Lutfur Rahman
লুৎফুর রহমান
Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
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Lutfur Rahman is a member of the 13th Parliament elected from Cox's Bazar-3 and Secretary for Fishermen's Affairs of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
Lutfur Rahman, known as Lutfur Rahman Kajal, is the member of parliament for Cox's Bazar-3 (Cox's Bazar Sadar, Eidgaon and Ramu upazilas) in the 13th Parliament. This leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been elected member of parliament for the second time. He is fishermen's affairs secretary of the BNP national executive committee. In Parliament he is a member of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Road Transport and Bridges.
Lutfur Rahman Kajal was born on 18 November 1966 in Gomatali union, Cox's Bazar district. His father, the late Alhaj Mostafizur Rahman, was an industrialist and social worker. His mother, Saleha Khanam, is a teacher and a former member of parliament.
Alongside politics he is an industrial entrepreneur and chairman of Niribili Group.
He entered politics through the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal in 1980. He later held posts at various levels of the Jubo Dal and the BNP. In 2001 he was first elected member of parliament for Cox's Bazar-3.
In the election to the 13th Parliament held on 12 February 2026 he was again elected member of parliament for Cox's Bazar-3 as the BNP candidate, winning 182,096 votes with the sheaf of paddy symbol. His wife is Shirin Rahman, and they have two sons.
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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 twice in all; details of the earlier term were not found in Parliament's database. 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 →- Lutfur RahmanBNPWinner182,09651.9%
- Shahidul Alam (Bahadur)
Jamaat-e-Islami161,82746.1% - Amirul Islam
Islami Andolan5,1491.5% - Md. Ilias MiaIndependent9470.3%
- Jagadish BaruaBangladesh Labour Party6020.2%
- Nurul AbsharAmjanatar Dol3670.1%
Parliament Secretariat notifications
Seat: Cox's Bazar-3
Seat page →(a) Cox's Bazar Sadar upazila, (b) Eidgaon upazila and (c) Ramu upazila
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