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Hasan Imam Khan
Hasan Imam Khan, also known as Sohel Hazari, is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Tangail-4. He is the former chairman of Kalihati Upazila, Kalihati upazila. Career Hasan Imam Khan was a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League. He was also a leader of Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League. He served as the chairman of Kalihati upazila. As chairman in 2011 he helped resolve a dispute between Bangladesh Army officers and Bangladesh Awami League men during a mayoral election. Awami League men were allegedly beaten by Army personal which caused Awami League personal to lay seize office of the returning officer of Bangladesh Election Commission. The officers involved were withdrawn after a meeting between officers in Shahid Salahuddin Cantonment in Ghatail and Khan. He worked as the organising secretary of Bangladesh Chhatra League. Khan was nominated by Bangladesh Awami League to contest the by-elections on 10 November 2015 in Tangail-4. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangail District
Tangail ( bn, টাঙ্গাইল জেলা) formerly a small Mohokuma of Greater Mymensingh district is a district (''zila'') in the central region of Bangladesh. In 1969, Tangail district was created by Tangail Mohokuma from its 237 square kilometers of its land and 3177 square kilometers of land from Mymensingh district. It is the largest district of Dhaka division by area and second largest by population (after Dhaka district). The population of Tangail zila is about 3.8 million and its area is . The main city of the district is Tangail. It is surrounded by Jamalpur District on the north, the Dhaka and Manikganj Districts on the south, the Mymensingh and Gazipur on the east, and the Sirajganj on the west. History Tangail was a part of Greater Mymensingh till 1969. Tangail was separated from Mymensingh District in order to subdue its dominance. Before the 6 Upazila event, Mymensingh District had a greater economic growth rate than the capital, Dhaka. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-European language family. Bangladesh forms the sovereign part of the historic and ethnolinguistic region of Bengal, which was divided during the Partition of India in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangail-4
Tangail-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2017 by Hasan Imam Khan of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Kalihati Upazila Kalihati ( bn, কালিহাতী) is an upazila of Tangail District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. History It has a historical background during the liberation war in 1971. A great child of this land named Kader Siddiqui who later gained the .... 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 In late 2014, Abdul Latif Siddiqui was expelled from the Awami League for criticizing the practice of hajj, which he described as a drain on the economy. He resigned from parliament on 1 September 2015. The resulting by-election was delayed by legal wrangling over whether his brother, Abdul Kader Siddique, could be a candidate. The by-election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalihati Upazila
Kalihati ( bn, কালিহাতী) is an upazila of Tangail District, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. History It has a historical background during the liberation war in 1971. A great child of this land named Kader Siddiqui who later gained the great title "Bir Uttom" for his contribution to the war. After the liberation war he gave 32 trucks of weapons to the government. In the liberation period he formed a group named "Kaderia Bahini" with the brave bangalees. The "Kaderia Bahini" was very ferocious against the Pakistanis. The Kalihati thana was established in 1928 and was turned into an upazila in 1983. Geography Kalihati is located at . It has 65035 households and total area of 295.6 km2.The upazila is surrounded by Bhuapur & Ghatail Upazila on the north, Tangail Sadar and Basail Upazila on the south, Sakhipur Upazila on the east, and the Jamuna River on the west. Demographics As of the 2011 Bangladesh census, Kalihati has a population of 410,293. Males constitute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Chhatra League
The Bangladesh Chhatra League ( bn, বাংলাদেশ ছাত্রলীগ; translation: Bangladesh Students' League; BSL), formerly known as the East Pakistan Student League, often simply called the Chhatra League, is a students' political organisation in Bangladesh, founded by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 4 January 1948. BSL is the student wing of the Bangladesh Awami League. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, the Bangladesh Chhatra League was a key player, but in 1972, it broke up into two factions based on their allegiance to Shekh Mujibur Rahman. The group was a pioneer in the 1952 Language Movement, the 1954 general election victory of the United Front (East Pakistan), the anti-Aiyub movement in 1958, the education movement in 1962, the Six-Point movement in 1966, the mass uprising in 1968, and the 1970 general elections. BSL has been repeatedly accused of using torture, extortion, violence, forced prostitution, and killings to instill fear. At least 33 peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League
Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League is an associate body and the volunteer wing of the Bangladesh Awami League. Gazi Mesbaul Hossain Shachchu is the acting president of the Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League. Its general secretary, Afzalur Rahman Babu. History Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League was founded on 27 July 1994. It traces it's origin to the Swechchhasebak Bahini founded in 1949 at the establishment of the Awami League by Zillur Rahman. In 2008, Pankaj Debnath, General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League was sentenced to jail for corruption by a special anti-corruption court established in the MP hostel of the Jatiya Sangshad complex by the Caretaker Government during the 2006-2008 Bangladeshi political crisis. He is the incumbent Member of Parliament from Barisal-4. On 25 November 2013, Rabiul Islam, the General Secretary of Deyara Union unit of Awami Swecchasebak League was killed in clashes with Bangladesh Nationalist Party supporters after they ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahid Salahuddin Cantonment
Shahid Salahuddin Cantonment is a cantonment located in Ghatail Upazila, Tangail District, Bangladesh. Ghatail Area Commander is Major General Sayed Tareq Hussain Syed Tareq Hussain awc, psc is a Major General of Bangladesh Army and incumbent Commandant of Bangladesh Ordnance Factory. Prior to join BOF, he was GOC of the 19th Infantry Division and & Area Commander, Ghatail Area. Career Hussain served in .... Installations *Combined Military Hospital *Military Police Centre and School *Army School of Education and Administration (ASEA) *Station Headquarters, Shaheed Salauddin Cantonment * Medical Corps Centre and School(AMCC&S) * 19 Infantry Division *309 Infantry Brigade *19 Artillery Brigade *Area Headquarter, Ghatail Area *7 Horse (Armoured Unit) *Station Supply Depot (SSD), Ghatail *Garrison Engineer (Army), Ghatail Cantonment *Static Signal Company, Ghatail *15 Field Ambulance *Cantonment Board, Shaheed Salauddin Cantonment References Cantonments of Bangladesh [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Latif Siddiqui
Abdul Latif Siddiqui (born 1943) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He represented the Tangail-4 constituency for two terms in the Bangladesh Parliament. He served as the Minister of Textiles and Jute in the second Hasina ministry and Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology in the third Hasina ministry. Abdul Latif Siddiqui is the elder brother of politician Abdul Kader Siddique. Career Siddiqui served as a Jatiya Sangsad member from Tangail-4 constituency. He resigned on 1 September 2015. He served as the Jute and Textiles Minister from 2009 to 2013. In January 2014, he was appointed as the Posts and Telecommunications along with Information Communication Technology Minister in the 10th cabinet. He was sacked by Hasina because he criticised her son Joy. Controversy In March 2014, Siddiqui was reported by media to have beaten a PDB engineer with a stick, leaving him severely injured. In September 2014, Siddiqui was widely criticised for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Kader Siddique
Abdul Kader Siddique ( bn, আবদুল কাদের সিদ্দিকী) is a Bangladeshi politician. He is popularly known under the title of Bangabir. He served as a Mukti Bahini member and organizer of the Bangladesh Liberation War. He fought with an estimated 17,000-strong guerrilla force in the Tangail region against the Pakistan Army.Brian May, "Indian Army Arrests 'Tiger of Tangail' After Dacca Bayoneting", ''The Times'', December 21, 1971, pg. 4. The army was called '' Kaderia Bahini'' (Kader's Army). At the end of the war, on 16 December 1971, Siddique's forces entered Dhaka along with the Indian forces, signaling the end of the war. He was awarded Bir Uttom by the Government of Bangladesh. Since 1999, he has been serving as the leader of his own-formed party Krishak Sramik Janata League. Career During the Bangladesh Liberation war, he formed Kader Bahini to fight against the Pakistan military. The Kader Bahini, as it is said, had 17 thousand personnel. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishak Sramik Janata League
The Krishak Sramik Janata League () is a political party in Bangladesh. Bangabir Kader Siddique is the president of the party, and Habibur Rahman Talukdar the general secretary. In the 2001 parliamentary election, the party won 1 out of 300 elected members. It joined Jatiya Oikya Front on 5 November 2018 But it leaves Jatiya Oikya Front Jatiya Oikya Front (English: National Unity Front; bn, জাতীয় ঐক্য ফ্রন্ট) was a Bangladesh-based political alliance of primarily four parties led by Kamal Hossain. The front officially declared its formation on ... in 2019 References Political parties in Bangladesh Political parties with year of establishment missing {{Bangladesh-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Bangladesh. Article 118 of the Bangladeshi Constitution allows the commission to be formed consisting of a chief election commissioner alongside a number of assisting election commissioners under permission granted by the president of Bangladesh. Structure The appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner of Bangladesh and other election commissioners (if any) is made by the president. When the election commission consists of more than one person, the chief election commissioner is to act as its chairman. Under the constitution, the term of office of any election commissioner is five years from the date on which he enters upon office. A person who has held office as chief election commissioner is not eligible for appointment in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awami League Politicians
In Urdu language, Awami is the adjectival form for '' Awam'', the Urdu language word for common people. The adjective appears in the following proper names: *Awami Colony, a neighbourhood of Landhi Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan *Awami Front, was a front of six Muslim political parties in Uttar Pradesh, India *Awami Muslim League (Pakistan), a Pakistani political party *Awami National Party, a secular and leftist Pashtun nationalist political party in Pakistan *Bangladesh Awami League, often simply called the Awami League or AL, one of the two major political parties of Bangladesh *National Awami Party, progressive political party in East and West Pakistan *National Awami Party (Bhashani), split-off from National Awami Party in East Pakistan *National Awami Party (Wali), Wali Khan faction of the National Awami Party was formed after the 1967 split in the original National Awami Party *National Awami Party (Muzaffar) or Bangladesh National Awami Party, political party in Banglades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
