Full Name: Kazi Feroz Rashid

Affiliation: Jatiya Party

Current Position: Co-Chairman

Date of Birth: February 02, 1947

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Home District: Gopalganj

Constituency: 216, Gopalganj-3 and 179, Dhaka-6

Term: Fourth (3rd-1986, 4th-1988, 10th-2014, 11th-2018)

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Background:

Kazi Feroz Rashid(born 2 February 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Dhaka-6constituencyas a candidate of Jatiya Party. He started politics from a very early life, when he was in class nine in school he participated in the movement against Pakistan's the then President General Ayub Khan’ education system. He completed a BA, MA and a LLB.

Rashid was an adventurous warrior of the 1971 battlefield, hero of the revolt against the Agartala conspiracy case, elected VP of Jagannath College 67-69, repeatedly imprisoned student leader in the tumultuous student movement of the 60s, twice elected senator of Dhaka University.

Rashid is the president of Bangladesh Surfing Association. He served as the president of Bangladesh Cinema Halls Owners Association.

Rashid’s career at a glance:

• Repeatedly imprisoned student leader in the tumultuous student movement of the 1960's.
• 1967-69 Elected Vice President (VP) of Jagannath College Student Parliament.
• The hero of the revolt against the Agartala conspiracy case.
• The brave warrior of the 1971 battlefield.
• Twice elected member of the Senate of Dhaka University.
• Minister of the Government of Bangladesh twice.
• He took part in the war of independence in 1971 and was one of them "Ora Agaro Jan" film made on the war of liberation.
• He passed LLB from Dhaka University in 1972 and started his legal career from 1973.
• He was twice an elected member of the Senate of Dhaka University from 1980-88 and was a member of the Board of Governors of the Institute of Business Administration, Dhaka University.
• A member of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI).
• Life member of Dhanmondi Recreation Club, Uttara Club, Bangla Academy and Red Crescent Society.
• He was elected Member of Parliament from Tungipara-Kotalipara in Gopalganj in 1986 and served as a Minister in the Government of Bangladesh.
• During the catastrophic floods of 1988, he served as Minister of Relief and Rehabilitation with efficiency and integrity. Under the direction of President Ershad, the Bangladesh Army conducted massive relief work among the flood victims across the country. Not a single person was killed in the catastrophic floods.
• After that he took charge as the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications and replaced the old technology of telephone cable connection with microwave link and brought the whole country under modern telecommunication system. During his tenure he established telephone exchanges in every Upazila.
• He started the revolution in the telecommunication system by issuing the first mobile phone license in the country.

 

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