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Aftab Uddin Chowdhury
Office Member of Parliament for Mymensingh-10





Term start 1979
Term end 1984
Predecessor Shamsul Haque
Successor Enamul Haque





Born 1 March 1913
Born Dhampur, Bhaluka, Mymensingh District, Bengal Presidency
Died Template:Death date and age




Political party Bangladesh Muslim League


Children Aman Ullah Chowdhury




Aftab Uddin Chowdhury (Template:Lang-bn), also known as Chan Miah (Template:Lang-bn), is a Bangladesh Muslim League politician, diplomat and the former Member of Parliament for the Mymensingh-10 constituency.

Biography

The Bhaluka Pilot High School, established by Aftab in 1948.

Chowdhury was born into a wealthy Bengali Muslim zamindari family in Dhampur, Bhaluka, Mymensingh District on 1 March 1913.[1] His parents were Khan Sahib Abedullah Chowdhury and Halimunnesa Chowdhurani.

In 1948, Aftab Uddin Chowdhury was the founding secretary of the Bhaluka Pilot High School.[2] He was a member of the 4th National Assembly of Pakistan from 1965 to 1969, representing the Pakistan Muslim League in the Mymensingh-VI constituency.[3] The Dhaka-Mymensingh highway was built in the regime of Ayub Khan because of the proposal given by Chowdhury. He was elected to parliament for Mymensingh-10 as a Bangladesh Muslim League candidate in the 1979 Bangladeshi general election.[4] He died on 24 July 1985.[5]

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