-Islami politician)

Habibur Rahman
Habibur Rahman
Member of Parliament; for Chuadanga-2
	In office; 27 February 1991 – 16 February 1996
Preceded by	Habibur Rahman
Succeeded by	Md. Mozammel Haque
Personal details
Born	c. 1935
Died	23 September 2010
Political party	Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami
Alma mater	Government Madrasah-e-Alia

Habibur Rahman (c. 1935 – 23 September 2010) Politician of Chuadanga District of Bangladesh, Islamic speaker and former member of Parliament for Chuadanga-2 constituency in 1991.[1]

Birth and early life

Habibur Rahman was born in 1935 in Chapra, Nadia district of India. In 1950, he started living as a family in the village of Hogaldanga in Damurhuda, Chuadanga. He first studied at Comilla Kamrangirchar Madrasa, Later Kamil passed from Dhaka Alia Madrasa.[2]

Career

Habibur Rahman was a member of the Shura in the Central Majlis of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. He joined Chhatra Sangha in 1960 and Jamaat in 1969.[2] In the fifth parliamentary elections of 1991, he was elected as a Member of Parliament from Chuadanga-2 constituency as a candidate of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.[1] He was defeated by Chuadanga-2 constituency as a Jamaat candidate in the seventh parliamentary elections on June 12, 1996 and the ninth parliamentary elections in 2008.[3]

War crimes and controversy

Habibur Rahman was the president of the peace committee of Jivannagar in Chuadanga during the war of liberation. It was alleged that under his leadership, Abdur Razzak, a freedom fighter from Kayagram, was taken to the Hasadah camp, killed and later his body was disappeared. He was arrested on January 1, 1972 under the Brokers Act and was convicted along with 752 other war criminals convicted under the Brokers Act. When the Ziaur Rahman government repealed the Brokers Act, he was released along with others.[4][5][6]

Death

Habibur Rahman died on 23 September 2010.[2]

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References

"List of 5th Parliament Members" (PDF). Jatiya Sangsad. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
"Maulana Habibur Rahman's burial has been completed". The Daily Sangram (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2020-07-10. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
"Habibur Rahman (Chuadanga),". Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 2020-07-10.
"Maulana Habibur Rahman - Notorious Razakar of Chuadanga". Shaptahik 2000 (in Bengali). 2008-12-26.
Rajib Ahmed. Liberation War of Bangladesh Chuadanga District (in Bengali). p. 300.
ASM Shamsul Arefin (1999). List of those arrested on charges of razakar and broker (in Bengali). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Research and Publications. p. 62.

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[:02-1] "List of 5th Parliament Members" (PDF). Jatiya Sangsad. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2020.

[:0-2] "Maulana Habibur Rahman's burial has been completed". The Daily Sangram (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2020-07-10. Retrieved 2020-07-10.

[3] "Habibur Rahman (Chuadanga),". Prothom Alo (in Bengali). Retrieved 2020-07-10.

[4] "Maulana Habibur Rahman - Notorious Razakar of Chuadanga". Shaptahik 2000 (in Bengali). 2008-12-26.

[5] Rajib Ahmed. Liberation War of Bangladesh Chuadanga District (in Bengali). p. 300.

[6] ASM Shamsul Arefin (1999). List of those arrested on charges of razakar and broker (in Bengali). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Bangladesh Research and Publications. p. 62.