Abdus Salam Azad
আব্দুস সালাম আজাদ
Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
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Abdus Salam Azad is a member of the 13th Parliament elected from Munshiganj-2 and Joint Secretary General of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Abdus Salam Azad is the member of parliament for Munshiganj-2 (Louhajang and Tongibari upazilas) in the 13th Parliament. He has entered Parliament for the first time, for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). In the party he serves as a central joint secretary general. In Parliament he is a member of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Industries.
Salam Azad was born on 3 January 1961. He is the son of Joynal Abedin and Jahanara Begum.
He served as senior vice-president of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, the BNP's youth organisation. In May 2015 he became an assistant organising secretary of the BNP, and in May 2022 he was appointed the party's organising secretary for Dhaka Division. In October 2025 he was made a joint secretary general of the BNP.
In the election to the 13th Parliament held on 12 February 2026, he was elected as the BNP's nominated candidate with 121,154 votes under the sheaf of paddy symbol.
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Constituency
Boundaries from the Election Commission's description of the seats, drawn on the maps of OpenStreetMap (upazilas), OCHA (city corporations) and geoBoundaries (city wards; BBS, 2015); approximate. Background map from OpenStreetMap.
Terms in Parliament
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)BNPAccording to the Parliament Secretariat, he has been elected an MP once. Parliament’s database holds the records of the 4th, 5th and 7th to 12th Parliaments; it has no lists for the 1st to 3rd and the 6th, so an earlier term in those, if any, does not appear here.
Votes won in the 2026 election
All results for the seat →- Abdus Salam AzadBNPWinner121,15461.6%
- Majedul Islam
NCP58,57329.8% - K, M, Billal
Islami Andolan13,3676.8% - Md. Noman MiaJatiya Party (Ershad)2,8571.5%
- Ashiq MahmudIFB6510.3%
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Seat: Munshiganj-2
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