Tarique Rahman
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| Native name | তারেক রহমান |
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20 November 1967 Karachi, West Pakistan |
| Residence | London, United Kingdom |
| Title | Senior Vice Chairman |
| Political party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
| Spouse(s) | Zubaida Rahman |
| Children | Zaima Rahman |
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| Relatives | Arafat Rahman (brother) |
| Website | www |
Tarique Rahman (also spelled as Tareq Rahman; born 20 November 1967) is a Bangladeshi politician. He is the current Senior Vice Chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
Tarique Rahman is the son of Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia. He was born on 20 November 1967 in Karachi, Pakistan. His father was the 7th President of Bangladesh and his mother served as Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
He was a student of Dhaka Residential Model College.
In 1988, Rahman started his political career as a primary member of the party's Gabtali Upazila and later Bogra District committee member.
Rahman actively assembled support for the party during the national elections of 1991, when the transition was taking place from the autocratic ruling to the democratic government. He was a member of the BNP’s National Campaign Strategy Committee, and was also responsible for coordinating the election campaigns in five constituencies from which his mother Khaleda Zia was contesting. During that period, he proactively organized the BNP units of Bogra and changed the inherent cultures to make politics more production and development oriented.
After the BNP's success in the national elections of 1991 and the formation of the new government, Rahman was offered a senior role in the party as recognition of his contributions. However, he was reluctant to take up a higher position in order to have enough time to strengthen the party at the grassroots level. For many years, he remained active in developing the Bogra units of the BNP. During the national elections of 1996, the party grassroots and the senior leadership requested Rahman to contest a constituency from Bogra. But he declined the offer with a view to furthering his work at the grassroots levels and coordinating the election campaigns for his mother.
During the ruling of the Awami League government in 1996–2001, Rahman mobilized movements against the actions of the government. He actively campaigned to address issues of economic deprivation and started championing a countrywide consultation program aimed at publicizing the plight of the people living in rural areas.
This large-scale program, the first in the history of Bangladesh of this nature, drove mass mobilization against the government, which in turn, played an instrumental role in fostering the return of the BNP to power. He established the secret ballot system in Bogra to elect leaders through open council.
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