Zahir Uddin Swapan is the adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and a Member of Parliament for the Barisal-1 constituency. Swapan was elected lawmaker for two times in a row in the 7th and 8th parliamentary elections in 1996 and 2001, respectively as well. Swapan was expelled from the party during the 2008 army-backed caretaker government. At that time, he was the information and research secretary of the BNP central committee.
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