Panchanan Biswas

Panchanan Biswas is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Khulna-1 constituency from 2014 to 2024. He is one of the few Hindu Members of parliament in Bangladesh.

Career Biswas was elected to parliament in 1996 by elections from Khulna-1 as candidate of Bangladesh Awami League candidate. The seat was won in the 1996 general election by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. In parliament he questioned Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 1998, if the Chittagong Hill Tracts peace treaty had curbed the rights of Bengali People living there. He was reelected in 2001 from Khulna-1. He was elected to Parliament in 2014 on a Bangladesh Awami League nomination from Khulna-1. He is a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts.