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Shahab-ud-Din Virk
Indian Punjabi politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Khan Bahadur Chaudhry Sir Shahab-ud-Din Virk (died 1946) was a Punjabi lawyer and politician of British India.
Biography
Chaudhry Shahabuddin was born into a Muslim Jat family of the Virk tribe[1] hailing from Sialkot District in what was then Punjab, British India.[2]
He was educated at Government College University in Lahore. In 1912 he was elected to Lahore Municipal Committee. He became a member of the Punjab Legislative Council in 1923, and was elected President for three consecutive terms between 1925 and 1936.[3] He was made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours list of 1930.[4] In 1936 the Council was replaced by the Punjab Legislative Assembly, and Virk served as the Speaker of the Assembly between April 1937 and March 1945.[5] He died in Lahore in 1946.
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