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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{infobox officeholder
| name                = Khondkar Delwar Hossain
| image               = Khandaker Delwar Hossain.jpg
| caption             = 
| office              = [[General Secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]
| term_start          = 3 September 2007
| term_end            = 16 March 2011
| predecessor         = [[Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan]]
| successor           = [[Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir]]
| constituency_MP1    = [[Manikganj-1]]
| term_start1         = 1991
| term_end1           = 2006
| predecessor1        = Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman
| successor1          = ABM Anowarul Haque
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1933|02|01|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Manikganj District]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
| nationality         = Bangladeshi
| alma_mater          = [[University of Dhaka]]
| death_date          = {{dda|2011|3|16|1933|02|01|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Singapore|Singapore City]], Singapore
| occupation          = Politician
| party               = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]
| awards              = [[Ekushey Padak]] (2005)
}}
'''Khondkar Delwar Hossain''' (1 February 1933 – 16 March 2011) was a [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] politician.<ref name=bpedia>{{Cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Hossain,_Khondakar_Delwar|title=Hossain, Khondakar Delwar |website=Banglapedia|access-date=6 September 2022}}</ref> He served as the secretary general of the party.<ref name=death>{{cite news|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-178052|title=Delwar passes away|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=17 March 2011|access-date=18 May 2022}}</ref> He was elected five times as a [[Member of Parliament]] from constituency [[Manikganj-1]] (Ghior-Doulatpur).<ref name=death/>

Delwar was awarded [[Ekushey Padak]] in 2005 by the [[government of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2005/02/18/d50218011817.htm|title=14 to get Ekushey Padak|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=18 February 2005|access-date=6 September 2022}}</ref><ref name=bpedia/>

==Early life and career==
Delwar was born in [[Manikganj]] in 1933. He obtained his law degree from the [[University of Dhaka]] in 1955 and was considered to be an excellent law student. He started his political career through the [[Bengali Language Movement]] in 1952. He also contested the 1954 elections from the [[Jukta Front]].<ref name=death/> In the [[1970 Pakistani general election]] he stood as a nominee of the [[National Awami Party]] faction led by [[Muzaffar Ahmed (NAP Politician)|Muzaffar Ahmed]] (NAP (M)).<ref>{{cite book |last=Chakravarty |first=S. R. |year=1988 |title=Bangladesh, the Nineteen Seventy-nine Elections |location=New Delhi |publisher=South Asian Publishers |page=122 |isbn=81-7003-088-9 |quote=Khandakar Delwar Hossain BNP Contested as NAP (M) candidate in 1970 election.}}</ref>

Hossain died on 16 March 2011 at the age of 78 in a hospital in [[Singapore|Singapore City]].<ref name=death/><ref name=bpedia/>

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