{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jewel Arengh | native_name = জুয়েল আরেং | image = Jewel Areng 2016-07-26 (cropped).jpg | caption = Arengh in 2016 | office = Member of Parliament | constituency = Mymensingh-1 | term_start = 18 July 2016 | term_end = 10 January 2024 | predecessor = Promode Mankin | successor = | birth_date = {{birth_date and age|1 January 1983}} | birth_place = Dhobaura, Bangladesh | party = Bangladesh Awami League | father = Promode Mankin | spouse = Mirium Merila Chicham | children = 3 | committees = Standing Committee on Ministry of Youth and Sports<ref>{{Cite web |title=Standing Committee on Ministry of Youth and Sports |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/bn/parliamentary-business/2013-03-07-02-04-45/list-of-committees-bangla/name-of-committees-for-11th-parliament-english?id=4232 |access-date=2021-05-27 |website=Bangladesh Parliament |archive-date=27 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527073617/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/bn/parliamentary-business/2013-03-07-02-04-45/list-of-committees-bangla/name-of-committees-for-11th-parliament-english?id=4232 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | succeeded = Mahmudul Haque Sayem }}
'''Jewel N. Arengh''' is a Bangladeshi Garo Awami League politician and a former member of parliament from Mymensingh-1. He was the youngest member of parliament and the only Catholic.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jewel Areng |url=https://amarmp.com/mp/559/biography |access-date=14 February 2018 |work=Amarmp}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Two new Mymensingh MPs take oath |url=http://www.theindependentbd.com/arcprint/details/53154/2016-07-28 |access-date=14 February 2018 |work=The Independent |location=Dhaka}}</ref> His father, Promode Mankin, was the state minister for social welfare in the Bangladesh Awami League government.<ref>{{cite news |title=Awami League's Jewel Areng, Nazim Uddin win Mymensingh constituencies in by-elections |url=https://bdnews24.com/politics/awami-leagues-jewel-areng-nazim-uddin-win-mymensingh-constituencies-in-by-elections |access-date=14 February 2018 |work=bdnews24.com |date=18 July 2016}}</ref>
==Career== On 18 July 2016 Arengh was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-1 in a special election. The special election was held after the seat became vacant because of the death of Promode Mankin, the member of parliament and father of Jewel Arengh. Areng beat his opponent, Selina Khatun, by 155,866 votes.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mymensingh, a tribal Catholic elected to Parliament |url=http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Mymensingh,-a-tribal-Catholic-elected-to-Parliament-38120.html |access-date=14 February 2018 |work=AsiaNews}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=AL nominates Jewel, Nazim for M'singh by-polls |url=http://www.banglanews24.com/english/politics/article/53122/AL-nominates-Jewel-Nazim-for-Msingh-by-polls |access-date=14 February 2018 |work=Banglanews24.com |language=en |archive-date=15 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215023515/http://www.banglanews24.com/english/politics/article/53122/AL-nominates-Jewel-Nazim-for-Msingh-by-polls |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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