Sarwar Jamal Nizam
Profile
- Party
- BNP
- Constituency
- Chittagong-13
- Terms
- 4
- Disclosed wealth
- —
- Criminal cases
- 1
- Education
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- Cabinet role
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Treasury bench MP actively engaged in constituency development (Anwara canal works, May 2026) and parliamentary question time; no committee assignment confirmed as of verification date.
Recent activity
- 2026-05-10 constituency_visit Inaugurated Chatari Kanduria Canal and Sangu River connection canal re-excavation works in Anwara Upazila; urged officials that 'there is no scope for corruption in canal excavation projects'; cited PM Tarique Rahman's village-development agenda. ↗
- 2026-04-16 speech Posed starred question in Jatiya Sangsad on unfilled public-administration posts; State Minister outlined plan to fill 3,110 vacancies within five years. ↗
- 2026-04-06 speech Spoke in parliament on family card distribution programme, calling it 'a major step in women's development'; linked initiative to Khaleda Zia's 1996 women-focused policies. ↗
- 2026-02-17 appointment Sworn in as MP for Chittagong-13 in the 13th Jatiya Sangsad on the day Tarique Rahman was sworn in as Prime Minister. ↗
- 2026-02-12 vote Elected MP for Chittagong-13 with 126,192 votes (57.66%), defeating Bangladesh Islami Front's S. M. Shahjahan (51,450 votes, 23.51%) and Jamaat's Mahmudul Hasan (34,035 votes, 15.55%); majority margin 74,742 votes (34.15 pp). ↗↗
Provenance & notes
Constituency geographic coverage: the task description specifies 'Anwara + Karnafuli upazilas' but EN Wikipedia (Chittagong-13 article) documents a third component -- five union parishads of Patiya Upazila (Bara Uthan, Char Lakshya, Char Patharghata, Juldha, Sikalbaha) -- which were added via the 2014 EC redistricting and remain part of the seat. The BN Wikipedia article corroborates only Anwara and Karnaphuli as the named upazilas; the Patiya partial inclusion is not prominent in Bangla-language coverage but is consistent with 395,246 registered electors (a larger voter base than Anwara + Karnaphuli alone). boundary_redrawn_2024 is False: the last major redraw was 2014 (EN Wikipedia, Dhaka Tribune 2024 delimitation article did not list Ctg-13 among redrawn seats). Vote shares independently verified: 126,192/218,841 = 57.66%; 51,450/218,841 = 23.51%; margin = 34.15 pp; turnout = 218,841/395,246 = 55.37%. Third candidate Mahmudul Hasan (Jamaat-e-Islami) received 34,035 votes (15.55%); top three account for 211,677 of 218,841 valid votes, leaving 7,164 to remaining candidates. Wealth (wealth_disclosed_bdt) not recovered from available EC affidavit summaries: Prothom Alo millionaire-list article notes Nizam is among 15 of 17 BNP Chattogram nominees who are millionaires but does not publish his individual total; spouse Naznin Nizam holds lowest spousal cash of any Chattogram BNP candidate (Tk 18,492). Age 81 computed from Wikipedia DOB 1 January 1945 as of 2026-05-17. Prior terms sourced from Wikipedia: 6th Jatiya Sangsad (Feb-Mar 1996, short parliament), 7th (Jun 1996-Jul 2001, BNP in opposition), 8th (Oct 2001-Oct 2006, BNP in government); current 13th is his 4th term. RAB arrest (June 2007) occurred during 1/11 caretaker period; Wikipedia characterises it as a false accusation; no active EC-documented criminal case found in post-2026 sources -- listed with caveat. Committee memberships: not announced in parliament.gov.bd member portal as of verification date. EC-only rule observed: all vote data derived from EC gazette-relayed BSS and Wikipedia results; no candidate self-reported figures used.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarwar_Jamal_Nizam
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong-13
- https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%9F%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE-%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%A9
- https://www.bssnews.net/district/360834
- https://www.bssnews.net/district/385834
- https://www.bssnews.net/others/375164
- https://www.bssnews.net/js-session/378353
- https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/politics/ge2bxrhzpz
- https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/l2f4jw23y3
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_13th_Jatiya_Sangsad