Shamim Osman
Shamim Osman

General Information
Incumbent Member of Parliament
Pilotics, Business

Full Name: A K M Shamim Osman

Affiliation: Bangladesh Awami League

Current Position: Member of Parliament

Date of Birth: February 28, 1961

Place of Birth: Bangladesh

Home District: Narayanganj

Constituency: 205, Narayanganj-4

Term: Third (7th-1996-12 June, 10th-2014, 11th-2018)

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Profile:

A K M Shamim Osman (born 28 February 1961) is a Bangladeshi politician and incumbent Member of Parliament representing Narayanganj-4 constituency. He was elected as a member of parliament at the 7th National Parliamentary Elections in 1996 on the nomination of Bangladesh Awami League. After losing the position in 2001, he went on self-exile in India and Canada. After around eight years, he came back to Narayanganj in April 2009 when Bangladesh Awami League party returned to power. In 2011, he lost the Narayanganj City Mayoral election to Selina Hayat Ivy.

Osman was born in North Chasara of Narayanganj district. He was a student of Govt. Tolaram College and completed his BA from this college. He then passed LLB under University of Dhaka. He has been associated with the politics of Bangladesh Chhatra League since 1975. His elder brother Nasim Osman was a Member of Parliament for the Jatiya Party. His younger brother Selim Osman is a Member of Parliament from the Jatiya Party. At their father A K M Shamsuzzoha was the first Member of Parliament of Bangladesh and their grandfather M Osman Ali was a founding member of the Bangladesh Awami League.

In 2014 Bangladesh general election, the party picked Osman to contest for Narayanganj-4 constituency, dropping the incumbent Kabori Sarwar. He is the winning Member of Parliament from Narayanganj-4 constituency in the seventh, tenth and eleventh parliamentary elections.   

On 8 March 2013, a 17-year-old student Tanvir Mohammad Toki was found dead in Narayanganj two days after he had gone missing. The victim's father, Rafiur Rabbi, accused Osman's family of the killing of his son. On 25 March, High Court denied anticipatory bail to Osman and his son Ayon Osman.

‘Khela Hobe’ is a popular political slogan in Bangladesh and India, especially in West Bengal and Assam. The slogan was first used by Bangladeshi politician Osman.

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