Wai Sein Aung

Wai Sein Aung (Burmese: ဝေစိန်အောင် , born 28 March 1946) is an Arakanese politician who currently serves as an Amyotha Hluttaw MP for Rakhine State No. 1 Constituency (i.e. Sittwe township). Although he is taken to be a member of Arakan National Party and is being blocked from resigning from it, he is serving as an advisory council member of the Arakan Front Party.[1][2][3][4]

Wai Sein Aung
Member of the Amyotha Hluttaw
Assumed office
1 February 2016
ConstituencyRakhine State No.1
Personal details
Born (1946-03-28) 28 March 1946
Rathedaung Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar
NationalityBurmese
Political partyArakan Front Party[1]
Spouse(s)Saw Thein Dan
ChildrenKyaw Zaw Oo and 3 other children
ParentsSaw Hla Phyu (father)
Hnin San Phyu (mother)
Alma materWorkers' College B.Sc (General)
OccupationPolitician

Early life and career

Wai was born on 20 March 1946 in Rathedaung Township, Rakhine State, Myanmar. He is an ethnic Rakhine. He graduated with B.Sc (General) from Workers' College. From 1976 to 1980, he worked as a school teacher. He had served as secretary of Arakan League for Democracy in 1988 and as general secretary of Rakhine People's Democratic Party from 1989 to 1990.[2]

Political career

He was a member of the Arakan National Party. In the 2015 Myanmar general election, he was elected as an Amyotha Hluttaw MP from Rakhine State No. 1 parliamentary constituency (i.e. Sittwe township) and his son, Kyaw Zaw Oo, was elected for the Rakhine State Hluttaw in the same Sittwe township.[5][6][7][8]

References
  1. "ဗဟိုအကြံပေးကောင်စီ ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း". Arakan Front Party Blog. March 13, 2020. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  2. "Mp Profile". Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (in Burmese). Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  3. "Amyotha Hluttaw" (in Burmese). Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  4. "'Like dictators': ANP leaders block election hopefuls from resigning". Frontier Myanmar. July 28, 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  5. "စစ်တွေမြို့နယ်မှာ သားဖနှစ်ဦး စလုံး ရွေးကောက်ပွဲအနိုင်ရ". RFA Burmese (in Burmese). 11 November 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
  6. "အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော် ပညာရေးမြှင့်တင်မှုကော်မတီကတစ်ဆင့် နိုင်ငံတော်အစိုးရကိုတင်ပြပြီး ဆရာ ဆရာမ လိုအပ်ချက်တွေကို ဖြည့်ဆည်းပေးနိုင်ဖို့ မျှော်လင့်" (in Burmese). Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  7. "Elections Results – Global New Light Of Myanmar". Myanmar1329.rssing.com. Retrieved 2018-08-22.
  8. "အေအေနဲ့ အစိုးရတပ် အပစ်ရပ်ဖို့ တင်သွင်း" (in Burmese). Retrieved 10 September 2018.


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