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Bhola-4
Bhola-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Abdullah Al Islam Jacob of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Char Fasson and Manpura upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from a Bakerganj constituency when the former Bakerganj District was split into four districts: Bhola, Bakerganj, Jhalokati Jhalokati ( bn, ঝালকাঠি) is a town in Jhalokati district in the Barisal Division, division of Barisal in southern Bangladesh. It is the administrative headquarter and the largest town of Jhalokati district. The town covers an area of ..., and Pirojpur. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Abdullah Al Islam Jacob 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 M. M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdullah Al Islam Jacob
Abdullah Al Islam Jakob is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the present chairman of the Standing Committee on Ministry of Youth & Sports and former deputy Minister of Environment and Forest. He is also a member of parliament for Bhola-4. His father M. M. Nazrul Islam was also a member of the Jatiya Sangsad. Early life Jakob was born on 21 December 1972 in Char Fasson, Bhola District, Bangladesh. Career Jakob was elected to parliament from Bhola-4 in 2014. He won at 11th Jatiya Sangsad general election, held on 30 December 2018. He built a 16-storey tower in Char Fasson, Bhola named Jakob Tower Jakob Tower ( bn, জ্যাকব টাওয়ার) is a tourist watchtower located in the Char Fasson town of Bhola Island in southern Bangladesh. Natural beauty can be enjoyed from this tower up to an area of . It is the tallest watcht ... to promote tourism in Bhola. References Living people 1972 births People from Bhola District Politicians from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazim Uddin Alam
Nazimuddin Alam is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament from Bhola-4. Career Alam was elected to Parliament in 2001 from Bhola-4 as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was charged with the attempted murder of Akhtarul Alam, a Bangladesh Jubo League who was attacked on 16 January 2004. The case was filled on 11 March 2007 against Alam and an arrest warrant was issued against him on 5 April 2008. He is a member of the executive committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was arrested on 2 February 2018 by Bangladesh Police for vandalism in the Bangladesh Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Bangladesh ( bn, বাংলাদেশ সুপ্রীম কোর্ট) is the highest court of law in Bangladesh. It is composed of the High Court Division and the Appellate Division, and was created by Part VI C ... premises. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people 8th Jatiya Sangsad me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazimuddin Alam
Nazimuddin Alam is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament from Bhola-4. Career Alam was elected to Parliament in 2001 from Bhola-4 as a candidate of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was charged with the attempted murder of Akhtarul Alam, a Bangladesh Jubo League who was attacked on 16 January 2004. The case was filled on 11 March 2007 against Alam and an arrest warrant was issued against him on 5 April 2008. He is a member of the executive committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was arrested on 2 February 2018 by Bangladesh Police for vandalism in the Bangladesh Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Bangladesh ( bn, বাংলাদেশ সুপ্রীম কোর্ট) is the highest court of law in Bangladesh. It is composed of the High Court Division and the Appellate Division, and was created by Part VI C ... premises. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people 8th Jatiya Sangsad me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saad Zagulul Faruk
Saad Zagulul Faruk (27 February 2003) is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and a former member of parliament for Bhola-4 Bhola-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Abdullah Al Islam Jacob of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Char Fasson and Manpura upazilas. History .... Career Faruk was elected to parliament from Bhola-4 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986 and 1988. Death Faruk died on 27 February 2003. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Faruk, Saad Zagulul Jatiya Party politicians 2003 deaths 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members 4th Jatiya Sangsad members People from Bhola District Politicians from Barisal Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhola District
Bhola District ( bn, ভোলা) is an administrative district (''zila'') in south-central Bangladesh, which includes Bhola Island, the largest island of Bangladesh. It is located in the Barisal Division and has an area of 3403.48 km2. It is bounded by Lakshmipur and Barisal District to the north, the Bay of Bengal to the south, by Lakshmipur and Noakhali districts, the (lower) Meghna river and Shahbazpur Channel to the east, and by Patuakhali District and the Tetulia river to the west. About natural gas has been found at Kachia in Bhola which is being used to run a power station. History thumbnail, left, 250px, South Shahbajpur Island ( marked as DECCAN SHABAZPOUR l.) which is now Bhola in 1778 map by James Rennell The previous name of Bhola district is Ashutosh. J. C. Jack stated in his "Bakerganj Gazetier" that the island started creating in 1235 and cultivation in this area started in 1300. In 1500, Portuguese and Mog pirates established their bases in this isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jatiya Sangsad
The Jatiya Sangsad ( bn, জাতীয় সংসদ, lit=National Parliament, translit=Jatiyô Sôngsôd), often referred to simply as the ''Sangsad'' or JS and also known as the House of the Nation, is the supreme legislative body of Bangladesh. The current parliament of Bangladesh contains 350 seats, including 50 seats reserved exclusively for women. Elected occupants are called Member of Parliament, or MP. The 11th National Parliamentary Election was held on 30 December 2018. Elections to the body are held every five years, unless a parliament is dissolved earlier by the President of Bangladesh. The leader of the party (or alliance of parties) holding the majority of seats becomes the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and so the head of the government. The President of Bangladesh, the ceremonial head of state, is chosen by Parliament. Since the December 2008 national election, the current majority party is the Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina. Etymology The Constit ... [...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] |
Naziur Rahman Manzur
Naziur Rahman Manzur ( bn, নাজিউর রহমান মঞ্জুর; 15 March 1948 – 6 April 2008) was a Bangladesh Jatiya Party politician, founding chairman of the party, former government minister in the cabinet of Hussain Mohammad Ershad and the first mayor (elected by commissioners) of Dhaka City Corporation. Early life Manzur was born on 15 March 1948 to a Bengali Muslim family known as the Taluqdars of Balia in Bhola Island, then located in the Bakerganj District of the Dominion of Pakistan's East Bengal province. His father, Bazlur Rahman Taluqdar, was a descendant of Munga Khan who arrived in Bengal from Garmsir in Afghanistan during the eighteenth century. Khan settled in the village of Saluka in greater Barisal, and his son, Shaykh Muhammad, served as a revenue officer for the Mughal emperors and earned the title of '' shiqdar''. He received a ''kharija'' taluq in Bhola's Balia and Gazaria areas, and thus migrated from Saluka to Balia. Manzur's brother, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 1996 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 12 June 1996. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Awami League, which won 146 of the 300 seats, beginning Sheikh Hasina's first-term as Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 74.96%, the highest to date. This election was the second to be held in 1996, following controversial elections held in February a few months earlier. Electoral system In 1996, the 330 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consisted of 300 directly elected seats using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and an additional 30 seats reserved for women. The reserved seats are distributed based on the election results. Each parliament sits for a five-year term. Background The June 1996 election marked the second general election to be held within only a four-month period. Previously in February, a general election had been held which was boycotted by all major opposition parties. The opposition were demanding the installation of a neutral caretake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 1 October 2001. The 300 single-seat constituencies of the Jatiya Sangsad were contested by 1,935 candidates representing 54 parties and including 484 independents. The elections were the second to be held under the caretaker government concept, introduced in 1996. The result was a win for the Four Party Alliance of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, Jatiya Party (Manju) and Islami Oikya Jote. BNP leader Khaleda Zia became Prime Minister. Background The Seventh Parliament headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was dissolved on 13 July 2001, having completed its designated 5-year term (the first parliamentary administration to ever do so) and power was transferred to the caretaker government headed by Justice Latifur Rahman. Electoral system In 2001, the 345 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consisted of 300 seats directly elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and 45 seat ... [...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] |
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