Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky

Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky is a Bangladeshi politician, who is a member of the oldest, aristocratic, feudal-landholding zamindar family of Bangladesh. He is the senior-most leader and a founding member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). He served as the Minister of Commerce in the cabinet of President Ziaur Rahman and President Abdus Sattar and is also a veteran member of his party's highest decision making body, the National Standing Committee.^[1]

Family

Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky was born in 1939 into the oldest, aristocratic, landholding and feudal zamindari estate in East Bengal chartered by the Mughals, the Baliadi Estate, located today in the district of Gazipur in Bangladesh.^[2] He is the grandson of Khan Bahadur Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky, a renowned social elite, co-founder of the Assam-Bengal Muslim League during the British rule and one of the founders of the University of Dhaka. He is also a direct descendant of Nawab Shah Kutubuddin Ahmed Siddiky Koka, the first Mughal Subedar of Bengal, and adopted son of Emperor Akbar.^[3] The Siddikys trace their roots back to Abu Bakr Siddiky, the first Caliph of Islam. Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky is the father of Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky, a candidate for the Mayor of Dhaka.

Politics and business

Chowdhury Tanvir Ahmed Siddiky is the founder treasurer of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and was a member of the National Standing Committee since its inception. He was a member of the second parliament and served as state minister in 1980–81. Siddiky was the president of FBCCI in 1979 and DCCI in '76–'78 and worked as director of former National Bank of Pakistan and Janata Bank.

See also

• Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky
• Bangladeshi Political Families

References

1. ^ Political parties must work together to save democracy, The Daily Star, 2008-10-17
2. ^ Taifur, Muhammad, "A History of Dhaka", Dhaka, University Press Ltd, 1994, pp. 76
3. ^ Mukherjee, Soma. Royal Mughal Ladies. Gyan Publishing House, 2001, p. 20; Wheeler McIntosh Thackston (Translator). The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India. the University of Michigan Press, 2010, p. 356.

External links

• BNP unfazed by AL election alliance, The Daily Star

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Name	Siddiky, Tanbir Ahmed
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Short description	Served as the Minister of Commerce
Date of birth	1939
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