A. E. Sultan Mahmud Babu

A. E. Sultan Mahmud Babu is the member of parliament for Jamalpur-2 (Islampur) in the 13th Parliament. This is his third term for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). In Parliament he is a member of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Water Resources.

Sultan Mahmud Babu was born on 31 March 1955 at Sarkarpara in Gaibandha union, Islampur upazila, Jamalpur district. He is the son of Alhaj Shamsuddin Ahmed and Alhaj Nasimunnesa. He passed the SSC from Mohammadpur Government High School and the HSC from Suhrawardy College, and then obtained a BSc in chemistry from the University of Dhaka. After a long break he returned to his studies, completing a BA (Honours) in English literature in 2012 and an MA in 2013 at Darul Ihsan University, and an MBA at American Bangladesh University in 2015. He is a businessman by profession.

Active in BNP politics for several decades, Babu began his political career in the 1980s by building up the party organisation in the Islampur and Sindurmari areas. He has served as president of Islampur upazila BNP, vice-president of Jamalpur district BNP and a member of the BNP national executive committee. He was elected member of parliament for Jamalpur-2 in the February 1996 and 2001 parliamentary elections. In the 8th Parliament he served as chair of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Housing and Public Works.

In the election to the 13th Parliament held on 12 February 2026, he was elected member of parliament for the third time, winning Jamalpur-2 with 95,860 votes under the sheaf of paddy symbol.

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