Md. Nurul Haque Nur
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.
Recent activity
- 2026-05-14 statement Called for immediate action to stop sea-route irregular migration at BRAC Migration Programme workshop in Dhaka; warned that those enabling risky migration will face government action. ↗
- 2026-05-06 statement At Migrants' Conference-2026 (OKUP), said government is prioritizing skills development through 104 Technical Training Centres to improve overseas employment quality. ↗
- 2026-04-01 international Met Japan Foundation Managing Director Koike Wakao in Dhaka; called for establishment of a Japan Foundation office in Bangladesh. ↗
- 2026-03-01 statement Announced government plan to provide loans up to Tk 1 million to students seeking higher education abroad to meet bank solvency requirements. ↗
- 2026-02-13 constituency_visit Arranged free launch service (Royal Cruise-2) to transport voters from Galachipa-Dashmina back to workplaces in Dhaka and Chittagong after election day. ↗
- 2026-02-12 appointment Elected MP for Patuakhali-3 (Galachipa-Dashmina) with 73,934 votes, margin of 26,004 over runner-up Hasan Mamun (47,930 votes). ↗↗
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).
Sources
- https://www.bssnews.net/national-parlament-election-2026/360499
- https://www.thedailystar.net/news/national-election-2026/news/mamun-congratulates-nur-patuakhali-3-winner-4104741
- https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh-election-2026/patuakhali-3-bnps-hasan-mamun-congratulates-nurul-haque-nur-victory-1360251
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patuakhali-3
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurul_Haque_Nur
- https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/c6zxt1qas0
- https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/politics/nurs-affidavit-shows-wife-owns-three-times-more-land-him-1323531
- https://www.bssnews.net/news/387141
- https://www.bssnews.net/others/384798
- https://businessinbangladesh.com.bd/state-minister-for-expatriates-welfare-and-overseas-employment-md-nurul-haque-calls-for-establishment-of-japan-foundation-office-in-bangladesh/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_13th_Jatiya_Sangsad
- https://networkbangladesh.com/patuakhali-3-mp-elect-nurul-haque-nur-arranges-free-launch-service-to-transport-voters-back-to-workplaces-after-election/