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Emran Ahmed Chowdhury

Emran Ahmed Chowdhury

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Current member, 13th Parliament

Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet

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Emran Ahmed Chowdhury is a member of the 13th Parliament elected from Sylhet-6 and General Secretary, Sylhet District of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

Emran Ahmed Chowdhury is the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) member of parliament elected from Sylhet-6. A lawyer and politician, he is serving in Parliament for the first time, as a member of the 13th Parliament. In Parliament he is a member of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs.

He was born on 1 November 1967 in Kotoyalpur village, Hetimganj, Lakshmipasha union, Golapganj upazila, Sylhet district. He is the son of Ziaur Rahman Chowdhury and Afia Khatun Chowdhury.

After passing the SSC from Atharia High School and the HSC from Murari Chand College, Sylhet, he obtained BSc and MSc degrees from the Department of Physics at the University of Chittagong. He later obtained an MA from the Department of Bangla at the University of Dhaka and an LLM from Sylhet International University. He completed a diploma in leadership, management, politics and international risk at the University of South Wales in the United Kingdom, and the Graduate Diploma in Law course at Nottingham Trent University.

On 10 January 2019 he joined the Sylhet District Bar Association as a lawyer. He is the editor and publisher of the Sylhet-based daily Sachitra Sylhet.

As a student he was general secretary of Sylhet district Chhatra Dal. He is currently general secretary of Sylhet district BNP. In the 13th parliamentary election held on 12 February 2026, he was elected a member of parliament for the first time, winning 108,612 votes with the sheaf of paddy symbol. He is married to Syeda Nurunnahar and is the father of two daughters.

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Born1 November 1967 (aged 58)
BirthplaceKotoalpur, Lakshmipasha union, Golapganj, Sylhet
GenderMale
EducationUniversity of Chittagong (BSc and MSc in Physics)University of Dhaka (MA in Bangla)Sylhet International University (LLM)
ProfessionLawyer
FatherZiaur Rahman Chowdhury
MotherAfia Khatun Chowdhury
Freedom fighterYes
Current term17 February 2026 to 16 February 2031
Elected an MPOnce

Constituency

Sylhet-6

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

13th Parliament, 2026Sylhet-6Current termBNP

According 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

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13th Parliament, 2026Candidates' total: 206,360 votes
  1. Emran Ahmed ChowdhuryBNPWinner108,61252.6%
  2. Md Selim UddinJamaat-e-Islami97,74847.4%
Source: The Business Standard. Not checked against the Election Commission's gazette. The source has no vote count for 3 candidates. English Wikipedia gives the winner's votes as 109,917.Original page

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Seat: Sylhet-6

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Area

(a) Beanibazar and (b) Golapganj upazilas

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