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Ishraque Hossain

BNP · Dhaka-6 · verified (verified 2026-05-17)

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Party
BNP
Constituency
Dhaka-6
Terms
1
Disclosed wealth
—
Criminal cases
0
Education
O and A Levels, Scholastica School, Dhaka; BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering, University of Hertfordshire, UK; MSc Mechanical Engineering, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Cabinet role
State Minister for Liberation War Affairs

Ishraque Hossain is embroiled in the DSCC mayoral oath controversy: he holds a court-backed gazette as Dhaka South mayor but has not been formally sworn in; BNP high command urged him to step back after the standoff disrupted city services and damaged party image (as of May 2026). Concurrently serves as State Minister for Liberation War Affairs.

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Provenance & notes

Constituency 179 confirmed as Dhaka-6 across EC records, Wikipedia, Dhaka Tribune tracker, and BSS. Boundary covers Dhaka South City Corporation wards 34 and 37-46 (Sutrapur, Wari, Gendaria, part of Kotwali); these are city wards, not upazilas in the upazila sense. boundary_redrawn_2024 is false: Dhaka-6 was not among the 46 seats redrawn in the EC's September 2025 delimitation gazette. Winner vote count 78,850 cross-verified: TBS News (constituency tracker and live results), Prothom Alo Dhaka seats margin table, Financial Express. Runner-up Abdul Mannan (Jamaat-e-Islami) 55,697 votes; margin 23,153 votes. EC reports 292,283 registered voters; turnout reported at 47.69% (approx 139,388 votes cast). Total valid votes and percentage shares are set to null: the exact total valid vote figure is not confirmed from a primary source, and computing percentages from an unverified denominator would violate data integrity rules. EC affidavit data (wealth, income, criminal cases) not publicly indexed; set to null/empty per EC-only rule. Ishraque's age is 38 as of election date (DOB 5 April 1987). This is his first parliamentary term; he is also the declared (not yet sworn-in) DSCC mayor via an April 2026 EC gazette following a March 2026 Electoral Tribunal verdict. His DSCC mayor standoff is the dominant recent controversy in the 90-day window.

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