M. Iqbal Hossain
Profile
- Party
- BNP
- Constituency
- Mymensingh-3
- Terms
- 1
- Disclosed wealth
- —
- Criminal cases
- 1
- Education
- B.Sc. Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
- Cabinet role
- State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief
State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief; active in ministry duties including bilateral meetings (WFP) and national preparedness events; no constituency-level visit reported in searched sources within the 90-day window.
Recent activity
- 2026-04-07 international Met WFP Country Director Simone Parchment at the Secretariat; discussed WFP's disaster response activities and expressed support for expanded WFP collaboration in Bangladesh. ↗
- 2026-03-10 statement Spoke at National Disaster Preparedness Day-2026 event at the Secretariat alongside Minister Asadul Habib Dulu; underscored year-round disaster preparedness. ↗
- 2026-02-17 appointment Sworn in as State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief in Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's cabinet; among 49 ministers and state ministers taking oath on the same day. ↗↗
- 2026-02-12 other Declared winner in Mymensingh-3 (Gouripur) in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad election with 74,478 votes, defeating independent Ahmad Tayebur Rahman (65,513 votes); margin of approximately 8,965 votes. ↗↗
Provenance & notes
Task brief labeled this seat as constituency 140. Per the EC gazette and Wikipedia's list of constituencies of the Jatiya Sangsad, constituency 140 is Jamalpur-3 (Jamalpur district). Mymensingh-3 is constituency 148. constituency_number corrected to 148 from primary sources. File retained as cnst_140.json per task brief; discrepancy logged here. Vote share percentages not computed: total valid votes not published in any searched source (5 candidates contested; raw counts 74,478 and 65,513 verified from viewsbangladesh.com and Wikipedia). Wealth figures not disclosed in Prothom Alo affidavit analysis for this candidate; left null per EC-only rule. Five criminal cases confirmed from EC affidavit (Prothom Alo, 13 Jan 2026); case details not published. Prior parliamentary terms: contested in 2008 and 2018 but did not win; 2026 is first elected term. His father Ismail Hossain Talukder was MP from Mymensingh-2 (1979). No 2024 boundary change for this seat.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mymensingh-3
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Iqbal_Hossain
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_13th_Jatiya_Sangsad
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_constituencies_of_the_Jatiya_Sangsad
- https://www.bssnews.net/others/375459
- https://www.bssnews.net/news/367731
- https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/see-who-will-become-next-ministers-state-ministers-1363801
- https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/governance/news/who-gets-which-ministry-inside-bnps-cabinet-line-4108521
- https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/politics/mgxh97gf51
- https://viewsbangladesh.com/13th-national-parliament-elections-mymensingh-district/