Abdus Salam (politician)

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Abdus Salam
Member of the Bangladesh Parliament
for Sherpur-2
In office
1986–1991
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byMatia Chowdhury
Personal details
Born1942
Sherpur, Bengal Province, British India
Died17 March 2011(2011-03-17) (aged 68–69)
Sherpur, Bangladesh
Political partyJatiya Party (Ershad)

Abdus Salam (1942 – 17 March 2011) is a Jatiya Party politician and a former member of parliament of the then Jamalpur-7 and Sherpur-2.[1]

Early life[edit]

Abdus Salam was born 1942 in Sherpur.[2]

Career[edit]

Abdus Salam started teaching in Sunamganj and Ashek Mahmud College in Jamalpur. He was the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs during the tenure of President Ziaur Rahman and Sattar, and the Minister of Agriculture during the tenure of Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1986.

He was elected to parliament from the then Jamalpur-7 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979.[1] He was elected to parliament from Sherpur-2 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986 and 1988.[3][4]

Death[edit]

Salam died on 17 March 2011.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "List of 2nd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  2. ^ a b নালিতাবাড়ীতে সাবেক মন্ত্রী অধ্যাপক আব্দুস সালামের স্মরণ সভা (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2020-07-23. Retrieved 2020-07-23.
  3. ^ ""List of 3rd Parliament Members"" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
  4. ^ ""List of 4th Parliament Members"" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Retrieved 9 April 2020.