Joarder was nominated by Awami League to contest the 1991 parliamentary election from Chuadanga-1. He lost the election with 53,535 votes to
Miah Mohammed Monsur Ali of
Bangladesh Nationalist Party who received 55,387. He received 184,793 votes while his nearest rival of Bangladesh Nationalist Party received 136,889 votes. On 24 March 2012 he received government approval for his private university,
First Capital University, in
Chuadanga District. Joarder was reelected unopposed in
2014 Bangladeshi general election. The opposition leader and chairperson of Bangladesh Nationalist Party,
Khaleda Zia, was placed under house arrest before the election and her party subsequently boycotted it. He is a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications. On 24 January 2014 he was appointed a whip the 10th Parliament. In August 2024, the
Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh decided to investigate the allegations of corruption brought against Joarder. ==References==