Tarique Rahman

Tariq Rahman (Bengali: তারেক রহমান) (also spelled as Tareq Rahman) (born: 20 November 1967) is a Bangladeshi politician. He is the current Senior Vice Chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

Early career and education

Tarique Rahman is the son of Ziaur Rahman, who announced the Independence of Bangladesh and was the Commander of BDF Sectors 1 & 11 during Bangladesh Liberation War, and Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He was born on November 20, 1967 in Karachi, Pakistan.

He was a student of Dhaka Residential Model College.

Political career

In 1988 he started his political career as a primary member of the party's Gabtali Upazila and later Bogra District committee member.

He 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 organised the BNP units of Bogra and changed the inherent cultures to make politics more production and development oriented.