Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (translation: Citizens for Good Governance) (SHUJAN) is an organization in

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. The word SHUJAN, is a

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word. It came from an sentence "''Shushanar Janniya Nagorik – SHUJAN''". The headquarter of this organization located in Mohammadpur,

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History

SHUJAN was founded in 2002. Badiul Alam Majumdar is the founding secretary of Shujan. In October 2022, Shujan said that it would be not possible for a political government in Bangladesh to hold a fair election using the by-elections from Gaibandha-5 as an example. Badiul Alam Majumdar denied allegations by the chief election commission,

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, that he criticised the

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after failing to get a job from the commission.

Goals and objectives

SHUJAN's goals and objectives are to create a good government around the country. It focuses mainly for creating a democratic country. Often, they arrange some meetings, press conference for gaining their goals and drawing attention. They try to show the lacking of

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in the country. And also they give suggestions to election commission or authority for creating a pure democratic country. Not only SHUJAN tries to create good government but also it tries to solve

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s. They often work with other organizations.

Structure

There are four parts of SHUJAN. They are central, district,

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and union. Central committee plays an important role by taking decisions, work plan and future initiatives. The Current secretary of SHUJAN is Badiul Alam Majumdar. Current central coordinator of this organization is Dilip Kumar Sharkar.

Governing body

References

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