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Nitai Roy Chowdhury

Nitai Roy Chowdhury

নিতাই রায় চৌধুরী

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)Magura-2Magura district
Current member, 13th ParliamentMinister, Ministry of Cultural AffairsElected twice

Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet

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Nitai Roy Chowdhury (BNP) is the MP for Magura-2 and Minister in the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. This page gives his profile and contact details.

He was born on 7 January 1949 in Hatbaria, Mohammadpur, Magura. By profession he is a lawyer. He studied at University of Dhaka.

He has been elected an MP twice in all, this term included. In the 2026 election he was elected with 147,896 votes, 30,878 more than the nearest rival (according to The Business Standard's count). He is a member of 1 committee of Parliament.

This introduction is put together from the information on this page: Parliament's list of members, the published election result and the Wikipedia facts marked with an asterisk in the list below. It contains no assessment of our own.

Nitai Roy Chowdhury’s biography is available in Bangla. Read the biography in Bangla

Born7 January 1949 (aged 77)
BirthplaceHatbaria, Mohammadpur, Magura
GenderMale
EducationUniversity of Dhaka*
ProfessionLawyer
Current term17 February 2026 to 16 February 2031
Elected an MPTwice

Facts marked * are taken from the member’s Wikipedia article and have not been checked against the records of Parliament or the Election Commission. If you see a mistake, let us know.

Constituency

Magura-2

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, 2026Magura-2Current termBNP

According 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

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13th Parliament, 2026Candidates' total: 284,084 votes
  1. Nitai Roy ChowdhuryBNPWinner147,89652.1%
  2. Md Mushtarshed BillahJamaat-e-Islami117,01841.2%
  3. Mostofa KamalIslami Andolan16,2235.7%
  4. Moshiyar RahmanJatiya Party (Ershad)2,9471.0%
Source: The Business Standard. Not checked against the Election Commission's gazette. Wikipedia also gives the same votes for the winner.Original page

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Seat: Magura-2

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Area

(a) Mohammadpur upazila, (b) Shalikha upazila and (c) the following unions of Magura Sadar upazila: (1) Satrujitpur, (2) Gopalgram, (3) Kuchiamora, (4) Birail Palita unions

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