Ishraque Hossain
Ishraque Hossain is a Bangladeshi politician and a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He is the son of former Mayor of Dhaka, Sadeq Hossain Khoka. He contested the 2020 Dhaka South City Corporation election as the BNP's mayoral candidate.
Early life and education
Ishraque Hossain was born on April 5, 1987, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, into a Muslim family. His father, Sadeq Hossain Khoka, was a freedom fighter, a former minister, and the last mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation. He completed his early education at Scholastica School and later pursued Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire in England, where he earned his undergraduate and master's degrees.Personal life
Ishraque is engaged to Barrister Nusrat Khan, the eldest daughter of politician Noor Muhammad Khan.Political career
On February 1, 2020, Hossain contested the mayoral election of the Dhaka South City Corporation as a candidate of the BNP. In the preliminary results, he received 236,000 votes, while the Awami League candidate Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh won with 424,000 votes. The BNP rejected the election results, alleging vote rigging and irregularities. On March 3, 2020, Hossain filed a lawsuit in the First Joint District Judge Court of Dhaka, seeking the annulment of the election results and declaring himself the rightful winner. The case named the then Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda, Returning Officer Md. Abdul Baten, and eight others, including Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, as defendants.On March 27, 2025, the Election Tribunal of Dhaka, led by the presiding judge Mohammad Nurul Islam, ruled that Ishrak Hossain was the rightful winner of the 2020 election and declared him the winner. This ruling sparked a new wave of political discussion in Bangladesh.