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Gaibandha-4
Gaibandha-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 The constituency is vacant. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Gobindaganj Upazila. History The constituency was created in 1984 from a Rangpur constituency when the former Rangpur District was split into five districts: Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram Kurigram District ( bn, কুড়িগ্রাম) is a district of Bangladesh in the Rangpur Division. The district is located in northern Bangladesh along the country's border with India. Under Indian rule, the area was organized as a mahakum ..., and Gaibandha. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Abdul Mottaleb Akanda died in March 2006. Shamim Kaisar Lincoln of the BNP was elected in a May 2006 by-election. Elections in the 1990s References Ext ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Mannan Mandal
Abdul Mannan Mandal (-7 June 2018) was a politician of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was elected a member of parliament for Gaibandha-4 in February 1996 Bangladeshi general election, February 1996. Early life Mandal was born in 1953 in Gaibandha District. Career Mandal started his political career in 1974 through the Chhatra League. After that, he joined Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal. He was the joint secretary of BNP's Gobindaganj Thana in 1988 and the president of Gobindaganj Upazila BNP since 1992–2018. He was elected to parliament for Gaibandha-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in the February 1996 Bangladeshi general election, 15 February 1996 Bangladeshi general election. He was defeated in the 7th Jatiya Sangsad elections on 12 June 1996 as a candidate of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from Gaibandha-4 constituency. He was the principal of Hakimpur Degree College in Dinajpur. He was the elected chairman of the Shakhahar Union for five cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monowar Hossain Chowdhury
Monowar Hossain Chowdhury is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent member of parliament for Gaibandha-4 Gaibandha-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 The constituency is vacant. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Gobindaganj Upazila. History The constituency was .... Career Chowdhury participated at the 2008 and 2014 elections under the symbol 'nouka' of the current ruling party. He was elected to represent Gaibandha-4 in 2008 but failed in 2014. He was chief Engineer of LGED. He was elected to parliament from Gaibandha-4 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate on 30 December 2018. References Awami League politicians Living people 11th Jatiya Sangsad members 9th Jatiya Sangsad members 1948 births {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shamim Kaisar Lincoln
Shamim Kaisar Lincoln is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Gaibandha-4. Career Lincoln was elected to parliament from Gaibandha-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in May 2006 by-election following the death of incumbent Abdul Mottaleb Akanda. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people 8th Jatiya Sangsad members People from Gaibandha District Politicians from Rangpur Division 1980 births Dhaka College alumni {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutfar Rahman Chowdhury
Lutfar Rahman Chowdhury is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and a former member of parliament for Gaibandha-4 Gaibandha-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 The constituency is vacant. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Gobindaganj Upazila. History The constituency was .... Career Chowdhury was elected to parliament from Gaibandha-4 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986, 1991, and 1996. References Jatiya Party politicians Living people 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members 5th Jatiya Sangsad members 6th Jatiya Sangsad members 7th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ataur Rahman (Gaibandha Politician)
Ataur Rahman is a politician of Gaibandha district of Bangladesh and a former member of parliament for the Gaibandha-4 constituency in 1988. Career Rahman was elected to parliament from Gaibandha-4 as an independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independe ... candidate in 1988. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Gaibandha District Politicians from Rangpur Division 4th Jatiya Sangsad members {{Rangpur-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections are scheduled to be held in Bangladesh in January 2024. Background The current Sangsad ( 11th) is scheduled to expire on 29 January 2024, as the first session of this parliament sat on 30 January 2019 and the tenure of a parliament lasts five years. The Awami League won the 2018 general elections and formed the government. Incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hinted she does not intend to lead her party, the Awami League, into another election. Electoral system The 350 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consist of 300 directly elected seats using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and an additional 50 seats reserved for women. The reserved seats are elected proportionally by the elected members. Each parliament sits for a five-year term. Parties and alliances Candidates Results Constituency-wise References {{Bangladeshi elections General Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Mottaleb Akanda
Abdul Mottaleb Akanda was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Gaibandha-4 Gaibandha-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 The constituency is vacant. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Gobindaganj Upazila. History The constituency was .... Career Mottaleb Akanda was renowned for his contributions to the education and welfare in Gobindaganj in Gaibandha District. Later, Akanda was elected to parliament from Gaibandha-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. He diverted flood relief to Mahimaganj Union, even though the union voted for Abdul Latif Prodhan, a Bangladesh Awami League politician, chairman of the Union Parishad. Death Akanda died on 11 March 2006 from a heart attack. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 2006 deaths 8th Jatiya Sangsad members {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaibandha District
Gaibandha ( bn, গাইবান্ধা জেলা, ''Gaibandha Jela'' or ''Gaibandha Zila'') is a district in Northern Bangladesh. It is a part of the Rangpur Division. Gaibandha subdivision was established in 1875. Gaibandha was previously known as Bhabanigonj. The name was changed from Bhabanigonj to Gaibandha in 1875. Gaibandha was established as a district on 15 February 1984. Gaibandha is the administrative headquarter and largest urban centre of this district. Etymology There are two opinions about the name of Gaibandha. The most famous opinion is: around five thousand years ago, capital of Matsya Kingdom of King Birat was in Gobindaganj area. Bengali: মৎস্য (Matsya) means fish and Bengali: দেশ (desh) means country. Fishes were abundant in his kingdom so the term Bengali: মৎস্য দেশ (Matsya Desh) was created. According to Mahabharata, king Birat had 60,000 cows which were frequently robbed by robbers. To protect his cattle from robbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 30 December 2018 to elect 300 directly-elected members of the Jatiya Sangsad. The result was a landslide victory for the Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina. According to political scientist Ali Riaz, the elections were not free and fair. The BBC News reported that they were marred by violence and allegations of vote rigging. Opposition leader Kamal Hossain rejected the results, calling it "farcical" and demanding fresh elections to be held under a neutral government. The Bangladesh Election Commission said it would investigate reported vote-rigging allegations from "across the country." The election saw the use of electronic voting machines for the first time. Electoral system The 350 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consist of 300 directly elected seats using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and an additional 50 seats reserved for women. The reserved seats are distributed based on the proportional vote share ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaibandha-5
Gaibandha-5 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2023 by Mahmud Hasan Ripon of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Fulchhari and Saghata upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from a Rangpur constituency when the former Rangpur District was split into five districts: Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram, and Gaibandha. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2020s Elections in the 2010s Fazle Rabbi Miah was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election The following elections occurred in the year 2014. * 2014 United Nations Security Council election 16 October 2014 Africa * 2014 Algerian presidential election 17 April 2014 * 2014 Botswana general election 24 October 2014 * 2014 Comorian presid ... after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. Elections in the 2000s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Nationalist Party
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and one of the major political parties of Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by former Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman after the Presidential election of 1978, with a view of uniting the people with a nationalist ideology. Since then, the BNP won the second, fifth, sixth and eighth national elections and two Presidential elections in 1978 and 1981. The party also holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country, with 116 seats in the seventh national election of June 1996. It has currently 7 MPs in parliament after 2018 general election. Although the party was initially founded on a nationalistic principle, many of its leaders want an Islamic government and its main supporters are I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 1996 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 12 June 1996. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Awami League, which won 146 of the 300 seats, beginning Sheikh Hasina's first-term as Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 74.96%, the highest to date. This election was the second to be held in 1996, following controversial elections held in February a few months earlier. Electoral system In 1996, the 330 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consisted of 300 directly elected seats using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and an additional 30 seats reserved for women. The reserved seats are distributed based on the election results. Each parliament sits for a five-year term. Background The June 1996 election marked the second general election to be held within only a four-month period. Previously in February, a general election had been held which was boycotted by all major opposition parties. The opposition were demanding the installation of a neutral caretak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
