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Jhenaidah-4
Jhenaidah-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Anwarul Azim Anar of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Kaliganj Upazila and four union parishads of Jhenaidah Sadar Upazila: Fursandi, Ghorshal, Moharajpur, and Naldanga. History The constituency was created in 1984 from the Jessore-3 constituency when the former Jessore District was split into four districts: Jhenaidah, Jessore Jessore ( bn, যশোর, jôshor, ), officially Jashore, is a city of Jessore District situated in Khulna Division. It is situated in the south-western part of Bangladesh. It is the administrative centre (headquarter) of the eponymous district ..., Magura, and Narail. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s References External links * Parliamentary constituencies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anwarul Azim Anar
Md. Anwarul Azim Anar (3 January 1968 – 13 May 2024) was a Bangladeshi Awami League politician and a three-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Jhenaidah-4 constituency from 2014 until his death in 2024. Career Anar allegedly got involved in the drug trade around 1986 when the Jatiya Party was in power. He used to smuggle goods through the Baghda border in India to the Baghavanga border in Bangladesh. In 1991, Anar allegedly got involved in gold smuggling along with Paritosh Tagore, another smuggler from Jhenaidah. In 1996, he was involved in arms smuggling. In 2007, Interpol had issued a Red Notice against Anar for his connection with multiple criminal cases including arms and explosives. Anar was also accused in a murder case. A special court in Chuadanga issued a public notice in 2009 to arrest Anar. In 2012, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Home Affairs, he was acquitted from the case due to political considerations. Anar was first elected to the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noor Uddin (politician)
Noor Uddin is a politician of Jhenaidah District of Bangladesh and a former member of parliament for the Jhenaidah-4 constituency in 1988. Career Noor Uddin is the president of Jhenaidah District Jatiya Party. He was elected to parliament from Jhenaidah-4 constituency in as an independent candidate in 1988 Bangladeshi general election. He was defeated from Jhenaidah-4 Jhenaidah-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Anwarul Azim Anar of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Kaliganj Upazila and four union parishads of Jhe ... constituency as an independent candidate in the fifth parliamentary elections of 1991. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Jhenaidah District Politicians from Khulna Division Jatiya Party (Ershad) politicians 4th Jatiya Sangsad members {{Khulna-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahiduzzaman Beltu
Shahiduzzaman Beltu is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Jhenaidah-4 Jhenaidah-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Anwarul Azim Anar of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Kaliganj Upazila and four union parishads of Jhe .... Career Beltu was elected to parliament from Jhenaidah-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1991, 1996, and 2001. In 2005, he headed a subcommittee of the parliamentary standing committee on LGRD ministry affairs, that investigated former acting chief engineer Fariduddin Ahmed of the Department of Public Health Engineering. In 2008, he was expelled from Bangladesh Nationalist Party. References External links * * * * Living people People from Jhenaidah District Politicians from Khulna Division Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 5th Jatiya Sangsad members 6th Jatiya Sangsad members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdus Sattar (Jhenaidah Politician)
Abdus Sawar is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and a former member of parliament for Jhenaidah-4 Jhenaidah-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Anwarul Azim Anar of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Kaliganj Upazila and four union parishads of Jhe .... Career Sawar was elected to parliament from Jhenaidah-4 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986. References Jatiya Party politicians Living people 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Mannan (Bangladeshi Politician, Born 1952)
Abdul Mannan (12 March 1952 – 13 July 2021) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former member of parliament for Jhenaidah-4 Jhenaidah-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Anwarul Azim Anar of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Kaliganj Upazila and four union parishads of Jhe .... Birth and early life Abdul Mannan was born Jhenaidah District in 1952. Career Mannan was elected to parliament from Jhenaidah-4 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2008. He is the president of the Kaliganj Upazila unit of the Bangladesh Awami League. References 1952 births 2021 deaths People from Jhenaidah District Politicians from Khulna Division Awami League politicians 9th Jatiya Sangsad members {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaliganj Upazila, Jhenaidah
Kaliganj ( bn, কালীগঞ্জ) is an upazila of Jhenaidah District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. One of the most important commercial area is Kaliganj under Khulna Division. It crosses between Dhaka Khulna Highway. It has the myth of Gazi Kalu Champabati, Historical mosques of Barobazar, the largest banyan tree in Asia & the flow of Chitra & Begobati. It is bounded by Jhenaidah sadar on the north,Jessore district on the south, Kotchandpur Upazilla in west and Magura district at east. Geography Bethuli, Kaliganj is located at . It has 38,339 households and a total area of 310.16 km2. Main rivers are Chittra, Bhairab,Begabati. Demographics According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Kaliganj had a population of 282,366. Males constituted 50.04% of the population and females 49.96%. Muslims formed 82.74% of the population, Hindus 16.00%, Christians 1.23% and others 0.03%. Kaliganj had a literacy rate of 51.97% for the population 7 years and above. As of the 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League, the National Awami Party (Muzaffar) and the Workers Party of Bangladesh. The result was a victory for the Jatiya Party, which won 251 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 52.5%. Background In 1982 a coup d'état led by Army Chief Hussain Muhammad Ershad overthrew democratically elected President Abdus Sattar. Parliament was dissolved and all political parties were banned. Ershad assumed the presidency in December 1983, promising to hold presidential elections in May 1984 and to restore parliamentary government the following year. However, neither elections were held until 1986. Amid increasing opposition from the general public, Ershad aimed to legitimise his regime by holding a referendum in Ma ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
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