Mohammad Zahirul Islam

মোহাম্মদ জহিরুল ইসলাম

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Chattogram-16 Chattogram district

Current member, 13th Parliament

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Mohammad Zahirul Islam is a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami member of the 13th Parliament elected from Chattogram-16.

Principal Mohammad Zahirul Islam is the member of parliament for Chattogram-16 (Banshkhali) in the 13th Parliament. He has entered Parliament for the first time, for Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, and took the oath as a member of parliament on 17 February 2026.

Zahirul Islam was born on 12 March 1976 in Shekherkhil union, Banshkhali upazila, Chattogram district. He is the son of Maulana Md. Ishaq and Mosammat Johora Begum.

He obtained a bachelor's (honours) degree in law. He began his career in 1998 as a lecturer at Hamedia Rahima Fazil Madrasa in Banshkhali. In 2001 he was appointed principal of the same madrasa.

At the age of only 24 he was elected chairman of the Shekherkhil union parishad, and he held the post for two terms. In the upazila parishad election held on 23 March 2014 he was elected chairman of the Banshkhali upazila parishad. In 2018 he gave up the post of upazila chairman to take part in the parliamentary election.

In the election to the 13th Parliament held on 12 February 2026 he was elected member of parliament for Chattogram-16 as the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami candidate, winning 93,167 votes.

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Born12 March 1976 (aged 50)

BirthplaceShekherkhil union, Banshkhali, Chattogram

GenderMale

EducationBachelor's degree in Law (Honours)

ProfessionTeacher

FatherMaulana Md. Ishaq

MotherMosammat Zohra Begum

Current term17 February 2026 to 16 February 2031

Elected an MPOnce

Constituency

Chattogram-16

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

13th Parliament, 2026Chattogram-16Current term

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-IslamiBJEI

According 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.