Former MP Maulana Farid Uddin Chowdhury passed away

Sylhet Office : Maulana Farid Uddin Chowdhury, former Member of Parliament for Sylhet-5, passed away at the age of 82 on June 12, 2026, while undergoing treatment at Ibn Sina Hospital in Sylhet.

The prominent Islamic scholar and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician served in the national parliament from 2001 to 2008.

Maulana Farid Uddin Chowdhury began his career as an imam at the Gohorpur Mosque in Balaganj. He later became the principal of the Shahjalal Jamia School in Mirabazar, Sylhet. He is also a noted businessman in Sylhet, serving as the vice chairman of Al Hamra International Shopping Centre and the chairman of An-Noor Properties Limited.

During his time at the Murari Chand College, Chowdhury became the president of the Islami Chatra Sangha, the student-wing of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami party, and was also a member of its Central Executive Council.[citation needed]

Maulana Farid Uddin Chowdhury stood up as a candidate of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami for the elections of 1986, 1991 and 1996 but was unsuccessful. During the 2001 Bangladeshi general election, he was elected to parliament for the Sylhet-5 constituency

Maulana Farid Uddin Chowdhury was born on 25 December 1947 into a Bengali Muslim family in Talbari village, Kanaighat, Sylhet District in East Bengal. His father, Abdul Haq Chowdhury, was a Mawlana. Chowdhury completed his secondary education (dakhil) at the Sylhet Government Alia Madrasah in 1959. He remained in the madrasa where he finished his alim course in 1963, fazil in 1965 and Kamil degree by 1967. He then moved on to study at the Murari Chand College, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Bengali language in 1971.