Faruk Rashid Chowdhury

Faruk Rashid Chowdhury is a Jatiya Party politician from Bangladesh and a former minister of finance.^[1][2][3][4]

Faruk Rashid Chowdhury
ফারুক রশিদ চৌধুরী
Member of the 3rd and 4th Jatiya Sangsad
In office 1987 – 27 February 1991
President	Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Shahabuddin Ahmed
Prime Minister	Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, Moudud Ahmed, Kazi Zafar Ahmed
Vice President	A. K. M. Nurul Islam, Moudud Ahmed
Preceded by	Humayun Rashid Choudhury
Succeeded by	Abdus Samad Azad
Constituency	Sunamganj-3
Personal details
Born	(1932-09-10) 10 September 1932 (age 92) Sylhet, Assam Province, British India
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Political party	Communist Party (1987) Jatiya Party (1988-1996)
Parents	Abdur Rasheed Choudhury (father) Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury (mother)
Relatives	Humayun Rashid Choudhury (brother)

Early life and background

Choudhury was born into a Bengali Muslim political family in Rashid Manzil near Dargah Gate, Sylhet. His ancestral home is in Dargapasha, Sunamganj District.^[5] He was one of seven children of Abdur Rasheed Choudhury (d. 1944) and Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury (1910–1974), and a younger brother of Humayun Rashid Choudhury.^[6] Abdur Rasheed was a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly and later a member of the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi, while Serajunessa was elected a member of Pakistan National Assembly.^[7]

Political career

Chowdhury participated in a 1987 by-election as a Communist Party candidate and successfully won the Sunamganj-3 constituency seat at the 3rd Jatiya Sangsad. He did a second term in the same constituency after winning the 1988 Bangladeshi general election as a Jatiya Party candidate. Chowdhury lost his seat to Abdus Samad Azad of the Awami League at the 1991 Bangladeshi general election. He attempted to regain the seat at the June 1996 Bangladeshi general elections but lost to Azad once again.^[1][2][3][8]