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Md. Nurul Haque Nur

Gono Odhikar Parishad · Patuakhali-3 · verified (verified 2026-05-17)

Profile

Party
Gono Odhikar Parishad
Constituency
Patuakhali-3
Terms
1
Disclosed wealth
৳9,043,000
Criminal cases
1
Education
SSC Gol Abdur Rahim Secondary School, Companirhat (2010); HSC Uttara High School and College, Dhaka (2012); BA (English) University of Dhaka (2013-14 session, incomplete); briefly attended Patuakhali Science and Technology University
Cabinet role
State Minister for Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment

State Minister for Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment; actively pushing skilled-migration reform and irregular-migration crackdown.

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Provenance & notes

Vote counts (winner 73,934, runner-up 47,930, margin 26,004) confirmed by BSS, Daily Star, and TBS. Total valid votes cast not reported by any source; vote_share_percent and margin_percent set to null. Registered voters: 375,871 (189,020 male, 186,848 female, 3 transgender) per EC. Nur ran on the 'truck' symbol under Gono Odhikar Parishad with BNP alliance backing; runner-up Hasan Mamun ran as independent with 'horse' symbol (BNP rebel, later congratulated Nur). Two other candidates: Muhammad Shah Alam (Jamaat-e-Islami, 'scales') and Md Abu Bakar Siddiqui (Islami Andolan, 'hand fan'). Wealth figure: EC affidavit reports movable assets Tk 89.82 lakh (cash Tk 28.38 lakh, bank Tk 2.89 lakh, unlisted shares Tk 2.75 lakh, business/inherited Tk 55.80 lakh) plus 82 decimals land ~Tk 61,000; total own assets ~Tk 90.43 lakh = BDT 9,043,000. Wife Maria Akter (secondary school teacher) holds separate 3 acres land worth Tk 10 lakh, not included in wealth_disclosed_bdt. Annual income: Tk 15.85 lakh business + Tk 4.54 lakh other = Tk 20.39 lakh = BDT 2,039,000. Cases: 6 pending per EC affidavit; acquitted in 8; 15 total filed (second source). TBS affidavit article (primary source) returned HTTP 403; figures sourced from TBS Facebook post and search result excerpts citing the same article. Nur was also briefly State Minister for Labour and Employment (Feb-Mar 2026) before moving to Expatriates' Welfare. Birthplace: Char Biswas union, Galachipa upazila (the constituency he now represents).

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