Md Showkatul Islam
মোঃ শওকতুল ইসলাম
Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet
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Md Showkatul Islam is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party member of the 13th Parliament elected from Maulvibazar-2. This page gives his profile and contact details.
Md Showkatul Islam is the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) member of parliament elected from Maulvibazar-2 (Kulaura). Known as Showkatul Islam Shaku, the politician is serving in Parliament for the first time, as a member of the 13th Parliament. In Parliament he is a member of the Standing Committee on the Ministry of Planning.
Showkatul Islam was born on 21 May 1959 in Kulaura, Moulvibazar district. He is the son of Md. Rais Ali and Maleka Khanam.
An expatriate politician, he was involved in Kulaura upazila BNP politics. In the 2001 parliamentary election he stood as a Jatiya Party candidate, and he later joined BNP.
In the 13th parliamentary election held on 12 February 2026, he was elected a member of parliament for the first time, winning 88,381 votes with the sheaf of paddy symbol. With his victory the seat returned to BNP for the first time since 1996, after nearly 30 years.
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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 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 Showkatul IslamBNPWinner88,38162.3%
- Md. Syed Ali
Jamaat-e-Islami53,45837.7%
Parliament Secretariat notifications(1)
Seat: Maulvibazar-2
Seat page →Parliamentary committees(1)
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