Md. Elias Molla
মোঃ ইলিয়াস মোল্লা
Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
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Md. Elias Molla (Jamaat-e-Islami) is the MP for Faridpur-1. This page gives his profile, earlier terms, parliamentary committees and contact details.
Professor Dr Md. Elias Molla is a member of the 13th Parliament elected from Faridpur-1 (Madhukhali, Boalmari and Alfadanga). This is his first term in Parliament, as the nominee of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. He is an academic and a former chairman of the Department of Chemistry at Jahangirnagar University.
He was born in Kalpoha village, Kamaldia union, Madhukhali upazila, Faridpur district. His father is Abdul Majid Molla and his mother Saleha Begum. He is the second of five siblings. He won talent-pool scholarships in Class 5 and Class 8, and passed his SSC and HSC in the first division with letter marks.
From the Department of Chemistry at Jahangirnagar University he came first in the first class in his bachelor's (Hons) examination and obtained a first class in his MSc. In 1981 he joined the same university as a lecturer. Awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship in 1984, he obtained his PhD from the University of Sussex, England, in 1987, and he received the Hariprasanna Gold Medal from the University of Dhaka. In 1992 he carried out postdoctoral research in England on a Royal Society of Chemistry fellowship; in 1993 he was promoted to professor; and from 1995 to 1997 he carried out postdoctoral research for a second time, at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, on an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. From 2012 to 2015 he was chairman of the Department of Chemistry at Jahangirnagar University. About 100 of his research papers have been published in national and international journals, and many students have obtained doctorates under his supervision.
He has been associated with Islami Chhatra Shibir since its founding in 1977 and was the second president of its Jahangirnagar University branch. He is currently a member of the Shura and of the working committee of Jamaat-e-Islami's Dhaka district branch.
In the 13th parliamentary election held on 12 February 2026, he was elected MP for Faridpur-1 with 154,145 votes under the scales 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 Jamaat-e-IslamiBJEIAccording 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 →- Md. Elias MollaJamaat-e-IslamiWinner154,14548.3%
- Khandaker Nasirul Islam
BNP126,47639.6% - Md Abul Bashar KhanIndependent34,38710.8%
- Md Golam Kabir MiaIndependent2,1590.7%
- Mrinmoy Kanti DasBMJP7860.2%
- Sultan Ahmed KhanJatiya Party (Ershad)5060.2%
- Md Hasibur RahmanIndependent4550.1%
- Sheikh Abdur Rahman JikoIndependent840.0%
Parliament Secretariat notifications
Seat: Faridpur-1
Seat page →(a) Madhukhali, (b) Boalmari and (c) Alfadanga upazilas
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