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Bagerhat-1
Bagerhat-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2009 by Sheikh Helal Uddin of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Chitalmari, Fakirhat, and Mollahat upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from the Khulna-1 constituency when the former Khulna District was split into three districts: Bagerhat, Khulna, and Satkhira. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Sheikh Helal Uddin 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 Sheikh Hasina stood for three seats in the 2008 general election: Bagerhat-1, Rangpur-6, and Gopalganj-3. After winning all three, she chose to represent Gopalganj-3 and quit the other two, triggering by-elections in them. Helal Uddin was elected unopposed in March 2009 after the Election Commission disqualified the other t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheikh Helal Uddin
Sheikh Helal Uddin is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and member of parliament from Bagerhat-1. Early life Sheikh Helal was born on 1 January 1961. He studied up to H.S.C. or grade 12. His father Sheikh Naser was the younger brother of Sheikh Mujib, the first president of Bangladesh, who was killed in assassination of Sheikh Mujib. He is the cousin of Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina. Career Sheikh Helal's election rally in Mollahat Upazila in 2001 was bombed by members Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami. He was elected to Parliament from Bagerhat-1 in 1996 in a by-election after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina abdicated the seat. She was elected in 3 seats. He was re-elected in 2001 from Bagerhat-1. In 2008, Sheikh Hasina won the election from Bagerhat-1, Rangpur-6, and Gopalganj-3 but vacated Bagerhat-1 and Rangpur-6. He won the Bagerhat-1 election in April 2009 unopposed after the other two candidates were disqualified by Bangladesh Election Commission. He was re-ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bangladeshi Politician)
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He was elected a member of parliament from Bagerhat-1 in February 1996. Career Prafulla Kumar Mandal was elected to parliament from Bagerhat-1 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 15 February 1996 Bangladeshi general election. He was defeated from Bagerhat-1 Bagerhat-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2009 by Sheikh Helal Uddin of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Chitalmari, Fakirhat, and Mollahat upazilas. ... constituency on 12 June 1996 and 2001 on the nomination of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. References Possibly living people People from Bagerhat District Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 6th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mozammel Hossain
Mozammel Hossain (1 August 1940 – 10 January 2020) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a member of Parliament from Bagerhat-1 and Bagerhat-4. Early life Hossain was born on 1 August 1940. He had a M.B.B.S. degree. Career Hossain was elected as a member of the parliament from Bagerhat-1 in 1991. Later, he was elected from Bagerhat-4 in 1996. He was also elected to the parliament in 2008, 2014 and 2018 from Bagerhat-4 as a Bangladesh Awami League Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ... candidate. Hossain was appointed as the state minister of the Ministry of Social Welfare and Ministry of Women and Children Affairs in 1996. He was the chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of Ministry of Social Welfare. Death On 10 January 2020, Hossain died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MA Khayer
MA Khayer is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament of Khulna-1 And Bagerhat-1 Bagerhat-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2009 by Sheikh Helal Uddin of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Chitalmari, Fakirhat, and Mollahat upazilas. .... Career Khayer was elected to parliament from Khulna-1 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973. He was elected to parliament from Bagerhat-1 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1986. References Awami League politicians 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members 1st Jatiya Sangsad members Year of death missing Year of birth missing People from Bagerhat District {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu
Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu is a Bangladesh Jatiya politician and former Member of Parliament from Bagerhat-1. Career Bachchu was elected to parliament from Bagerhat-1 as a candidate of Jatiya Party in 1988. He claimed to have a close ties with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. In 2011 he opened a deep sea fishing company, Eden Fisheries Ltd, and by 2013 had bought 11 ships for 1.5 billion taka. Bachchu served as the chairman of Basic Bank from September 2009 to 2013. Basic Bank is a state owned bank in Bangladesh. Controversy During Bachchu's chairmanship more than 20 billion taka was embezzled from the bank. In 2015 Bangladesh Anti Corruption Commission filled 56 cases regarding the corruption in the bank. According to Bangladesh Bank, 45 billion taka in total was embezzled from the bank from 2010 to 2013, during the chairmanship of Bachchu. In July 2017 Bangladesh High Court ordered Bangladesh Anti Corruption Commission to investigate his alleged role in the Basic Bank scam. He wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khulna-1
Khulna-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Panchanan Biswas of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Batiaghata and Dacope upazilas. History The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973. Ahead of the 2008 general election, the Election Commission redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the 2001 Bangladesh census. The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency. Ahead of the 2014 general election, the Election Commission reduced the boundaries of the constituency. Previously it had also included one union parishad of Paikgachha Upazila: Deluti. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s Sheikh Hasina stood for three seats in the June 1996 general election: Bagerhat-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rangpur-6
Rangpur-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Pirganj Upazila. 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 Sheikh Hasina stood for two seats in the 2014 general election: Rangpur-6 and Gopalganj-3. After winning both, she chose to represent Gopalganj-3 and quit the other, triggering a by-election in Rangpur-6. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury of the Awami League was elected unopposed in January 2014 after no one else filed to contest the by-election scheduled for February 2014. Elections in the 2000s Sheikh Hasina stood for three seats in the 2008 general election: Bagerhat-1, Rangpur-6, and Gopalganj-3. After winning all three, she chose to represent Gopalganj-3 and quit the other two, t ... [...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 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gopalganj-3
Gopalganj-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since June 1996 by Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Kotalipara and Tungipara upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from a Faridpur constituency when the former Faridpur District was split into five districts: Rajbari, Faridpur, Gopalganj, Madaripur, and Shariatpur Shariatpur ( bn, শরিয়তপুর জেলা, ''Shariatpur Jela'' also ''Shariatpur Zila'') is a district in the Dhaka Division of central Bangladesh. It is bounded by Munshiganj district on the north, Barisal district on the south, C .... Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s References External links * Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh Gopalganj District, Bangladesh {{Dhaka ... [...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 election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 5 January 2014, in accordance with the constitutional requirement that elections must take place within the 90-day period before the expiration of the term of the Jatiya Sangshad on 24 January 2014. The elections were not free and fair. They were preceded by a government crackdown on the opposition, with Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Opposition leader Khaleda Zia was put under house arrest. There were widespread arrests of other opposition members, violence and strikes by the opposition, attacks on religious minorities, and extrajudicial killings by the government, with around 21 people killed on election day. Almost all major opposition parties boycotted the elections, resulting in 153 of the total 300 seats being uncontested and the incumbent Awami League-led Grand Alliance of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina winning a landslide majority. Hasina became the first prime minister in the history of Bangladesh to be re-elected to serve a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 29 December 2008. The two main parties in the election were the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Khaleda Zia, and the Bangladesh Awami League Party, led by Sheikh Hasina. The Bangladesh Awami League Party formed a fourteen-party Grand Alliance including Ershad's Jatiya Party, while the BNP formed a four-party alliance which included the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami. The election was originally scheduled for January 2007, but it was postponed by a military-controlled caretaker government for an extended period of time. The elections resulted in a landslide victory for the Awami League-led grand alliance, which won 263 seats out 300. The main rival four-party alliance received only 32 seats, with the remaining four going to independent candidates. Polling in the constituency of Noakhali-1 was postponed due to the mysterious death of the AL candidate. The election for the seat was held on 12 January 2009 instead and was w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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