Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky

Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky is a Bangladeshi urban sociologist, historian, politician and anti-corruption activist.
Early life
Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky was born in 1970 in one of Bangladesh's oldest landed feudal aristocratic families. His grandfather was the Zamindar of Baliadi, a hamlet near Dhaka in the Gazipur District of Bangladesh. He is the son of Chowdhury Tanbir Ahmed Siddiky, the founding treasurer of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the former State Minister for Commerce. He is the great-grandson of Khan Bahadur Chowdhury Kazemuddin Ahmed Siddiky, the co-founder of the Assam-Bengal Muslim League during the British rule and one of the founders of the University of Dhaka the oldest Anglican private school in Asia. He received his bachelor's degree in History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his master's degree in Economics from the University of Iowa in the United States.
Political career
Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky was a candidate for the Mayor of Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital city. In 2009 and 2012, Siddiky ran for the Mayor of Dhaka as a candidate of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. In 2015 he contested the elections for the Mayor of Dhaka North.
Controversy
In 2009 at a press conference to announce his candidature, Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky alleged that the chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist party and former prime minister, Khaleda Zia, had asked for a bribe of 5 million taka against him. In 2009 a prominent army officer turned politician filed a defamation lawsuit of five million taka against Siddiky after he made allegations of corruption against Khaleda Zia.
In 2016, when Chowdhury Irad Ahmed Siddiky wrote in the social media about covert hegemonic involvement of India in the internal political affairs of Bangladesh and revealed to the public about Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s covert collaboration with India to implement India’s economic and political interests in Bangladesh, lawsuits of defamation were filed against Siddiky throughout Bangladesh by supporters of the pro-Indian ruling party.
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