Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito
{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician (1945–2021)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito
| native_name = খালেদুর রহমান টিটো
| native_name_lang = bn
| constituency_MP = Jessore-3
| termstart = 10 July 1986
| termend = 6 December 1987
| predecessor = Ebadot Hossain Mondal
| successor = Abdul Hai
| termstart1 = 25 January 2009
| termend1 = 20 November 2013
| predecessor1 = Tariqul Islam
| successor1 = Kazi Nabil Ahmed
| birth_date = {{birth date|1945|03|01|df=y}}
| birth_place = Kolkata, Bengal Presidency, British India
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|01|10|1945|03|01|df=y}}
| death_place = Jessore, Bangladesh
| party = Bangladesh Awami League
| otherparty = Jatiya Party (Ershad)
| parents = Habibur Rahman (father)
}}
Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito (1 March 1945 – 10 January 2021){{Cite web|date=2021-01-10|title=Veteran politician Khaledur Rahman Tito no more|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/online/news/veteran-politician-khaledur-rahman-tito-no-more-2025469|access-date=2021-01-10|website=The Daily Star|language=en}} was a Bangladeshi politician. He served as a Jatiya Sangsad member as a Jatiya Party member during 1986–1988 and a Bangladesh Awami League member during 2009–2013 representing the Jessore-3 constituency.{{Cite web|title=Constituency 87|url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-9th-parliament-members-bangla?layout=edit&id=735|access-date=2021-01-10|website=www.parliament.gov.bd}}
Early life
Tito passed his matriculation in 1960 and intermediate exams in 1963 from Quaid e Azam College (now Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College) in Dhaka in the then East Pakistan. He then graduated from Michael Madhusudan College in Jessore in 1967 from jail.
Tito joined politics at Chhatra Union in Michael Madhusudan College in 1963. He then got involved with left-leaning workers' politics in 1967.
Career
Tito was elected Jessore municipality chairman in 1984 and was elected a member of Jatiya Sangsad from Jatiya Party in 1986. Next year, he took charge as organising secretary of the central Jatiya Party. In 1990, he was appointed as the state minister for Labour and Man Power ministry. After the fall of Hussain Muhammad Ershad ruling, he was put in jail in 1991. At the end of 1991, Tito was made the secretary general (in charge) of Jatiya Party.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}
Tito joined Bangladesh Awami League on 9 March 2006.{{cite news|title=Former minister Tito joins AL today|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/03/09/d60309060871.htm|accessdate=31 March 2018|work=The Daily Star|date=9 March 2006|archive-date=1 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180401075529/http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/03/09/d60309060871.htm|url-status=dead}} He was elected to Parliament from Jessore-3 on 29 December 2008 as a candidate of Bangladesh Awami League. On 22 April 2009 he sued former Minister Tarikul Islam, also publisher of Daily Loksamaj, for defamation.{{cite news|title=Former minister Tarikul, wife sued|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-86410|accessdate=31 March 2018|work=The Daily Star|date=1 May 2009|language=en}} His house in Jessore was attacked in March 2015.{{cite news|title=Cocktails blasted at ex-MP's house, son hurt|url=http://www.banglanews24.com/index.php/politics/article/38092/Cocktails-blasted-at-ex-MPs-house-son-hurt|accessdate=31 March 2018|work=banglanews24.com|language=en}}
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