List of ethnic minority officials in Bangladesh

This list comprises persons who belong to an ethnic minority group who have been elected as members of the Jatiya Sangsad and other positions within the Government of Bangladesh.

Members of Parliament

	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Ethnicity
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti	Manabendra Narayan Larma	Chittagong Hill Tracts-1	1973^[1]	1976	Chakma
JSD	Upendra Lal Chakma	Chittagong Hill Tracts-1	1979	1982	Chakma
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti	Chaithoai Roaza	Chittagong Hill Tracts-2	1973	1976	Marma
BNP	Raja Aung Shwe Prue Chowdhury	Chittagong Hill Tracts-2	1979	1982	Marma
BNP	Raja Aung Shwe Prue Chowdhury	Bandarban	1986	1991	Marma
JP(E)	Binoy Kumar Dewan	Rangamati	1986	1991	Chakma
AL	Dipankar Talukdar		1991	February 1996	Jumma
			June 1996	2001
			2008	2014
			2018	present
BNP	Parijat Kusum Chakma		February 1996	June 1996	Chakma
BNP	Moni Swapan Dewan		2001	2008	Chakma
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti	Ushatan Talukder		2014	2018	Chakma
AL	Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing	Bandarban	1991	February 1996	Marma
AL	Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing		June 1996	present	Marma
BNP	Saching Prue Jerry		February 1996	June 1996	Marma
AL	Kalparanjan Chakma	Khagrachhari	1991	February 1996	Chakma
AL	Kalparanjan Chakma		June 1996	2001	Chakma
AL	Jotindra Lal Tripura		2008	2014	Tripuri
AL	Kujendra Lal Tripura		2014	present	Tripuri
BNP	Ma Mya Ching	Reserved Women's Seat-30	1991	June 1996	Marma
BNP	Aye Thein Rakhaine	Reserved Women's Seat-30	June 1996	2001	Marma
AL	Ethinab Rakhain	Reserved Women's Seat-7	2008	2014	Marma
AL	Basanti Chakma	Reserved Women's Seat-9	2018	present	Chakma
AL	Promode Mankin	Mymensingh-1	1991	1996	Garo
AL	Promode Mankin		2001	11 May 2016	Garo
AL	Jewel Areng		11 May 2016	present	Garo

Supreme Court

Portrait	Name	Office	Year elected	Year left	Ethnicity
	Surendra Kumar Sinha	Chief Justice of Bangladesh	17 January 2015	11 November 2017	Bishnupriya Manipuri
	Bhabani Prasad Singha	Justice of the High Court Division	12 December 2010	July 2020	Bishnupriya Manipuri

Government ministries

Name	Office	Year elected	Year left	Ethnicity
Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing	Minister of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs	7 January 2019	Present	Marma
	Chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board	1996	2002
	State Minister of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs	2014	2018
Dipankar Talukdar	State Minister of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs	2009	2014	Jumma
Naba Bikram Kishore Tripura	Chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board	December 2013	April 2021	Tripuri
Naba Bikram Kishore Tripura	Secretary of the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs	16 June 2011	18 February 2018	Tripuri
Kujendra Lal Tripura	Chairman of the Task Force on Rehabilitation of India-returnee Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons	12 December 2017	Present	Tripuri
Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma	Chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council	Present	Present	Marma
Abdur Rahman Kashgari	Khatib of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque (Ministry of Religious Affairs)	1963	March 1971	Uyghur
Amimul Ehsan Barkati		March 1971	27 October 1974	Bihari
Promode Mankin	State Minister of Cultural Affairs	31 July 2009	14 September 2012	Garo
Dilip Barua	Minister of Industries	5 January 2009	21 November 2013	Barua
Benita Roy	Land Administration and Land Reforms	December 1975	January 1976	Chakma
Benita Roy	Minister of Relief and Rehabilitation	February 1976	June 1978	Chakma

References

^ Kader, Rozina (2012). "Larma, Manabendra Narayan". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 16 November 2024.

[1] Kader, Rozina (2012). "Larma, Manabendra Narayan". In Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 16 November 2024.

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