Mahi B. Chowdhury
| Incumbent Member of Parliament |
| Politician |
Full Name: Mahi Badruddoza Chowdhury
Affiliation: Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB)
Current Position: Joint Secretary General
Date of Birth: March 13, 1969
Date of Death:
Place of Birth: Bangladesh
Home District: Munshiganj
Constituency: 171, Munshiganj-1
Term: First (11th-2018)
Nationality: Bangladeshi
Profile:
Mahi B. Chowdhury(born 13 March 1969) is a Bangladeshi politician and the incumbent Member of Parliament representing the Munshiganj-1 constituency. He is currently the Joint Secretary General of the party Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB). He is the son of a former President of BangladeshA. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury.
Chowdhury completed his bachelor's in political science from Santa Clara University in California, United States.
Chowdhury first joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in August 1992. He was first elected to the parliament in the 2002 by-election from Munshiganj-1 constituency when the seat became vacant after his father, A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, had taken the position of the President of Bangladesh.
On 21 June 2002, Chowdhury's father resigned from the presidency after facing the possibility of impeachment and removal from office by the BNP-led parliament. Subsequently, Chowdhury resigned from BNP on 10 March 2004 and joined the Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) – a political party founded by his father. This resignation left a void in the Munshiganj-1 constituency and a by-election was held on 6 June 2004. Chowdhury competed as a member of the BDB party from the same constituency and won the election defeating the BNP candidate.
In November 2003, state-owned Bangladesh Television (BTV) suspended transmission of two programmes, a talk-show Ananda Ghanta and a drama-play Uttaradhikar from the production company, Entertainment Republic, owned by Chowdhury.
In 2007, Chowdhury was briefly involved with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
In June 2012, Chowdhury expressed favorable views of Khaleda Zia, the leader of his previous party BNP, by saying "Khaleda Zia is the symbol of unity and strength. She always led from the front whenever the country was in a crisis and the people were in distress. Now, she is leading the people's movement pressing for a neutral and non-partisan government.
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