Hossain is the president of the Meherpur District unit of Awami League. He was a lecturer at the
Dhaka City College. He received 80,146 votes while independent candidate Md. Yeearul Islam received 13,919 votes. Hossain was re-elected to parliament from Meherpur-1 as an Awami League candidate in 2018. He received 197,097 votes while his nearest rival, Masud Arun of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, received 14,192 votes. In June 2022, Hossain said there were nearly 400 thousand vacancies in various ministries of the government. Hossain proposed the "Bangladesh Public Service Commission Bill-2022" which would raise the members of the
Bangladesh Public Service Commission from 15 to 20. On 14 September 2024, Hossain was arrested by the
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in Dhaka's Eskaton area in a murder case filed for killing Rubel, a garment worker, during the
2024 non-cooperation movement. ==References==