AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury

Abdul Qasim Mohammad Badruddoza Chowdhury , mostly AQM Badrudozza Chowdhury ( Bengali : একিউএম বদরুদ্দোজা চৌধুরী , Ekiuem Badaruddojā Caudhurī ; born  November 1, 1932 in Munsif Bari, Kumilla , Bengal , then British India , now Bangladesh) is a politician and former President of Bangladesh .

Life

Study and job

After studying medicine in Dhaka , Cardiff , London and Edinburgh , the son of a former minister worked as a doctor and professor of medicine. He later became President of the National Anti-Tuberculosis Association of Bangladesh (NATAB) and President of the International Union against Tuberculosis of LUNA Disease (IUATLD) for the Asia-Pacific zone, based in Paris .

He was also a recognized writer, playwright and essayist in his home country and received a National Television Award as such in 1976 .

minister

On April 15, 1979, he became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Population in the Presidential Cabinet of Ziaur Rahman . In this position he also took part in several international specialist conferences.

Together with Rahman he founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in 1979 and became its first general secretary and parliamentary group chairman after the 1979 election. He later took on the post of Minister for Education, Science, Technology and Culture. Chowdhury also founded the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and became its chairman.

From October 10, 2001 until he took office as President on November 14, 2001, he was Foreign Minister in the interim cabinet of Khaleda Zia .

President

On November 14, 2001, he succeeded Shahabuddin Ahmed as President of Bangladesh. He resigned on June 21, 2002 after the ruling BNP had asked him to resign. The reason for the demand for resignation was, from the point of view of the BNP, that Chowdhury had refused to visit the grave of the founder of the BNP and former military ruler Ziaur Rahman on the 21st anniversary of his death. Jamiruddin Sircar was succeeded as president for a transitional period before Iajuddin Ahmed finally became president on September 6, 2002.

Web links

• Biography on virtualbangladesh.com (English, archive link)
• Biography on the website of the Government of Bangladesh (English)
• Biographical notes in rulers.org (English)