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|name = Kafiluddin Chowdhury<br />
|office = Member of National Assembly<br />
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|birth_date = 1898<br />
|birth_place = Munshiganj, British India, present day Bangladesh<br />
|death_date = 12 May 1972<br />
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|children = [[A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury]]<br />
|relatives = [[Mahi B. Chowdhury]] (grandson)<br />
|party = [[Bangladesh Awami League]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Zaman|first1=Habibuz|title=Seventy Years in a Shaky Subcontinent|year=1999|publisher=Janus Publishing Company Lim|isbn=9781857564051|pages=282|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6phSu0SDeY0C&pg=PA282|access-date=20 December 2016|language=en}}</ref><br />
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'''Kafiluddin Chowdhury''' was a [[Bangladesh]] Awami League politician and former member of Provincial and National Assembly of Pakistan.<ref name="vdr">{{cite web|last1=Chowdhury|first1=AM|title=Chowdhury, Kafiluddin|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Chowdhury,_Kafiluddin|website=Banglapedia|access-date=20 December 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Chowdhury was born in 1898 in Dayhata Majidpur, Srinagar, Munshiganj. He graduated from Hasara Kalikishore High School. He finished his law degree in Kolkata.<ref name="vdr" /><br />
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==Career==<br />
Chowdhury started his legal career in Munshiganj sub-divisional court. He moved his practice to Dhaka. He started his political career in the [[Krishak Praja Party]] of [[AK Fazlul Huq]]. He campaigned for the [[Movement for Pakistan]] In 1954 he was elected to the provincial assembly. He served as the Minister of Law, Forest, Roads and Communication, and Land ministries in the provincial government of East Pakistan.<ref name="vdr" /><br />
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He was imprisoned after president [[Ayub Khan (general)|Ayub Khan]] declared Martial Law. He was elected to the National assembly in 1970. He crossed over to India during Bangladesh Liberation War.<ref name="vdr" /><br />
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==Death and legacy==<br />
In November 1971 he had a heart attack. He moved to independent Bangladesh after the war on 31 January 1972. He died on 12 May 1972. His son [[Badruddoza Chowdhury]] would become the 13th [[President of Bangladesh]] for a short stint of only six(6) and a half months.<ref name="vdr" /><br />
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