
Md Manirul Haque Chowdhury
মোঃ মনিরুল হক চৌধুরী
Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
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Md Manirul Haque Chowdhury is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party member of the 13th Parliament elected from Cumilla-6.
Md Manirul Haque Chowdhury is the member of parliament for Cumilla-6 (Cumilla Adarsha Sadar, Cumilla City Corporation and the Cumilla Cantonment area) in the 13th Parliament. Elected from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), this veteran politician has come to Parliament for the fourth time. In Parliament he is chair of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs. He is a freedom fighter and an organiser of the Liberation War.
Manirul Haque Chowdhury was born in Noygram, Cumilla Sadar Dakshin upazila, Cumilla district. He is the son of Md. Noab Haider Chowdhury and Joynaber Nesa.
He has been active in politics since his student days. From 1974 to 1975 he was president of the Bangladesh Chhatra League. In the 3rd parliamentary election in 1988 he was elected a member of parliament for the first time, from the Cumilla-9 seat on a Jatiya Party nomination, and he was re-elected from the same seat in the 5th parliamentary election in 1991. He later joined BNP, and in the 8th parliamentary election in 2001 he became a member of parliament for the third time, from Cumilla-9 on a BNP nomination. He has also served as an adviser to the BNP chairperson.
In the 13th parliamentary election held on 12 February 2026, standing in Cumilla-6 for the first time, he was elected a member of parliament, winning 201,706 votes with the sheaf of paddy symbol. He is married to Azizunnesa, and the couple have four children.
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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
According to the Parliament Secretariat, he has been elected an MP 4 times in all; details of 1 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 →- Md Manirul Haque Chowdhury
BNPWinner201,70660.8% - Kazi Deen Mohammad
Jamaat-e-Islami119,85136.1%
- Md. Masum Bilya MiajiIslami Front4,6481.4%
- Mohammad Harunur Rashid
Islami Andolan2,4760.7% - Md. YeasinBML1,5970.5%
- Kamrunnahar ShathiBasad5150.2%
- Obaidul Kabir MohanJSD4530.1%
- Mubarak Hossain
Gono Odhikar Parishad2150.1%
- Md. Amir Hossain FarayeziBSM1530.0%
Parliament Secretariat notifications(1)
Seat: Cumilla-6
Seat page →The Election Commission’s description of this seat’s area is available in Bangla. Read it in Bangla
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