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Jessore-6
Jessore-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2020 by Shahin Chakladar of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Keshabpur Upazila. 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 reduced the boundaries of the constituency. Previously it included Abhaynagar Upazila and one union parishad of Manirampur Upazila Manirampur Upazila ( bn, মণিরামপুর) is an upazila of Jashore District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. It is bounded by Jashore Sadar Upazila on the north, Kalaroa and Jhikargachha upazilas on the west, Abhay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahin Chakladar
Shahin Chakladar is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jessore-6 Jessore-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2020 by Shahin Chakladar of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Keshabpur Upazila. History The constituency was c ... constituency winning the July 2020 by-election. Career Chaklader was accuse in an extortion case along with Sheikh Helal. He was acquitted in the case while Sheikh Helal was found guilty in 2008. Chakladar has been the general secretary of Jessore district Awami League since 2004. He was the chairman of Jessore Sadar Upazila Parishad from 2009 to 2020. After the death of Ismat Ara Sadeq, Member of Parliament and former Minister of State for Public Administration on 21 January 2020, he was elected member of parliament in the by-election of Jessore-6 vacant seat on the nomination of Awami League on 14 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ASHK Sadek
ASHK Sadek (30 April 1934 – 9 September 2007) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician, who was a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jessore-6 constituency, and a former Education Minister of Bangladesh. Early life Sadek was born on 30 April 1934 in Barenga, Keshabpur, Jessore district. His father was the joint commissioner of the Government of Bengal. In 1951, he graduated from secondary school and in 1955 he completed his master's degree. Sadek joined the civil service of Pakistan in 1956. Career From 1959 to 1961, he served as the sub-divisional officer of Nilphamari and Narayanganj. He worked as the Comilla deputy commissioner from 1966 to 1967 and the secretary to the Governor of East Pakistan from 1969 to 1970. He was the secretary to Tajuddin Ahmad, the then Prime Minister of Bangladesh and later chief secretary to the President of Bangladesh. He was a secretary of a number of ministries and retired from government service in 1988. In 1996 he was elected to the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Kader (politician)
Abdul Kader is a politician of Jessore District of Bangladesh and former member of parliament for Jessore-6 constituency in 1988. Birth and early life Kader was born in Jessore district. Career Abdul Kader is a lawyer. He was associated with the politics of the Jatiya Party. He was elected to parliament from Jessore-6 constituency in as an independent candidate in 1988 Bangladeshi general election General elections were held in Bangladesh on 3 March 1988. They were boycotted by several major parties, including the Bangladesh Awami League, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the Communist Party of Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, the .... In the fifth parliamentary elections of 1991, he was defeated by the Jatiya Party. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Jessore District Jatiya Party (Ershad) politicians 4th Jatiya Sangsad members {{Khulna-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ismat Ara Sadek
Ismat Ara Sadique (1 September 1941 – 21 January 2020) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the state minister of the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education and Ministry of Public Administration. She was elected a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jessore-6 constituency from 2014 until her death. Early life Sadique was born on 1 September 1941 in Shatani House in Bogra District. In 1956, she graduated from Bogra VM Girls school, and in 1958 from Holy Cross College, Dhaka. In 1960, she graduated from Eden College, Dhaka. Career Sadique joined the Bangladesh Awami League in 1992. She established a women's unit in Keshabpur in 1996. From 2009 to 2013 she served in the Bangladesh Women Welfare Council. She was the President of Shathi Samajkalayan Sangstha, a charity providing free treatment to students and school supplies. She was made state minister of Primary and Mass Education on 12 January 2014. Later, she was made the state minister of Public Administration o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Halim (politician)
Abdul Halim is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) The Jatiya Party ( bn, জাতীয় পার্টি, translit=Jatiyo Party, lit=National Party) is a conservative, nationalist political party in Bangladesh and is currently the main opposition in the Jatiya Sangsad, against the Awami ... politician and the former Member of Parliament of Jessore-6. Career Halim was elected to parliament from Jessore-6 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986. References Jatiya Party politicians Living people 4th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abul Islam
Abul Islam (1924 – 20 February 2004) was a Bangladeshi freedom fighter and politician from Jessore belonging to Bangladesh Awami League. He was a member of the Jatiya Sangsad. He was known as Sabas Chairman. Biography Islam was born on 1924 at Hajirbag in Jhikargacha of Jessore. He was elected as the chairman of the then Balla Union Parishad in 1958. In 1964 Ayub Khan introduced basic democracy system. Islam sent a letter to the office of the president and speaker in which he criticised it. He was the only chairman who directly criticised the system. After this incident ''The Daily Ittefaq'' published a news article about him titled ''Sabas Chairman''. Later, he received "Sabas Chairman" title from Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Islam was elected as a member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly in 1970. He took part in the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971. After the Liberation of Bangladesh he was appointed as a member of the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh. Later, he wa ... [...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] |
1986 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 7 May 1986. A total of 1,527 candidates contested the election. The result was a victory for the Jatiya Party, which won 153 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 61.1%. Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the winner of the previous elections, boycotted the election. British observers including a journalist termed the elections a "tragedy for democracy" and a "cynically frustrated exercise". Background In 1982 a coup d'état led by Army Chief Hussain Muhammad Ershad overthrew democratically elected President Abdus Sattar, suspended the Constitution and imposed martial law. Parliament was dissolved and all political parties were banned. Ershad appointed Justice A. F. M. Ahsanuddin Chowdhury as President on 27 March 1982, a position which he held until December 1983 when Ershad assumed the presidency himself. In 1983 Ershad promised to hold presidential elections in May 1984 and to restore parliamentary government the following year. Howev ... [...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] |
Risingbd
Risingbd.com is an online news portal in Bangladesh covering district and national news. The site publishes latest news in both Bengali and English Language. It started its journey on 26 April 2013 with the theme of highlighting Bangladesh positively to the national and international readers. History risingbd24.com launched initially in 2012 but the official launched date was 26 April 2013. Contents are arranged in various categories. The agency is financed by Walton group. risingbd.com listed for approved news media from Ministry of Information, Bangladesh by 30 July 2020 Editorial board S M Zahid Hasan is the publisher of the news portal. Senior journalist M. M. Kayser is the acting editor. See also * BBC Bangla * Bdnews24.com * List of newspapers in Bangladesh This list of newspapers in Bangladesh is a list of newspapers printed and distributed in Bangladesh. Newspapers published in Bangladesh are written in Bengali or English language versions. Most Bangladeshi daily ... [...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] |
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