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Dhaka-17
Dhaka-17 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Dhaka Cantonment and Dhaka North City Corporation wards 15 and 18 through 20. 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 populatio .... 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 Key Elections Election 2018 General Election 2014 ...
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Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque
Akbar Hossain Pathan (born 18 August 1948), known by the stage name Farooque, is a Bangladeshi actor, politician, businessman, producer, member of parliament and a freedom fighter. He is known as 'Mia Bhai' (respected brother) to mass people. He appeared in over 150 films in a career spanning more than five decades. Most of his films were commercially and critically successful. Farooque is one of the most recognizable star of the classical and golden era of Bangladeshi film industry. He is the first awardee of the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for the film Lathial in 1975 which he declined. In addition, he was awarded the Bangladesh National Film Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2016. As one of the most dominant actors in the Bangladeshi movie scene during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, Farooque is widely considered one of the greatest and influential actors in the history of Bangladeshi cinema. He is critically acclaimed as one of the finest actors ...
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SM Abul Kalam Azad
S.M. Abul Kalam Azad is a Bangladesh Nationalist Front politician and a former Member of Parliament from Dhaka-17 Dhaka-17 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Dhaka Cantonment and Dhaka North City Co .... Early life Azad was born on 1 November 1954. He has completed M.S.S. in political science. Career Azad was elected to Parliament from Dhaka-17 in 2014 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Front candidate. His constituency, Dhaka-17, had the lowest voter turnout in the 2014 elections at 6.4 percent. He is the coordinator of Bangladesh Nationalist Front. References Bangladesh Nationalist Front politicians Living people 10th Jatiya Sangsad members 1954 births {{Dhaka-politician-stub ...
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Abdur Rouf (Dhaka Politician)
Abdur Rouf is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Dhaka-17 Dhaka-17 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Dhaka Cantonment and Dhaka North City Co .... Career Rouf was elected to parliament from Dhaka-17 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people 2nd Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{Dhaka-politician-stub ...
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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 sha ...
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Kazi Mozammel Haque
Kazi Mozammel Haque is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament of Dhaka-17 Dhaka-17 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Dhaka Cantonment and Dhaka North City Co .... Career Haque was elected to parliament from Dhaka-17 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973. References Awami League politicians Living people 1st Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{Dhaka-politician-stub ...
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Andaleeve Rahman
Andaleeve Rahman Partho (born 20 April 1974) is the president of the Bangladesh Jatiya Party, a Member of Parliament and the principal of British School of Law in Dhaka. Early life Andaleeve Rahman was born on 20 April 1974 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His father, Naziur Rahman Manzur, was a politician and former minister who served as the founding chairman of the Bangladesh Jatiya Party and as the Mayor of Dhaka. They belonged to a Bengali Muslim family known as the Taluqdars of Balia in Bhola Island. Through his paternal grandfather Bazlur Rahman Taluqdar, Andaleeve Rahman was a direct descendant of Munga Khan, an eighteenth-century who arrived in Bengal from Garmsir in Afghanistan who settled in the village of Saluka in greater Barisal. Khan's son, Shaykh Muhammad, served as a revenue officer for the Mughal emperors, earning the title of '' shiqdar'' and receiving a ''kharija'' taluq in Bhola's Balia and Gazaria areas, where the family established themselves as ''taluqdars''. A ...
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Bangladesh Nationalist Front
Bangladesh Nationalist Front is a political party in Bangladesh. Former member of parliament for Dhaka-17 Abul Kalam Azad is the chairman of the party. History Nazmul Huda founded Bangladesh Nationalist Front in August 2012 after resigning from Bangladesh Nationalist Party on 6 June 2012. Abul Kamal Azad, member-secretary, expelled Huda from Bangladesh Nationalist Front. The Front was registered with the Bangladesh Election Commission The Bangladesh Election Commission ( bn, বাংলাদেশ নির্বাচন কমিশন), abbreviated and publicly referred to as EC, is an independent constitutional body that operates the legal functions of election laws in ... in 2015. In 2015 during talks with President Abdul Hamid over the next election Bangladesh Nationalist Front proposed that the Election Commission Secretariat be scrapped. References Nationalist parties in Asia Political parties in Bangladesh Political parties established in 2012 2012 es ...
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Hussain Muhammad Ershad
Lt. Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad ( bn, হুসেইন মুহাম্মদ এরশাদ; 1 February 1930 – 14 July 2019) was a Bangladeshi Army Chief politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990, a time many consider to have been a military dictatorship. He seized power as head of the army during a bloodless coup against President Abdus Sattar on 24 March 1982 (by imposing martial law and suspending the Constitution). He declared himself President in 1983, and subsequently won the controversial 1986 Bangladeshi presidential election. Despite claims to have legitimately won the 1986 election, many consider his regime as an era of military dictatorship. Ershad served in the Presidential office until 1990, when he was forced to resign following a popular pro-democracy mass uprising led by Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina. Ershad founded the Jatiya Party in 1986 and became a Member of Parliament for that party in the constituency of Rangpur-3 ...
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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 Constituti ...
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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 st ...
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Hannan Shah
Abu Sayed Matiul Hannan Shah (known as Hannan Shah; 11 October 1941 – 27 September 2016) was a Bangladeshi politician and army officer from Gazipur District. He served as the jute minister and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Gazipur-4 constituency during 1991–1996. Early life Shah was born in Ghagtia, Kapasia, Gazipur District in the-then British India. His father, Fakir Abdul Mannan, was a minister in the Pakistan government during 1965–1968. In 1962, Hannan Shah was commissioned in Pakistan Army. Shah's younger brother, Shah Abu Nayeem Mominur Rahman, was a judge in the Supreme Court's Appellate Division. Career Shah retired from the Bangladesh Army as a Brigadier general in 1981. He joined Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 1983. He served as the standing committee member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Shah served as the Minister of Jute during 1991–96. On 25 November 2013, Shah was arrested by Bangladesh Police from his residence. Personal life and ...
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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 ...
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