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Ali Asgar Lobi is focused on mitigating severe waterlogging in the Dumuria and Phultala upazilas of his constituency.
EC affidavit wealth and income figures not located in any publicly accessible source; left null per schema rules (EC-only). Criminal cases: Lobi was convicted in 2007 (8-year tax evasion sentence + 13-year graft sentence) but was acquitted in at least one ACC case (Pacific Chemicals plot). His BNP nomination and election confirm no disqualifying pending cases as of Feb 2026; criminal_cases set to empty as no active EC-disclosed cases found. Vote totals verified: 147,658 (Lobi) + 144,956 (Parwar) + 1,319 (Shamim Ara Parvin, Jatiya Party) + 1,790 (Chittaranjan Goldar, CPB) = 295,723 total valid votes. Margin 2,702 votes (0.91%) made this among the closest seats nationally. Registered electorate reported as 402,798. Lobi previously served from Khulna-2 (2001 by-election), not Khulna-5. [2026-06-08 audit correction] Winner votes 147,658 -> 148,854; total valid 295,723 -> 297,100; margin 0.91 -> 0.88 (Wikipedia/BSS Khulna-5).
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