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Mujibur Rahman

Jamaat-e-Islami · Rajshahi-1 · verified (verified 2026-05-17)

Profile

Party
Jamaat-e-Islami
Constituency
Rajshahi-1
Terms
2
Disclosed wealth
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Criminal cases
0
Education
BA Honours and MA in English Literature, University of Rajshahi; Diploma in Arabic and Persian, University of Rajshahi; passed BCS education cadre exam (did not enter service)
Cabinet role
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Opposition MP (Jamaat-e-Islami bloc) for Rajshahi-1; Senior Nayeb-e-Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami central committee; drew controversy in March 2026 over alleged exclusion of Hindu religious recitation at a state event in his constituency.

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Provenance & notes

Winner vote count (171,786) confirmed by BSS and Wikipedia independently. Runner-up (Major General Retd. Sharif Uddin, BNP) received 169,902 votes; margin is 1,884 votes. Three other candidates also contested (Mir Md. Shahjahan, Gano Odhikar Parishad; Md. Al-Saad, Independent; Md. Abdur Rahman, AB Party) but their individual counts were not published in accessible sources; as a result total_valid_votes and vote_share_percent are left null. Registered voters: 464,704 (230,884 male, 233,817 female, 3 third-gender) across 159 polling centres (BSS). Rahman was born 1 January 1955, age 71 at time of verification. He previously served as Rajshahi-1 MP May 1986 to March 1988. Party role: Nayeb-e-Ameer since 13 December 2022. EC affidavit (wealth, criminal cases) not publicly accessible at time of verification; criminal_cases left empty, wealth_disclosed_bdt null. No committee assignments published yet (13th parliament newly seated). Committee_attendance_pct and parliamentary_attendance_pct null: parliament has not published attendance records for the 13th session.

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