Morshed Ali Khan Panni

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Morshed Ali Khan Panni

|office1 = Member of 2nd Jatiya Sangsad

|term_start1 = 1979

|term_end1 = 1986

|predecessor1= Fazlur Rahman Faruque

|office2 = Member of 4th Jatiya Sangsad

|term_start2 = 1988

|term_end2 = 1991

|predecessor2= Shawkat Momen Shahjahan

|successor2 = Humayun Khan Panni

|constituency= Tangail-8

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|party = Bangladesh Nationalist Party

|father = Khurram Khan Panni

|relatives = Wajed Ali Khan Panni (great grandfather), Humayun Khan Panni (uncle), Wajid Ali Khan Panni (brother)

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Morshed Ali Khan Panni is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament from Tangail-8.

Early life and family

Morshed Ali Khan Panni was born into the Bengali Muslim family known as the Zamindars of Karatia. His father, Khurram Khan Panni, was a civil servant and landowner. His ancestors were Pashtuns belonging to the Panni tribe, and had migrated from Afghanistan to Bengal in the 16th century where they became culturally assimilated.{{cite Banglapedia |author=Mahbub, Khan |article=Karatia Zamindari}}

Panni's older brother is Wajid Ali Khan Panni (Bunting), the motawalli or supervisor of the zamindari estate. The two brothers had a dispute after Bunting Panni rented Rokeya Manzil of the estate to Lighthouse School, a school established by Islami Chhatra Shibir in 2000.{{cite news |title=Masked men burn down Shibir-run school |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-218928 |accessdate=12 January 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=19 January 2012 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Why are our neighbours wary? |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/column/why-are-our-neighbours-wary/20180324.htm |accessdate=12 January 2019 |work=Rediff}}

Career

Panni was elected to parliament from Tangail-8 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979.{{cite web |title=List of 2nd Parliament members |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp/2nd.pdf |website=Bangladesh Parliament |accessdate=12 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904090815/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp/2nd.pdf |archive-date=4 September 2018}} He was elected to parliament in 1988 from Tangail-8 as a Jatiya Party candidate.{{cite web |title=List of 4th Parliament members |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp/4th.pdf |website=Bangladesh Parliament |accessdate=12 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708101931/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp/4th.pdf |archive-date=8 July 2019}}{{cite book |title=Records of the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |date=1980 |publisher=Unesco |isbn=9789230020101 |page=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xSYqAQAAMAAJ&q=Morshed+Ali+Khan+Panni |accessdate=12 January 2019 |language=fr}}

References

Category:Jatiya Party politicians

Category:Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians

Category:Living people

Category:2nd Jatiya Sangsad members

Category:4th Jatiya Sangsad members

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Karatia Zamindari family

Category:21st-century Bengalis

Category:20th-century Bengalis