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Kurigram-4
Kurigram-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Zakir Hossain of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Chilmari, Char Rajibpur and Raomari upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from the Rangpur-17 constituency when the former Rangpur District was split into five districts: Nilphamari, Lalmonirhat, Rangpur, Kurigram, and Gaibandha. Ahead of the 2018 general election, the Election Commission altered the boundaries of the constituency by removing one union parishad (Saheber Alga) of Ulipur Upazila, and adding the remainder of Chilmari Upazila Chilmari ( bn, চিলমারী) is an upazila of Kurigram District in the Division of Rangpur Division, Rangpur, Bangladesh. History Chilmari was river port during the Pakistani and British Rule. During the war of Independence of Bangladesh ... to the two union parishads already included: Ashtamir Char and Nayerhat. Membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Bari Sarkar
Abdul Bari Sarkar is a politician from Kurigram District of Bangladesh and a former member of parliament for the Kurigram-4 constituency. Career Sarkar is the president of Chilmari Upazila BNP. He was elected to parliament from Kurigram-4 Kurigram-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Zakir Hossain of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Chilmari, Char Rajibpur and Raomari upazilas. Hist ... as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 15 February 1996 Bangladeshi general election. He was defeated in the 7th Jatiya Sangsad elections on 12 June 1996 as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party from Kurigram-4 constituency. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Kurigram District Politicians from Rangpur Division Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 6th Jatiya Sangsad members {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rokanuddaula Mandal
Rokanuddaula Mandal is a politician of Kurigram District of Bangladesh and a former member of parliament for the Kurigram-4 constituency. Career Mandal is a politician of Jatiya Party. He is the cousin of former President Hussein Muhammad Ershad. When Najimuddaula, an MP from Kurigram-4 Kurigram-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Zakir Hossain of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Chilmari, Char Rajibpur and Raomari upazilas. Hist ... constituency, died in 1988, he was elected as a member of parliament as a candidate of Jatiya Party in the by-elections. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Kurigram District Politicians from Rangpur Division Jatiya Party politicians 4th Jatiya Sangsad members {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golam Habib Dulal
Golam Habib Dulal is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and the former Member of Parliament of Kurigram-4 Kurigram-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Zakir Hossain of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Chilmari, Char Rajibpur and Raomari upazilas. Hist .... Career Dulal was elected to parliament from Kurigram-4 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 2001. References Jatiya Party politicians Living people 8th Jatiya Sangsad members People from Kurigram District Politicians from Rangpur Division Year of birth missing (living people) {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zakir Hossain (politician)
Md Zakir Hossain is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent State Minister of Primary and Mass Education and Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Kurigram-4 constituency. Career Hossain was elected to the parliament on 30 December 2018 from Kurigram-4 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. He was appointed the State Minister of Primary and Mass Education in the Fourth Sheikh Hasina Cabinet The Fourth Hasina cabinet is the current cabinet of Bangladesh headed by Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina which was formed after the 2018 general election which was held on 30 December 2018. The results of the election were announced o .... References Living people Awami League politicians 11th Jatiya Sangsad members State Ministers of Primary and Mass Education (Bangladesh) Place of birth missing (living people) 1966 births {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilmari Upazila
Chilmari ( bn, চিলমারী) is an upazila of Kurigram District in the Division of Rangpur, Bangladesh. History Chilmari was river port during the Pakistani and British Rule. During the war of Independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the Chilmari Riverborne Amphibious Landing Assault was conducted by then BDF Sector 11, Mankarchar Sub-Sector, led by Squadron Leader M. Hamidullah Khan with participation of the 3rd East Bengal Regiment. Geography Chilmari is located at . It has 30,966 households and total area 224.96 km2. Situated in the northern part of Bangladesh, it is located near the Indo-Bangladesh frontier. Chilmari Upazila is intersected by the mighty Brahmaputra River. The upazila is bounded by Ulipur Upazila on the north, Char Rajibpur Upazila and Sundarganj Upazila of Gaibandha District on the south, Raomari Upazila and Char Rajibpur Upazila on the east, Sundarganj and Ulipur upazilas on the west. Demographics According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Najimuddaula
Najimuddaula is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and a former member of parliament for Kurigram-4 Kurigram-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Zakir Hossain of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Chilmari, Char Rajibpur and Raomari upazilas. Hist .... Career Najimuddaula was elected to parliament from Kurigram-4 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986 and 1988. References Jatiya Party politicians 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members 4th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of death unknown Year of birth missing {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub ... [...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-1
Gaibandha-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. Since 6 August 2024 The constituency is vacant. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Sundarganj 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, and Gaibandha. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Golam Mostafa Ahmed Golam Mostafa Ahmed (died 19 December 2017) was a Bangladeshi politician and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Gaibandha-1. Career Ahmed was elected to Parliament from Gaibandha-1 in March 2017 in a by-election as a Bangladesh Awami Leag ... died in December 2017. Shamim Haider Patwary of the Jatiya Party (Ershad) was elected in a March 2018 by-election. Manjurul Islam Liton was murdered in December 2016. Golam Mostafa Ahmed of the Awami League was elected in a March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 3 March 1988. They were boycotted by several major parties, including the Bangladesh Awami League, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the Communist Party of Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League, the National Awami Party (Muzaffar) and the Workers Party of Bangladesh. The result was a victory for the Jatiya Party, which won 251 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 52.5%. Background In 1982 a coup d'état led by Army Chief Hussain Muhammad Ershad overthrew democratically elected President Abdus Sattar. Parliament was dissolved and all political parties were banned. Ershad assumed the presidency in December 1983, promising to hold presidential elections in May 1984 and to restore parliamentary government the following year. However, neither elections were held until 1986. Amid increasing opposition from the general public, Ershad aimed to legitimise his regime by holding a referendum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jatiya Party (Ershad)
The Jatiya Party ( bn, জাতীয় পার্টি, translit=Jatiyo Party, lit=National Party) is a conservative, nationalist political party in Bangladesh and is currently the main opposition in the Jatiya Sangsad, against the Awami League. The current chairman of the party is Ghulam Muhammad Quader. On 3 January 2019, the party announced its decision to join the Bangladesh Awami League-led Grand Alliance after having been in opposition for the previous parliamentary term. However, the party backtracked the next day and announced that it intended to remain part of the opposition. Currently, it holds Rangpur out of Bangladesh's 12 city corporations. History The party was established by a retired army officer, Hussain Mohammad Ershad on 1 January 1986. He was the Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh Army. He had seized power through a coup d'état on 24 March 1982. He ruled the country as chief martial law administrator till December 1983. Politics was banned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jatiya Sangsad
The Jatiya Sangsad ( bn, জাতীয় সংসদ, lit=National Parliament, translit=Jatiyô Sôngsôd), often referred to simply as the ''Sangsad'' or JS and also known as the House of the Nation, is the supreme legislative body of Bangladesh. The current parliament of Bangladesh contains 350 seats, including 50 seats reserved exclusively for women. Elected occupants are called Member of Parliament, or MP. The 11th National Parliamentary Election was held on 30 December 2018. Elections to the body are held every five years, unless a parliament is dissolved earlier by the President of Bangladesh. The leader of the party (or alliance of parties) holding the majority of seats becomes the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and so the head of the government. The President of Bangladesh, the ceremonial head of state, is chosen by Parliament. Since the December 2008 national election, the current majority party is the Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina. Etymology The Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 27 February 1991. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) emerged as the largest party in parliament, winning 140 of the 300 directly-elected seats. The BNP formed a government with the support of the Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami, and on 20 March Khaleda Zia was sworn in for her first term as Prime Minister. The elections were described to be free and fair by many international observers, and it played a major role in solidifying Bangladeshi democracy in aftermath of the anti-government protests in late 1980s. Voter turnout was 55.4%. Background In 1990 a popular mass uprising led by future Prime Ministers Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina deposed the former Army Chief Hussain Muhammad Ershad from the Presidency in December. Ershad had assumed the Presidency in 1983 following a coup d'état in 1982. The previous parliamentary elections had been held in 1988 and saw Ershad's Jatiya Party win 251 of the 300 seats. However, the ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
