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Zakaria Taher

Zakaria Taher

জাকারিয়া তাহের

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)Cumilla-8Cumilla district
Current member, 13th ParliamentMinister, Ministry of Housing and Public WorksElected twice

Government posts last checked: 24 October 2026, Cabinet

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Zakaria Taher (BNP) is the MP for Cumilla-8 and Minister in the Ministry of Housing and Public Works. This page gives his profile and contact details.

He was born on 15 December 1965 in Barura, Cumilla. By profession he is a businessman.

He has been elected an MP twice in all, this term included. Earlier term: 8th Parliament (Comilla-7). In the 2026 election he was elected with 169,178 votes, 124,087 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 and the published election result. It contains no assessment of our own.

Zakaria Taher’s biography is available in Bangla. Read the biography in Bangla

Born15 December 1965 (aged 60)
BirthplaceBarura, Cumilla
GenderMale
ProfessionBusiness
Current term17 February 2026 to 16 February 2031
Elected an MPTwice

Constituency

Cumilla-8

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, 2026Cumilla-8Current termBNP
8th Parliament, 2001Comilla-7BNP

According to the Parliament Secretariat, he has been elected an MP twice in all. 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: 220,369 votes
  1. Zakaria TaherBNPWinner169,17876.8%
  2. Md. Shafiqul Alam HelalJamaat-e-Islami45,09120.5%
  3. Mohammad Golam MorshedBSP3,2241.5%
  4. Md Golam SadekIslami Andolan2,2761.0%
  5. Abdul KaderIslami Oikya Jote2790.1%
  6. Md. Mofiz Uddin AhmedBRP1610.1%
  7. Md. Ali AshrafBasad1600.1%
Source: The Business Standard. Not checked against the Election Commission's gazette.Original page

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Seat: Cumilla-8

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Area

Barura upazila

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