Kalparanjan Chakma

Kalparanjan Chakma
State Minister for Youth and Sports
Personal details
Born 1917/1918
Died 25 July 2018
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Political party Bangladesh Awami League

Kalparanjan Chakma (1917/1918 – 25 July 2018) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former State Minister of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs.[1][2] He helped negotiate the release of two Danes and a Briton kidnapped by Shanti Bahini members in Chittagong Hill Tracts.[3]

A tribal leader[4] and a former M.P. from Khagrachari,[5] he died on 25 July 2018 in Dhaka, at the age of 100.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Country crippled in hartal". archive.thedailystar.net. The Daily Star. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Bangladesh hostage release stalled". news.bbc.co.uk. BBC News. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Bangladesh kidnappers toughen stance". news.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  4. ↑ "Bangladesh Backgrounder". satp.org. SATP. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Khagrachhari AL 'dumps' Kalpa Ranjan Chakma". archive.thedailystar.net. The Daily Star. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  6. ↑ "Former minister Kalparanjan Chakma dies at 100". bdnews24.com. 25 July 2018. Retrieved 2018-07-26.
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