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Dhaka-14
Dhaka-14 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Savar Upazila and 07/08, 09, 10, 11 and 12 of Dhaka North City Corporation Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) or Dhaka Uttar City Corporation was created as an autonomous body that governs 54 northern wards of Dhaka to better manage local services, but has since added new areas. It is one of two municipal corporations .... History The constituency was created for the first general elections in 2008. Members of Parliament Elections References External links * {{Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh Dhaka District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aga Khan Mintu
Aga Khan Mintu (born 15 March 1952) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and former Jatiya Sangsad member from the Dhaka-14 constituency. Career Mintu served as the commissioner of Gabtali-Mirpur area in 1994. He was the vice president of Greater Mirpur Thana Awami League. He is currently the president of Shah Ali Thana Awami League. Before that he did student politics in 1970, and was a freedom fighter in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Aslamul Haque Aslamul Haque (14 May 1961 – 4 April 2021) was a Bangladeshi Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the epo ..., the previous Jatiya Sangsad member from the Dhaka-14 constituency, died in office on 4 April 2021. Mintu was then elected uncontested in that vacant position on 24 June in a by-election. References 1952 births Living people People from Dhaka District Polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Md Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil
Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil is Bangladesh Awami League politician and the Member of Parliament from Dhaka-14. He is serving as General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami Jubo league. Career Mainul Hossain Khan Nikhil is the general secretary of the Bangladesh Awami Jubo League, an affiliate of the Bangladesh Awami League. He was nominated by the Awami League as a candidiate for the Dhaka-14 constituency in the 12th Parliament Election. On 7 January 2024, he was elected member of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ... for the Dhaka-14 constituency. References Awami League politicians Living people 12th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{Bangladesh-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aslamul Haque
Aslamul Haque (14 May 1961 – 4 April 2021) was a Bangladeshi Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay. Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ... entrepreneur, businessman and politician. He was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and Member of Bangladesh National Parliament from Dhaka-14 constituency since its inception in 2009 until his death in 2021. Biography Haque attended National Bangla High School. He was the founder and chairman of Maisha Group, a business conglomerate in Bangladesh. He began building his business in 1992. Maisha Group began as Maisha Property Development Ltd. He was the member of Commonwealth of Independent States-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Maisha Group developed Arisha Private Economic Zone in Dhaka. Controversy In March 2020, Bangladesh Inland Water Trans ... [...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] |
Dhaka-13
Dhaka-13 is a constituency represented in the National Parliament of Bangladesh since 1996. Current Member of Parliament of this constituency is Advocate Jahangir Kabir Nanak of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34 of Dhaka North City Corporation Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) or Dhaka Uttar City Corporation was created as an autonomous body that governs 54 northern wards of Dhaka to better manage local services, but has since added new areas. It is one of two municipal corporations .... History The constituency was created for the first general elections in 1996. Members of Parliament Elections References External links * {{Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh Dhaka District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhaka-15
Dhaka-15 is a constituency in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh. It has been represented since 2008 by Kamal Ahmed Majumder of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Dhaka North City Corporation wards 4, 13, 14, and 16. History The constituency was created when, ahead of the 2008 general election, the Election Commission redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the 2001 Bangladesh census In 2001, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics conducted a national census in Bangladesh, ten years after the 1991 census. They recorded data from all of the districts, upazilas, and main cities in Bangladesh including statistical data on populati .... The 2008 redistricting added 7 new seats to the Dhaka metropolitan area, increasing the number of constituencies in the capital from 8 to 15. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Ref ... [...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] |
Kamal Hossain
Kamal Hossain (born 20 April 1937) is a founding leader, lawyer and politician of Bangladesh. He is known as the "father of the Bangladeshi constitution" and regarded as an icon of secular democracy in the Indian subcontinent. Hossain currently heads his own law firm in Dhaka, serves as president of the Gano Forum political party, and advocates for democratic reform. His autobiography ''Bangladesh: Quest for Freedom and Justice'' is an important book on Bangladeshi history, particularly regarding the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. Hossain studied in the United States at the University of Notre Dame and in the United Kingdom at the University of Oxford. He was called to the bar of England and Wales in Lincoln's Inn in 1959. Hossain enrolled as an advocate in the High Court of East Pakistan. He worked as a junior lawyer with the famous lawyer and statesman Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, who was the last Prime Minister of Bengal and fifth Prime Minister of Pakistan. His early commerc ... [...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] |
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] |
Bangladesh Nationalist Party
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and one of the major political parties of Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by former Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman after the Presidential election of 1978, with a view of uniting the people with a nationalist ideology. Since then, the BNP won the second, fifth, sixth and eighth national elections and two Presidential elections in 1978 and 1981. The party also holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country, with 116 seats in the seventh national election of June 1996. It has currently 7 MPs in parliament after 2018 general election. Although the party was initially founded on a nationalistic principle, many of its leaders want an Islamic government and its main supporters are Islam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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