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Tangail-8
Tangail-8 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament). Boundaries The constituency encompasses Basail Upazila, Basail and Sakhipur Upazila, Sakhipur upazilas. History The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Shawkat Momen Shahjahan died in January 2014, barely two weeks after the general election. Anupam Shahjahan Joy, his son, was elected in a by-election conducted in March and April. He defeated independent candidates Md. Malek Mian, Abu Sayed Azad, and Liakat Ali, and Jatiya Party (Ershad) candidate Sadek Siddiqui. Shawkat Momen Shahjahan was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 Bangladeshi general election, 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s Abdul Kader Siddique was expell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shawkat Momen Shahjahan
Shawkat Momen Shahjahan was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a Member of Parliament. Early life Shajahan was born in 1951. He studied at the Bangladesh Agriculture University in Mymensingh. He worked as a lecturer in Bangladesh Agriculture University after graduating. Later he married Shobnam Momtaz, and had a child, Anupam Shahjahan Joy, the current MP of Tangail-8. Career Shahjahan was elected to Parliament in 1986 Tangail-8 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. He won the by-poll in 1999 from Tangail-8 and was re-elected again in December 2008 General elections. He served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee for Agriculture Ministry. He was elected unopposed in the 10th parliamentary election on 5 January 2014. He has called on the government of Bangladesh to implement the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord () was a peace agreement signed between the Government of Bangladesh and the Parbatya Chatta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anupam Shahjahan Joy
Anupam Shahjahan Joy (born 10 April 1985) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Tangail-8 constituency. Early life Joy's father, Shawkat Momen Shahjahan, was an Awami League politician and a member of parliament. Career Joy was elected to parliament from Tangail-8 by-elections on 29 March 2014 as a candidate of the Awami League. The by-elections were called after the death of the incumbent member of parliament for Tangail-8 and Joy's father, Shaukat Momen Shahjahan, on 20 January 2014. The election Commission cancelled the candidature of Kader Siddiqui ahead of the election. He was the youngest elected member of parliament at that time. In September 2016, two teenage high schoolers were sentenced to two years imprisonment by a mobile court for writing against Joy on Facebook. In October 2016, Bangladesh High Court nullified the sentenced and ordered an inquiry into the allegations that the boys were tortured by Joy, the of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Kader Siddiqui
Abdul Kader Siddique is a Bangladeshi politician. He served as a Mukti Bahini commander, and organizer of the Bangladesh War of Independence. He fought with an estimated 17,000-strong guerrilla force in the Tangail region against the Pakistan Army.Brian May, "Indian Army Arrests 'Tiger of Tangail' After Dacca Bayoneting", ''The Times'', 21 December 1971, pg. 4. The army was called '' Kaderia Bahini'' (Kader's Army). At the end of the war in 1971, Siddique's forces entered Dhaka along with the Indian forces, signaling the end of the war. He was awarded Bir Uttom by the Government of Bangladesh. Since 1999, he has been serving as the leader of his newly formed party, the Krishak Sramik Janata League. Career Bangladesh Liberation War During the Bangladesh war of independence, he formed the Kaderia Bahini to fight against the Pakistan military. The Kaderia Bahini, as it is said, had approximately 17 thousand personnel. He was loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. After independence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joaherul Islam
Joaherul Islam (born 12 February 1956) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Tangail-8 constituency from 2019 to 2024. Career Islam served as the general secretary of Tangail District unit of Awami League in 2017. He is a lawyer by profession. Islam was elected to the parliament on 30 December 2018 from Tangail-8 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. The Awami League choose to nominate Anupam Shahjahan Joy over Islam from Tangail-8 for the 2024 general election. After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina led Awami League government, Islam's house was vandalized then forcefully occupied by Mariam Mukaddas Miste, affiliate of the Students Against Discrimination Students Against Discrimination () is a platform of Student activism, student activists in Bangladesh formed in 2024 during the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement, nationwide student-led quota reform movement. The group was involved in the R .... Islam's daughter Jak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morshed Ali Khan Panni
Morshed Ali Khan Panni is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament from Tangail-8. Early life and family Morshed Ali Khan Panni was born into the Bengali Muslim family known as the Zamindars of Karatia. His father, Khurram Khan Panni, was a civil servant and landowner. His ancestors were Pashtuns belonging to the Panni tribe, and had migrated from Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ... to Bengal in the 16th century where they became culturally assimilated. Panni's older brother is Wajid Ali Khan Panni (Bunting), the motawalli or supervisor of the zamindari estate. The two brothers had a dispute after Bunting Panni rented Rokeya Manzil of the estate to Lighthouse School, a school established by Islami Chhatra Shibir i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazlur Rahman Faruque
Fazlur Rahman Faruque (12 October 1944 – 19 October 2024) was an Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Tangail-8 constituency during 1973–1975. He received the Ekushey Padak in 2021 for his contribution to the Bangladesh Liberation War. From 2017 to until death, he has served as president of the Tangail District unit of the Awami League. He was the district council administrator of Tangail District. Early life Faruque was born on 12 October 1944 in Kahela village, Mirzapur Upazila, Tangail, East Bengal, British Raj. Career Faruque was a member of the Chhatra League in the 1960s. Faruque served in the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh. He was elected to the parliament in 1973 from Tangail-8 as an Awami League candidate. Faruque contested the 1991 parliamentary election from Tangail-7 as a candidate of the Awami League. He received 41,392 and came second to Kh. Badar Uddin of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party who received 62,882 vote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangail-7
Tangail-7 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh by Khan Ahmed Shuvo. Since 2001 it was represented by Md. Akabbar Hossain of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Mirzapur Upazila Mirzapur () is an upazila of Tangail District in the division of Dhaka Division, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Geography Mirzapur is located at . It has 93,880 households and a total area of 373.88 km2. Demographics According to the 2011 Bangladesh .... History The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Ekabbar Hossain was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s References External links * Parliamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamalpur-1
Jamalpur-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Nur Mohammad of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Baksiganj and Dewanganj upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1978, when the former Mymensingh District was split into two districts: Jamalpur and Mymensingh Mymensingh () is a metropolis, metropolitan city and capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh. Located on the bank of the Old Brahmaputra River, Brahmaputra River, about north of the national capital Dhaka, it is a major financial center .... Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s References External links * Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh Jamalpur District Long stubs with short prose {{Bangladesh-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 7 January 2024 in accordance with the Constitution of Bangladesh, constitutional requirement, stating that elections must take place within the 90-day period before the expiration of the current term of the Jatiya Sangsad on 29 January 2024. The Awami League, led by incumbent Sheikh Hasina, won the election for the fourth consecutive time with less than 40% of the eligible voters voting according to an Election Commission, which was run by the ruling political party. The party won 224 seats while independent candidates, most of whom were Awami League members propped up as dummy candidates to give a semblance of competition, won 62 seats. In the lead-up to the election, the incumbent government led by Sheikh Hasina cracked down on opposition parties and silenced critics of the government. Hasina's prime ministership has been described as authoritarian since being re-elected in 2008, and in 2011 removed the requirement that a temporary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humayun Khan Panni
Humayun Khan Panni (died 11 May 2006) was a Bangladeshi politician and deputy speaker of parliament from 1991 to 1996. Early life and family Humayun Khan Panni was born in the early 1920s, to the Bengali Muslim family known as the Zamindars of Karatia. His ancestors were Pashtuns belonging to the Panni tribe, and had migrated from Afghanistan to Bengal in the 16th century where they became culturally assimilated. Career During the 1991 Bangladeshi general election, Panni won the Tangail-8 seat as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate. He served for a second term after the February 1996 Bangladeshi general election. Panni's wife was murdered on 19 May 2003 in their residence in Dhanmondi. Death Panni died on 11 May 2006 at the Apollo Hospital Dhaka Evercare Hospital Dhaka is a multidisciplinary super-specialty tertiary-care hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh and part of Evercare Group. It was previously called Apollo Hospital Dhaka. History The hospital is located in Bash ... [...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 another landslide victory for the Awami League-led Grand Alliance (Bangladesh), Grand Alliance led by Sheikh Hasina. The elections were marred by 2018 Bangladesh election violence, violence. According to political scientist Ali Riaz the elections were not free and fair. BBC News, among others, observed some apparent vote rigging by the Awami League, with some referring to it as the 'midnight election' due to ballot boxes allegedly being filled the night before election day. 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. Background The 2014 Bangladeshi ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
