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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Abdul Halim Chowdhury
|native_name = আবদুল হালিম চৌধুরী
|native_name_lang = bn
|constituency_MP = [[Dhaka-2]]
|term_start = 2 April 1979
|term_end = 24 March 1982
|predecessor = [[Moslem Uddin Khan]]
|successor = [[Burhan Uddin Khan]]
|birth_place = [[Manikganj District|Manikganj]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1928|2|1|df=yes}}
|death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|10|7|1928|2|1|df=yes}}
|alma_mater = [[University of Rajshahi]]
|party = [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]]
}}

'''Abdul Halim Chowdhury''' (1 February 1928 – 7 October 1987)<ref name=bpedia>{{cite Banglapedia |article=Chowdhury,_Abdul_Halim}}</ref> was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician, Member of Parliament, and government minister. He is a retired captain of Pakistan Army and fought in the Bangladesh Liberation War.<ref>{{cite news |title=Manikganj, Bogra freed this day|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/country/manikganj-bogra-freed-day-1329196|work=The Daily Star|date=13 December 2016|access-date=31 December 2022}}</ref>

==Early life==
Chowdhury was born on 1 February 1928 in Elachipur, [[Shivalaya Upazila|Shivalaya]], [[Manikganj District|Manikganj]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]. He graduated from Faridpur Zilla School. He went on to [[Rajshahi College]], finished his BA in economics from [[Rajshahi University]]. He started his master's degree at Dhaka University.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

==Career==
Chowdhury joined the Pakistan army in 1950 while still a student. In the army he served as the Adjutant and Quarter Master in the [[1st Punjab Regiment]]. He served as the aide-de-camp to the GOC of the 14th division. He was the commanding officer of University Officers' Training Corps Battalion in [[East Pakistan]]. In 1962 he retired from the Army over health reasons. He joined the East Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation. He was placed in charged of setting up a sugar mill in [[Kushtia District|Kushtia]].{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

In 1966, he joined the [[National Awami Party]]. 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 name="Chakravarty1988">{{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=Abdul Halim Chowdhury BNP Contested as NAP (M) candidate in 1970 and 1973 elections.}}</ref>

During the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] in 1971 he helped set up the revolutionary committee of [[Manikganj District|Manikganj]]. He was placed in charge of military operations in Dhaka Sadar and [[Gazipur]].{{citation needed|date=May 2022}} He established the Halim Bahini, a paramilitary force under his command, to fight in the Bangladesh Liberation war.<ref>{{Cite news |date=26 March 2019|title=The irregular forces of Bangladesh Liberation War|url=https://www.thedailystar.net/supplements/independence-day-special-2019/news/the-irregular-forces-bangladesh-liberation-war-1719757|access-date=14 July 2020|work=The Daily Star|language=en}}</ref> After the [[Independence of Bangladesh]], he stood again as a NAP (M) candidate in the [[1973 Bangladeshi general election]].<ref name="Chakravarty1988" /> He became the president of [[United People's Party (Bangladesh)|United People's Party]]. In 1979 he was elected to Parliament from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He served in the cabinet of President [[Ziaur Rahman]] as the minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperative. He later was in the cabinet of President [[Abdus Sattar (president)|Abdus Sattar]] as the minister of Food and Relief. He was a member of BNP's National executive committee. He joined General [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]]'s [[Jatiya Party (Ershad)|Jatiya party]] after it came to power. He was the minister of Agriculture and Food.{{citation needed|date=May 2022}}

Chowdhury died on 7 October 1987.<ref name=bpedia/>

==References==
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[[Category:University of Rajshahi alumni]]
[[Category:Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians]]
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[[Category:Mukti Bahini personnel]]
[[Category:2nd Jatiya Sangsad members]]
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