Md. Abdus Salam
মোঃ আব্দুস সালাম
Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
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Md. Abdus Salam is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party member of the 13th Parliament elected from Thakurgaon-2. This page gives his profile and contact details.
Md. Abdus Salam (Dr Abdus Salam) is the member of parliament for Thakurgaon-2 (Baliadangi, Haripur, and the Dharmagarh and Kashipur unions of Ranishankail upazila) in the 13th Parliament. He was elected as the candidate nominated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Born on 13 July 1955, Abdus Salam is a native of Baliadangi in Thakurgaon district. His father is Rahim Uddin Ahammed and his mother Saleha Khatun.
A physician by profession, Abdus Salam is a former secretary general of the Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB), an organisation of doctors. On 4 December 2025, when the BNP announced its second round of candidates, it nominated him for Thakurgaon-2. In the election held on 12 February 2026 he was elected MP, winning 121,017 votes with the sheaf of paddy symbol. According to a report in Ittefaq, with this win a BNP candidate carried the seat after 37 years. After his victory he pledged to work shoulder to shoulder with everyone, regardless of party or opinion.
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Sources: jugantor.com, ittefaq.com.bd, Wikipedia (Bangla), tbsnews.net. If you see a mistake, let us know.
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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 →- Md. Abdus SalamBNPWinner121,01749.9%
- Md Abdul Hakim
Jamaat-e-Islami115,70747.7% - Nurunnahar BegumJatiya Party (Ershad)2,8761.2%
- Md Faruk Hossain
Gono Odhikar Parishad1,8430.8% - Md Nahid RanaAB Party4510.2%
- Md Rezaul Karim
Islami Andolan4370.2% - Sahabuddin AhnedCPB3800.2%
Parliament Secretariat notifications
Seat: Thakurgaon-2
Seat page →(a) Baliadangi upazila, (b) Haripur upazila and (c) the following unions of Ranishankail upazila: (1) Dharmagarh and (2) Kashipur
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