Gias Uddin Quader Chowdhury
Profile
- 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.
Recent activity
- 2026-02-17 appointment Sworn in as MP for Chittagong-6 in the 13th Parliament; assumes office on the day Tarique Rahman is sworn as PM. ↗
- 2026-02-12 vote Elected MP for Chittagong-6 (Raozan) with 112,237 votes (68.39%), defeating Bangladesh Islami Front candidate Mohammad Ilias Noori (27,146 votes, 16.54%) in the 13th general election. ↗↗
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.
Sources
- https://www.bssnews.net/district/360834
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gias_Uddin_Quader_Chowdhury
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong-6
- https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/politics/ge2bxrhzpz
- https://www.thedailystar.net/politics/news/bnp-leader-gias-gets-3yrs-jail-derogatory-remarks-against-pm-1820833
- https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/extortion-violence-bnp-issues-show-cause-notice-vice-chairman-giasuddin-quader-chowdhury
- https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/politics/raozan-clash-bnp-dissolves-ctg-north-committee-suspends-vice-chairman-giasuddin