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Bangladesh Gano Azadi League (Bangladesh People's Freedom League) is a
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...
in
Bangladesh Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world and among the List of countries and dependencies by ...
, founded by Maulana Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish in 1976. The party president is Iskandar Mirza. The party is a member of the centre-left 11-Party Alliance. The party was briefly allied with the
Awami League The Awami League, officially known as Bangladesh Awami League, is a major List of political parties in Bangladesh, political party in Bangladesh. The oldest existing political party in the country, the party played the leading role in achievin ...
in the 1980s. In the 2001 parliamentary elections the party ran three candidates, in the 3 Nowabganj constituencies. Samad stood in the constituency Nawabganj-3, and got 468 votes (2.15%). In Nawabganj-1, party candidate Mohammed Nazrul Islam got 108 votes (0.04%) and in Nowabganj-2 Mohammed Bazlur Rahman got 204 votes (0.09%).


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