Full Name: Shamsur Rahman Sherif Dilu

Affiliation: Bangladesh Awami League

Current Position: Deceased

Date of Birth: March 12, 1940

Date of Death: April 02, 2020

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Home District: Pabna

Constituency: 71, Pabna-4

Term: Fifth (7th-1996-12 June, 8th-2001, 9th-2008, 10th-2014, 11th-2018)

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Profile:

Shamsur Rahman Sherif Dilu (12 March 1940 – 02 April 2020) is a Bangladeshi politician, former minister and former member of parliament represented Pabna-4 constituency. He has been contesting as Member of Parliament for Pabna-4 constituency since 1996 and was elected Member of Parliament in 1996, 2001, 2009, 2014 and 2018. He was the land minister of Bangladesh as a member of Sheikh Hasina's third cabinet. He was the district president of Pabna district Bangladesh Awami League from 2015 to till his death.

Sherif was born at his mother's house in Char Shanirdiadhar village of Hemayetpur union in Sadar upazila of Pabna district. His ancestral home is in Laxmikunda village of Laxmikunda union in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Laxmikunda and Pabna Sadar. He passed matriculation from Pabna District School in 1957 and completed his Intermediate from Pabna Edward College in 1960 and graduated in 1962 from the same college.

After the partition of India, a movement was started in the newly independent Pakistan to demand mother tongue. The people of East Pakistan demanded Bengali as the state language and started a movement. Sherif joined the language movement when he was a student of class five. He was arrested by the police and kept in jail for holding a procession demanding language. Warrant of arrest was issued against him in 1959 for joining Ayub Khan's anti-martial law movement. He was arrested in 1962 for protesting against the Hamidur Rahman Education Commission. He was again imprisoned in 1967 for promoting the Six Point Movement. He had a strong role in the mass uprising of 1969. On 29 March 1971, he led a resistance war against the Pakistani army at Madhapur in Pabna. Under his leadership, 17 freedom fighters of his force were shot dead and many Pakistani soldiers were killed in that battle. He was the Brigade Leader of the Army at Kazipara under Sector 7.

Sherif's first success in political life came when he was elected chairman of Laxmikunda union in Ishwardi upazila. He then became actively involved in politics. He was elected general secretary of the union Awami League. He was later nominated as the Organizing Secretary, General Secretary, and President of the Upazila Awami League and later as the President of the District Awami League in 2006 and in charge of the presidency till his death.

Earlier, after the death of Bangabandhu in 1975, Sherif was imprisoned for five consecutive years during the tenure of the then government and he had to be imprisoned even during the tenure of Ershad government. He first contested in the Pabna-4 constituency in 1979 on the nomination of Awami League and was defeated. He later took part in the 1986 elections and lost again. The Awami League nominated Habibur Rahman Habibbe, former president of the Central BCL, for the Pabna-4 constituency in the 1991 parliamentary elections. Later, when the party nominated Sherif in 1996, he was elected as a Member of Parliament by a huge margin of votes. He was elected Member of Parliament in 2001, 2009, 2014 and 2018.

Sherif had been suffering from cancer, kidney disease, and old age complications for long. He passed away during treatment in Dhaka’s United Hospital on April 02, 2020.

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