Mohammad Yunus (Bangladeshi politician)
{{Short description|Bangladeshi politician (1944–2021)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mohammad Yunus
| predecessor =
| successor =
| birth_date = 4 July 1944
| birth_place = Comilla District
| death_date = 27 March 2021
| death_place = Dhaka
| party = Bangladesh Nationalist Party
| constituency_MP = Comilla-14
| constituency_MP1 = Comilla-5
| termstart = 7 March 1973
| termend = 1976
| termstart1 = 7 May 1986
| termend1 = 6 December 1990
| termstart2 = 1 October 2001
| termend2 = 26 October 2006
}}
Mohammad Yunus (4 July 1944 – 27 March 2021) was a politician of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and MP for the Comilla-14 and Comilla-5 constituencies.{{cite news |title=BNP gets back its candidates' in 4 out of 6 constituencies |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/election/2018/12/06/two-bnp-nominations-reinstated-after-ec-approval |accessdate=25 October 2019 |work=Dhaka Tribune |date=6 December 2018}}
Birth and early life
Yunus was born on 4 July 1944 in Gobinath village of Piryatrapur union in Burichang upazila of Comilla district.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}
Career
Yunus was an organizer of the liberation war. He played an active role in all the political activities of the time including the 6-point movement, language movement and participation in the war of independence of Bangladesh.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
In the first parliamentary elections of 1973, he won the then Comilla-14 seat as a candidate of the Bangladesh Awami League.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
As a candidate of Jatiya Party, he won the third Jatiya Sangsad election of 1986 and the fourth Jatiya Sangsad of 1988 from Comilla-5 constituency.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}
He was elected a member of parliament from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in the 8th parliamentary election of 2001.{{cite web|author=|title=Parliament Election Result of 1991, 1996, 2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics|url=http://votemonitor.net:80/bangladesh/EADetails_1991_1996_2001.php?EA=252|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081229001002/http://votemonitor.net/bangladesh/EADetails_1991_1996_2001.php?EA=252|archive-date=29 December 2008|access-date=25 October 2019|website=Vote Monitor Networks}}
He was defeated in the fifth national election of 1991 by contesting on behalf of Jatiya Party and in the national election of 2018 by BNP.{{Cite web |script-title=bn:মো. ইউনুস|url=https://election.prothomalo.com/candidates/1961|access-date=2021-06-25|website=Prothom Alo|language=bn}}
Death
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Category:People from Burichang Upazila
Category:Politicians from Chittagong Division
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