Khondoker Abu Ashfaque
Bangladeshi politician
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Khondoker Abu Ashfaque is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member-elect representing the Dhaka-1 (Dohar–Nawabganj) constituency.[1]
Khondoker Abu Ashfaque | |
|---|---|
খোন্দকার আবু আশফাক | |
Ashfaque in 2026 | |
| Member of Parliament | |
| Assumed office 17 February 2026 | |
| Preceded by | Salman F Rahman |
| Constituency | Dhaka-1 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 August 1966 |
| Party | Bangladesh Nationalist Party |
Background
Ashfaq was born to Abdul Alim Khandaker and Noorjahan Begum.[2]
Career
In December 2018, the High Court barred Ashfaq to participate in the 2018 Bangladeshi general election on the ground of a petition which claimed he had been holding the office of Nawabganj Upazila Parishad chairman and hence he was ineligible for contesting the polls.[3][4][5]
Ashfaq is a member of the executive committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). He became the president of the Dhaka district unit of BNP in November 2022.[6]
At the aftermath of the fall of the Hasina government in August 2024, Ashfaq was accused of leading vandalism at the BAIRA building in Dhaka.[7]
Ashfaq won the 2026 Bangladeshi general election contesting at the Dhaka-1 constituency securing 173,781 votes while his nearest opponent Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Mohammad Nazrul Islam received 112,622 votes.[1][8]
Personal life
Ashfaq has six brothers & one sister– Professor Dr Khondaker Abul Bashar, Abul Hossain Khandker, a former joint district judge of Feni, and Abul Kalam Khandaker, the General Secretary of Nawabganj Upazila BNP.[9] In a 2012 case, they were all accused of occupying Brajo Niketan, a former Hindu zamindar Brajan Roy's palace at Nawabganj Upazila, Dhaka.[10][11]
