Kafiluddin Chowdhury
{{short description|Bangladeshi politician. Joint Secretary of United Front}}
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|office = Member of National Assembly
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|birth_date = 1898
|birth_place = Munshiganj, British India
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1972|5|12|1898}}
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|children = A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury
|relatives = Mahi B. Chowdhury (grandson)
|party = Bangladesh Awami League{{cite book |last1=Zaman |first1=Habibuz |year=1999 |title=Seventy Years in a Shaky Subcontinent |publisher=Janus Publishing Company |page=282 |isbn=978-1-85756-405-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6phSu0SDeY0C&pg=PA282 |access-date=20 December 2016 |language=en}}
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Kafiluddin Chowdhury was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and former member of Provincial and National Assembly of Pakistan.{{cite web|last1=Chowdhury|first1=AM|title=Chowdhury, Kafiluddin|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Chowdhury,_Kafiluddin|website=Banglapedia|access-date=20 December 2016}}
Early life
Career
Chowdhury started his legal career in Munshiganj sub-divisional court. He moved his practice to Dhaka. He started his political career in the Krishak Praja Party of AK Fazlul Huq. He campaigned for the Movement for Pakistan In 1954 he was elected to the provincial assembly. He served as the Minister of Law, Forest, Roads and Communication, and Land ministries in the provincial government of East Pakistan.
He was imprisoned after president Ayub Khan declared Martial Law. He was elected to the National assembly in 1970. He crossed over to India during Bangladesh Liberation War.
Death and legacy
In November 1971 he had a heart attack. He moved to independent Bangladesh after the war on 31 January 1972. He died on 12 May 1972. His son Badruddoza Chowdhury would become the 13th President of Bangladesh for a short stint of only six(6) and a half months.
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Category:Krishak Sramik Party politicians
Category:Awami League politicians
Category:Candidates in the 1970 Pakistani general election
Category:Members of the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh
Category:Provincial ministers of East Pakistan
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