Ferdous Ahmad Koraisi
| Politician and Chairman of PDP |
| Politician |
Full Name: Dr. Ferdous Ahmad Koraisi
Affiliation: Progressive Democratic Party (PDP)
Current Position: Deceased
Date of Birth: January 14, 1941
Date of Death: August 31, 2020
Place of Birth: Bangladesh
Home District: Chittagong
Constituency: 266, Feni-2
Nationality: Bangladeshi
Profile:
Ferdous Ahmad Koraisi (14 January 1941 - 31 August 2020) was a Bangladeshi Politician, journalist and former Vice President of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU). He was also the Chairman of Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) and one of the organizers of the Liberation War.
Koraisi was the president of undivided Pakistan Chhatra League from 1967 to 1968. He was one of the important student leaders at the forefront of the Six-point Movement in 1966 and the Mass Upsurge in 1969, which helped the nation prepare for the Liberation War in 1971. During the Bangladesh Liberation War he edited the Daily Deshbangla newspaper and known as the spokesman of the War. After the war, he led a faction of the Jatiya Janata Party. The party merged with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). He was involved with BNP since its inception and was made Joint Secretary General of the BNP in 1978.
Koraisi was nomeenited by BNP from Feni-2 constituency in 1996 parliament election and lost.
Koraisi formed the Green Party of Bangladesh in 2004. During the rule of the caretaker government from 2007 to 2009 he called for the formation of alternate parties to be created in Bangladesh named Progressive Democratic Party (PDP). The party became known as the "Kings Party".
Koraisi joined the Jatiya Jukta Front, an alliance of political parties to compete in the parliamentary elections in 2008. The alliance broke up in the same year. He was the Chairman of the PDP until his death.
Koraisi had long been suffering from various complications of old age and finally died of a brain haemorrhage.
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