Mahbubur Rob Sadi

Dewan Mahbubur Rob Sadi Chaudhuri (Bengali: দেওয়ান মাহবুবুর রব সাদী চৌধুরী; 10 May 1942 – 17 October 2016) was a Bengali politician. He was a 1971 Liberation War veteran and war hero who led the Jalalpur sub-sector (sector 4) as sub-sector commander of the Mukti Bahini under Sector Commander Major General Chitta Ranjan Dutta. Sadi was awarded Bir Protik on 15 December 1973 for demonstration of personal acts of valor during the war. He was elected a member of parliament in 1979. Besides being a freedom fighter and politician, Sadi was also a singer, poet, columnist, and songwriter. He was an active columnist for the Manab Zamin, and his articles and letters appeared in various national and international newspapers and magazines like The Economist, The Daily Star, The Daily Ittefaq, and Prothom Alo. Sadi served as the executive director of Delta Life Insurance Company Ltd, and later founded a socio-political organization named Centre for Democratic Practice, dedicated towards fostering democracy and national consciousness and consensus in Bangladesh.