{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Shawkat Chowdhury | native_name = শওকত চৌধুরী | native_name_lang = bn | constituency_MP = Nilphamari-4 | term_start = 29 January 2014 | term_end = 28 January 2019 | predecessor = A. A. Maruf Saklain | successor = Ahsan Adelur Rahman | party = Jatiya Party | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|08|01|df=y}} }}
'''Shawkat Chowdhury''' (born 1 August 1963)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Constituency 15_10th_En |url=http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-10th-parliament-members-english?layout=edit&id=2433 |access-date=2022-05-22 |website=Bangladesh Parliament |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406180218/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/index.php/en/mps/members-of-parliament/former-mp-s/list-of-10th-parliament-members-english?layout=edit&id=2433 |archive-date=2023-04-06}}</ref> is a Bangladeshi politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Nilphamari-4 constituency during 2014–2019.
==Career== Chowdhury was elected to parliament from Nilphamari-4 in 2014 as a candidate of the Jatiya Party in an uncontested election.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nilphamari-4: JP leader 'asks' followers to support BNP candidate |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/bangladesh-national-election-2018/news/nilphamari-4-jp-leader-asks-followers-support-bnp-candidate-1678420 |access-date=5 April 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=25 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> In 2017, he was imprisoned for defaulting on 1.34 billion taka loan from Bangladesh Commerce Bank.<ref>{{cite news |title=MP Shawkat must pay Tk 50 million to retain bail |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/mp-shawkat-must-pay-tk-50-million-to-retain-bail |access-date=5 April 2019 |work=bdnews24.com |date=4 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=MP Shawkat's bail to be scrapped if he doesn't pay Tk25cr |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/jatiya-party-mp-shawkat-chowdhury-bail-be-scrapped-if-he-doesnot-pay-tk25cr-1480189 |access-date=5 April 2019 |work=The Daily Star |date=22 October 2017 |language=en}}</ref>
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