Joynal Abdin
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Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
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Joynal Abdin is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party member of the 13th Parliament elected from Feni-2. This page gives his profile and contact details.
Joynal Abdin is the member of parliament for Feni-2 (Feni Sadar upazila) in the 13th Parliament. Elected from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), this freedom fighter has come to Parliament for the fourth time. In political circles he is known as "VP Joynal". In Parliament he is a member of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Land.
Joynal Abdin was born in Faleshwar village, Feni. His father, Chan Mia, was an official of the Assam Bengal Railway, and his mother is Ojibennesa. He is the youngest of five siblings. After passing the SSC from Feni Government Pilot High School and the HSC and BA from Feni Government College, he obtained an MA in political science from the University of Chittagong in 1976. In his working life, alongside business, he taught in the political science department of Sonaimuri College, Noakhali, in 1977.
He became active in politics as a student. Elected VP (vice-president) of the Feni College students' union in 1970, he became known as "VP Joynal". In 1971 he was elected president of the all-party Swadhin Bangla Chhatra Sangram Parishad (independent Bangla students' action council), and on 2 March he raised the flag of Bangladesh at Feni Government College. During the Liberation War he received military training at Dehradun in India and was appointed a district zonal commander of the BLF (Bangladesh Liberation Force).
When JASAD (Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal) was formed in 1972, he became a member of its central committee and the founding general secretary of its Feni district unit. In the 4th parliamentary election in 1988 he was elected a member of parliament for the first time, from Feni-2 for JASAD. He later joined BNP, served as general secretary of Feni district BNP from 1996 to 2009, and was again elected a member of parliament from the same seat in 2001 and 2008. In Parliament he was a member of the Standing Committees on the Ministries of Finance, Textiles, Works and Liberation War Affairs. He is an adviser to the BNP chairperson.
In the 13th parliamentary election held on 12 February 2026, he was elected a member of parliament for the fourth time, winning 131,210 votes in Feni-2 with the sheaf of paddy symbol. He is married to Shahana Akter, and the couple have two sons and two daughters.
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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)BNPBangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)BNPBangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)BNPAccording to the Parliament Secretariat, he has been elected an MP 4 times in all; details of 2 of the 3 earlier terms are given here. 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 →- Joynal AbdinBNPWinner131,21059.3%
- Md Mujibur Rahman BhuiyaAB Party80,05836.2%
- Md. Ekramul Haq Bhuiyan
Islami Andolan6,8493.1% - Md. Harunur Rashid Bhuiya
Bangladesh Khelafat Majlis8200.4% - Saiful Karim MajumdarAmjanatar Dol8010.4%
- Md. Tarekul Islam Bhuiya
Gono Odhikar Parishad4090.2% - Jasim UddinSPB-M3220.1%
- Md. Abul HossainBKA3040.1%
- Samsuddin MajumdarJSD2400.1%
- Taherul IslamIBB2390.1%
Parliament Secretariat notifications
Seat: Feni-2
Seat page →Parliamentary committees(1)
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