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Barisal-1
Barisal-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Abul Hasanat Abdullah of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Agailjhara Upazila, Agailjhara and Gournadi Upazila, Gournadi 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 Abul Hasanat Abdullah was 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 References External links * Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh Barishal District {{Bangladesh-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abul Hasnat Abdullah
Abul Hasanat Abdullah (born 10 December 1944) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a member of parliament for constituency Barisal-1. Career Abdullah was elected Upazila Chairman in Barisal in 1973. In 1975, his father, Abdur Rab Serniabat, was killed in the 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état. He and his family members fled Bangladesh. The new Government of Bangladesh declared his land vested property and took over them. In 2001, the land was returned to him. Gournadi Pourasabha Bangladesh Nationalist Party president Hannan Sharif announced the 25 decimals of the property belonged to Roads and Highways Department according to the records of the Land Revenue Department. Sharif started building the local office of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party office with the permission of Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mahfuzur Rahman. Abdullah was elected to parliament from Barisal-1. On 26 January 2000, Abdullah was appointed member of the parliamentary standing committee for home min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abul Hasanat Abdullah
Abul Hasanat Abdullah (born 10 December 1944) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a member of parliament for constituency Barisal-1. Career Abdullah was elected Upazila Chairman in Barisal in 1973. In 1975, his father, Abdur Rab Serniabat, was killed in the 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état. He and his family members fled Bangladesh. The new Government of Bangladesh declared his land vested property and took over them. In 2001, the land was returned to him. Gournadi Pourasabha Bangladesh Nationalist Party president Hannan Sharif announced the 25 decimals of the property belonged to Roads and Highways Department according to the records of the Land Revenue Department. Sharif started building the local office of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party office with the permission of Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mahfuzur Rahman. Abdullah was elected to parliament from Barisal-1. On 26 January 2000, Abdullah was appointed member of the parliamentary standing committee for home min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sunil Kumar Gupta
Sunil Kumar Gupta (7 July 1914 – 29 April 2009) was a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and the former Member of Parliament of Barisal-1 and Barisal-5. He was the organizer of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Early life Sunil Kumar Gupta was born on 7 July 1914 in Barisal District. Career Gupta was elected a member of parliament from Barisal-5 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979 Bangladeshi general election General elections were held in Bangladesh on 18 February 1979. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which won 207 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 51.3%. The Awami League became the main opposition party after winning .... He was elected to parliament from Barisal-1 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986 and 1988. He served as the cabinet minister in several ministry during Bangladesh Nationalist party and Jatiya Party (1979 to 1990). Personal life Sunil Gupta was married to Mrs Kamala Gupta and left behind four sons, tw ... [...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] |
Zahir Uddin Swapan
Zahir Uddin Swapan is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Barisal-1 Barisal-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Abul Hasanat Abdullah of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Agailjhara Upazila, Agailjhara and Gournadi Upaz .... Career Swapan was elected to parliament from Barisal-1 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in October 2001. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people 8th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{BangladeshNationalistParty-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 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agailjhara Upazila
Agailjhara ( bn, আগৈলঝাড়া) is an upazila (sub-district) of southern Bangladesh's Barisal District, part of the Barisal Division. Geography Agailjhara Upazila covers 155.47 km2. It is located between 22°54' and 23°03' north and between 90°03' and 90°13' east. It is bordered by Gournadi Upazila to the northeast, Wazirpur Upazila to the south, and Kotalipara Upazila to the west. History Agailjhara was formerly part of Gournadi. In the 16th century, the Faujdar of Bakla Sabi Khan settled in the village of Gaila with members of the Mughal Army. In 1921, a historic farmers convention was held in Agailjhara High English School presided by Khan Bahadur Hasem Ali Khan and advised by A. K. Fazlul Huq. During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, 8 people were murdered in the village of Kodaldhoa. A thana (police station headquarters) was formed in Agailjhara on 16 June 1981. The status of Agailjhara Thana was upgraded to upazila (sub-district) on 7 November 1983 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosharraf Hossain Shahjahan
Mosharraf Hossain Shahjahan (19 September 1939 – 5 May 2012) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament from Bhola-1. He was elected to parliament 6 times from Bhola. He was a former State Minister of Religious Affairs. Birth and early life Shahjahan was born on 19 September 1939 in Bhola District. Career Shahjahan joined Bangladesh Nationalist Party soon after Ziaur Rahman founded the party. He became the organizing secretary of Khulna District unit of the party. In 1991 he was made the State Minister for water resources in the first cabinet of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and in 2001 he was appointed State Minister of Religious Affairs in the second cabinet of Khaleda Zia. Death Shahjahan died on 5 May 2012 in United Hospital, Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psephos
Psephos: Adam Carr's Electoral Archive is an online archive of election statistics, and claims to be the world's largest online resource of such information. Psephos is maintained by Dr Adam Carr, of Melbourne, Australia, a historian and former aide to Australian MP Michael Danby and Senator David Feeney. It includes detailed statistics for presidential and legislative elections from 182 countries, with at least some statistics for every country that has what Carr considers to be genuine national elections. "Psephos" is a Greek word meaning "pebble", a reference to the Ancient Greek method of voting by dropping pebbles into urns, and is the root of the word psephology, the study of elections. Carr began accumulating Australian election statistics in the mid-1980s, with the intention of publishing a complete print edition of Australian national elections statistics dating back to 1901. With the advent of the World Wide Web, Carr abandoned this idea and began to place election stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazi Golam Mahbub
Kazi Golam Mahbub (23 December 1927 – 19 March 2006) was a Bangladeshi activist and politician. He participated in the Language Movement that took place in the erstwhile East Pakistan. Early life and education Mahbub was born in Kasba village in Backergunge District (now Barisal district). His father, Kazi Abdul Majed, was an activist of 1921 movement which was carried out in Barisal for achieving a more equitable arrangement for farmers. Mahbub matriculated from Barisal Torki High School in 1942 and then went to Calcutta Islamia College. He migrated to Dhaka in 1947. In 1948, he got admitted to the law department of the University of Dhaka as an LLM student. Career In the same year, he founded the East Pakistan Muslim Chhatra League. In January 1952, he was elected as convener of the All Party State Language Action Committee. Mahbub was a member of the central committee of the provincial unit of Awami League between 1949 and 1968 and the general secretary of the greater ... [...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] |
Talukder Md
Taluqdar is a historic occupational title in South Asia (predominantly Bengal) which is now used as a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Talukdar * Abdul Hady Talukdar (1905-1985), Bangladeshi academic administrator * Abdul Jabbar Talukdar, politician from Barisal * Abdul Majid Talukdar, former MP of Bogra-3 * Abdul Momin Talukdar (1929-1995), lawyer and former Deputy Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives * Amartya Talukdar, men's rights activist * Amjad Hossain Talukdar, former MP of Kurigram-3 * Anwar Jung Talukdar (died 1986), former MP of Dhaka-18 * Anwarul Kabir Talukdar (1944-2020), former Bangladeshi Minister of Power * Bhomita Talukdar, Assamese terrorist * Dipankar Talukdar (born 1952), former Minister of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs * Fazlul Haque Talukdar, politician from Barisal * Hatem Ali Talukdar, former MP of Tangail-2 * Jahangir Alam Talukdar (born 1968), Bangladeshi cricketer * Jayanta Talukdar (born 1986) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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