Md. Abdul Gafur
Profile
- Party
- Jamaat-e-Islami
- Constituency
- Kushtia-2
- Terms
- 1
- Disclosed wealth
- —
- Criminal cases
- 0
- Education
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- Cabinet role
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Newly elected MP; no parliamentary statements or committee positions confirmed in public sources within the 90-day window (Feb-May 2026).
Recent activity
- 2026-02-13 other Declared elected from Kushtia-2 (Bheramara-Mirpur) after defeating BNP's Ragib Rouf Chowdhury by 46,534 votes in the 13th National Parliament election. ↗↗
- 2026-02-12 other 13th Jatiya Sangsad constituted; Abdul Gafur assumed office as MP for Kushtia-2. ↗
Provenance & notes
Vote counts sourced from BD Pratidin and UNB (unofficial results, 170 polling stations). Total valid votes (338,188) is the sum of all confirmed candidate tallies: Gafur 189,816 + Ragib Rouf Chowdhury 143,282 + Md Babul Akter (Islami Front Bangladesh) 1,123 + Md Ali (Islami Andolan Bangladesh) 3,887 + Nur Uddin Ahmed (Bangladesh Communist Party) 80. An AI-aggregated summary cited 348,911 total votes but this figure has no identified primary source and implies 10,723 unaccounted votes; it is excluded. Vote shares (56.13%, 42.37%) and margin (13.76 pp) computed from the confirmed 338,188 sum. wealth_disclosed_bdt and criminal_cases are null: EC affidavit PDFs referenced by Wikipedia but specific figures not publicly extracted in any indexed source at time of verification. Do not impute. Prior local government record: twice UP member, three times UP Chairman, twice Mirpur Upazila Parishad Chairman (Feb 2009-Jan 2013 and May-Feb 2014). This is his first term in the Jatiya Sangsad. Age, education, and committee assignments not confirmed in any indexed source. activity_score set to 2: election reported in multiple outlets but no post-election parliamentary activity found in public sources within the 90-day window.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushtia-2
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Gafur_(Bangladeshi_politician)
- https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%AB%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B0
- https://en.bd-pratidin.com/national/2026/02/13/56887
- https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh-election-2026/jamaat-wins-three-constituencies-kushtia-bnp-secures-one-1360311
- https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh-election-2026/17-candidates-lose-deposits-kushtia-jamaat-wins-3-seats-1362261
- https://unb.com.bd/category/Election/jamaat-leads-in-3-of-four-kushtia-constituencies-bnp-in-one/179478
- https://www.risingbd.com/bangladesh/news/639450
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_13th_Jatiya_Sangsad