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Gias Uddin Quader Chowdhury

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

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Party
BNP
Constituency
Chittagong-6
Terms
3
Disclosed wealth
৳148,260,955
Criminal cases
1
Education
Cabinet role

Elected BNP MP for Raozan (Chittagong-6); party vice-chairman post remains suspended since July 2025 Raozan intra-party violence; no committee assignment confirmed as of May 2026.

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Provenance & notes

Vote counts (112,237 winner; 27,146 runner-up) sourced from BSS official results relay and corroborated by TBS search; Wikipedia shows slightly lower unofficial figures (111,201 / 26,696) which predate final EC certification -- BSS used as primary. Total valid votes (164,105) from Wikipedia turnout figure for 339,988 registered electors (48.27% turnout); top three candidates account for 161,501 votes leaving 2,604 to other candidates, consistent. Vote shares and margin independently derived: 112,237/164,105 = 68.39%; 27,146/164,105 = 16.54%; margin = 51.85 pp. Third-place finisher was Jamaat candidate Md Shahjahan Manju (22,118 votes). Constituency covers Raozan upazila only (post-2014 renumbering); not redrawn in 2024 EC delimitation (46 seats redrawn, Ctg-6 not among them). Gias Uddin born 1953 (age 73 at verification). Prior terms: Chittagong-7 via Jatiya Party by-election July 1986; Chittagong-6 with BNP in 1996; 2026 is his third parliamentary term. BNP vice-chairman post suspended July 2025 by central party after show-cause for alleged extortion and violent factionalism in Raozan. 2019 criminal conviction (3 yrs, derogatory remarks against PM Hasina) is Hasina-era case; obtained HC bail; no confirmed post-Feb-2026 acquittal or reinstatement from EC affidavit -- retained in criminal_cases as unresolved. Wealth (movable assets Tk 14 crore 82 lakh 60 thousand 955 = BDT 148,260,955) from EC nomination affidavit per Prothom Alo pre-election disclosure report. No education data found across Wikipedia, Prothom Alo, or TBS sources.

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