Syed Rahmatur Rob Irtiza Ahsan | |
|---|---|
| Member of 3rd Jatiya Sangsad | |
| In office 1986–1988 | |
| President | Hussain Muhammad Ershad |
| Prime Minister | Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury |
| Preceded by | Akhtaruzzaman Alamgir |
| Succeeded by | Nurul Islam Moni |
| Constituency | Barguna-2 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 07 May 1937 Bamna, Barguna,  Bengal Presidency |
| Died | April 13, 2020 (aged 84) Apollo Hospital Dhaka,  Bangladesh |
| Political party | Jatiya Party (Ershad) |
| Relatives | Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury Syed Qamarul Ahsan |
Syed Rahmatur Rob Irtiza Ahsan was a Bangladeshi politician and the former Member of Parliament of Barguna-2.
Early life and family
Syed Rahmatur Rob Irtiza Ahsan was born on 7th May 1937, to a Bengali Muslim zamindar family known as the Syeds of Bamna based in Barguna, then located under the Backergunge District of the Bengal Presidency. His father, Syed Najmul Ahsan, was the son of Syed Abi Muhammad (d. 1951) and they traced their ancestry to Syed Mir Qadir Bakhsh, who belonged to the Syed family of Malidia in Faridpur. Irtiza Ahsan's great grandfather, Syed Mir Sarwar Jan (d. 1914), who was Bakhsh's son, migrated to Bamna in greater Barisal after marrying Azizunnesa, the daughter of Taluqdar Husayn ad-Din Chowdhury, and eventually inheriting the taluqdari of Ramna-Bamna. Ahsan's uncle Syed Ziaul Ahsan, was a speaker for the East Bengal Legislative Assembly during the United Front regime and married to Syeda Shaukat Ara Begum, the daughter of Syed Abdul Jabbar, a zamindar of Comilla.[1] His other uncle Syed Moinul Ahsan, was the vice-principal of Dhaka College and the father of former secretariat Shamim Ahsan. Ahsan's youngest uncle, Syed Qamarul Ahsan, was a former parliamentarian. Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, the incumbent deputy leader of the Jatiya Sangsad, is the daughter of Najmul Ahsan's cousin Syed Shah Hamidullah.[2]
Career
During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, Ahsan was the chairman of Bamna Union. Ahsan was elected to parliament from the new Barguna-2 constituency (formerly part of Patuakhali-1) as a Jatiya Party (Ershad) candidate in 1986.[3] He contested the 1991 election as a candidate of National Democratic Party but lost to independent candidate Nurul Islam Moni.[4]
References
- ↑ Ahmad, Syed Kamaluddin (30 June 2021), তরফের সৈয়দ বংশ ও লাকসাম নবাব পরিবার (in Bengali)
- ↑ Ahmed, Siraj Uddin (2010). "বামনার জমিদার চৌধুরী পরিবার" [The zamindar Chowdhury family of Bamna]. বরিশাল বিভাগের ইতিহাস [History of the Barisal Division] (in Bengali). Vol. 1. Dhaka: Bhaskar Prakashani.
- ↑ ""List of 3rd Parliament Members"" (PDF). parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ↑ "Electoral Area Result Statistics". Amarmp. Retrieved 5 May 2020.