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Jessore-3
Jessore-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Kazi Nabil Ahmed of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses all but one union parishad of Jessore Sadar Upazila: Basundia. History The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973. Ahead of the 2008 general election, the Election Commission redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the 2001 Bangladesh census. The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency. Ahead of the 2014 general election, the Election Commission expanded the boundaries of the constituency. Previously it excluded four more union parishads of Jessore Sadar Upazila Jashore Sadar ( bn, যশোর সদর) is an upazila of Jashore District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. Its administrative centre is the city of Jashore, which is also the centre of the district. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazi Nabil Ahmed
Kazi Nabil Ahmed (born 4 October 1969) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jessore-3 constituency since 2014. Ahmed is the current vice president of the Bangladesh Football Federation and the chairman of National Team's Committee as of December 2020. He is a Director of Gemcon Group. Early life Ahmed was born on 4 October 1969. He has a Masters of Science degree. Career Ahmed served as the director of Kazi & Kazi Tea Estate Limited in 2003. Ahmed was the chairperson of National Teams Committee in 2012. Ahmed was elected to Parliament from Jessore-3 unopposed as an Awami League candidate in an election boycotted by all major political parties. In 2016, Ahmed was the President of Bangladesh Football Federation. He was elected Vice-President of Bangladesh Football Federation in that years election. Ahmed was nominated by Awami League to contest from Jessore-3 in 2018. Ahmed was re-elected in the election. He got 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito
Mohammad Khaledur Rahman Tito (1 March 1945 – 10 January 2021) was a Bangladeshi politician. He served as a Jatiya Sangsad member as a Jatiya Party member during 1986–1988 and a Bangladesh Awami League member during 2009–2013 representing the Jessore-3 constituency. Early life Tito passed his matriculation in 1960 and intermediate exams in 1963 from Quaid e Azam College (now Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College Government Shaheed Suhrawardy College ( bn, সরকারি শহীদ সোহরাওয়ার্দী কলেজ )is a public college in Laxsmibazar near Bahadurshah Park of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. It offers higher-secondary educ ...) in Dhaka in the then East Pakistan. He then graduated from Michael Madhusudan College in Jessore in 1967 from jail. Tito joined politics at Chhatra Union in Michael Madhusudan College in 1963. He then got involved with left-leaning workers' politics in 1967. Career Tito was elected Jessore municipality cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Reza Raju
Ali Reza Raju (1945 – 16 July 2016) was a Bangladeshi politician and the former Member of Parliament from Jessore-3 Jessore-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Kazi Nabil Ahmed of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses all but one union parishad of Jessore Sadar Upazila: B .... Early life Raju was born in 1945 in Jessore Sadar Upazila, Jessore District, East Bengal, British Raj. Career Raju was elected to Parliament from Jessore-3 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1996 and served till 2001. Death Raju died on 16 July 2016 in the United Hospital, Dhaka. References 7th Jatiya Sangsad members 1945 births 2016 deaths Awami League politicians {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Ebadot Hossain Mondal
Mohammad Ebadot Hossain Mondal ( – 22 December 2019) was a Bangladeshi politician from Jhenaidah. He was elected Member of Parliament for BNP from Jessore-3 Constituency in 1979 in the Second National Parliament Election. He was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee of the Ministry of Industries. Biography Mondal was born in 1939 in the village of Natopara of Kaliganj of Jhenaidah. He was elected as a member of Jatiya Sangsad from Jessore-3 Jessore-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Kazi Nabil Ahmed of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses all but one union parishad of Jessore Sadar Upazila: B ... in 1979 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate. Later, he joined Jatiya Party in 1990. Mondal died on 22 December 2019 in Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital at the age of 80. References People from Jhenaidah District Politicians from Khulna Division 1939 births 2nd Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tariqul Islam
Tariqul Islam (16 November 1946 – 4 November 2018) was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician. He served as the Cabinet Minister of Ministry of Food, Ministry of Information and Ministry of Environment and Forest in the Second Khaleda Cabinet. He represented the Jessore-3 constituency in the 6th and 8th Jatiya Sangsad. Political life Tariqul got the dilapidated Shaheed Minar of Michael Madhusudan College repaired in Jessore in 1962 and was arrested by the then military government. He served as the General Secretary of the Satra Union of Michael Madhusudan College as a candidate of the students' union in the academic year 1963–1964. He was imprisoned in Rajshahi and Jessore for nine months in 1968 for his anti-Ayub movement. While at Rajshahi University, he was again imprisoned for leading the mass uprising of 1968. He joined the National Awami Party led by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani in 1970. He actively participated in the liberation war. From the National Awami Party, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raushan Ali
Raushan Ali is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament of Jessore-3. Career Ali was elected to parliament from (now defunct) Jessore-9 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973. He was elected again in 1991 from Jessore-3 Jessore-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2008 by Kazi Nabil Ahmed of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses all but one union parishad of Jessore Sadar Upazila: B .... References Awami League politicians Living people 5th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League central committee members Candidates in the 1970 Pakistani general election Members of the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
February 1996 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 15 February 1996. They were boycotted by most opposition parties, and saw voter turnout drop to just 21%.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I'', p525 The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), which won 278 of the 300 elected seats. This administration was short-lived, however, only lasting 12 days before the installation of caretaker government and fresh elections held in June. Background In March 1994, controversy over a parliamentary by-election, which the Bangladesh Awami League-led opposition claimed the BNP government had rigged, led to an indefinite boycott of Parliament by the entire opposition. The opposition also began a program of repeated general strikes to press its demand that Khaleda Zia's government resign and that a caretaker government supervise a general election. Efforts to mediate the dispute, under the auspices of the Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 27 February 1991. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) emerged as the largest party in parliament, winning 140 of the 300 directly-elected seats. The BNP formed a government with the support of the Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami, and on 20 March Khaleda Zia was sworn in for her first term as Prime Minister. The elections were described to be free and fair by many international observers, and it played a major role in solidifying Bangladeshi democracy in aftermath of the anti-government protests in late 1980s. Voter turnout was 55.4%. Background In 1990 a popular mass uprising led by future Prime Ministers Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina deposed the former Army Chief Hussain Muhammad Ershad from the Presidency in December. Ershad had assumed the Presidency in 1983 following a coup d'état in 1982. The previous parliamentary elections had been held in 1988 and saw Ershad's Jatiya Party win 251 of the 300 seats. However, the election ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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