Matia Chowdhury

Matia Chowdhury
মতিয়া চৌধুরী
Chowdhury in 2013
Ministry of Agriculture
Assumed office
12 January 2014[1]
Personal details
Born (1942-06-30) 30 June 1942
Pirojpur, British India (now in Bangladesh)
Political party Bangladesh Awami League
Spouse(s) Bajlur Rahman
Education University of Dhaka
Occupation Politician

Matia Chowdhury (30 June 1942) is a Bangladeshi politician. She is a presidium member of Bangladesh Awami League.[2] She is a Member of Parliament and the Minister of Agriculture under the prime ministership of Sheikh Hasina.[3][4] She held this post twice before from 1996 to 2001 and 2009 to 2013 during the previous tenure of Awami League in power.[1]

Birth and Education

Chowdhury was born on June 30, 1942 at Nazirpur of Pirozpur District. Her father Mohiuddin Ahmed Chowdhury was a police officer. She passed HSC fron Dhaka Eden College. She graduated from University of Dhaka.

Political career

She started her political career from her student life. She actively participated in the movement against the Ayub regime and the movement against the Education Commission of 1962. She was elected the Vice-President of Dhaka Eden Girls College Students’ Union in 1963 and the General Secretary of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) in 1964-65. Chowdhury is well known in South Asia for her fiery speeches and her adamant attitude, qualities that have earned her the nickname of Ogni Konna or Girl of Fire.[5] Although she started her political career with the left-wing National Awami Party, she is now one of the most senior leaders of the Awami League.[6][7] She was the president of the then East Pakistan Students’ Union in 1965-66. Between 1967 and 1969 time and again she was organizing anti Ayub movement and was detained in jail for about 2 years. She was released from jail during the mass upsurge of 1969.[8]

Personal life

Chowdhury was married to Bazlur Rahman, editor of The Sangbad, one of the oldest Bengali-language dailies still in circulation. He died on 26 February 2008.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "Hon'ble-Ministers". Cabinet Division - Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
  2. ↑ "Motia Chowdhury queues to buy rice". e-Bangladesh. Archived from the original on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
  3. ↑ "SAARC agricultural cooperation gets new momentum: Bangladesh Minister Matia". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "$4.8 million USAID grant to strengthen biotechnology partnership, food security in South". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "লাগাম টেনে কথা বলবেন, বিশ্বব্যাংককে মতিয়া চৌধুরী" [Talking about the twist, Matia Chowdhury told the World Bank]. archive.prothom-alo.com. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "Reject pro-Pakistani line of thinking: HT Imam tells BNP". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Prime minister, Awami League leaders pay homage to Bangabandhu". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  8. ↑ "Press Information Department (PID), Government of Bangladesh". pressinform.portal.gov.bd. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
  9. ↑ "Sangbad editor Bazlur Rahman dies". www.independent-bangladesh.com. Retrieved 10 April 2016.


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