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Kishoreganj-4
Kishoreganj-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2013 by Rejwan Ahmed Toufiq of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Austagram, Itna, and Mithamain upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from a Mymensingh constituency when the former Mymensingh District was split into four districts: Mymensingh, Sherpur, Netrokona, and Kishoreganj Kishoreganj is a city and the headquarters of Kishoreganj District Kishoreganj ( bn, কিশোরগঞ্জ) is a district in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. Earlier it was a Mohkuma (মহকুমা) under the Mymensingh district. It .... Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Rejwan Ahmed Toufiq was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. In April 2013, Abdul Hamid became President of Bangladesh, vacating his parliam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rejwan Ahmed Toufiq
Rejwan Ahammad Taufiq ( bn, রেজওয়ান আহাম্মদ তৌফিক; born 27 October 1969) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent member of parliament from Kishoreganj-4. Early life Taufiq was born on 27 October 1969. He has a B.S.S. degree. His father is President of Bangladesh Abdul Hamid ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحميد) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥamīd'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gave rise t .... Career Taufiq was elected to Parliament on 5 January 2014 from Kishoreganj-4 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. References Awami League politicians Living people 1969 births 10th Jatiya Sangsad members 11th Jatiya Sangsad members {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mizanul Haque
Mizanul Haque (died 27 August 2021) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician who served as Member of Parliament of Kishoreganj-4. Career Haque was elected to parliament from Kishoreganj-4 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1991 and June 1996. In 2005, he appeared in court wearing a funeral shroud. Death Haque died on 27 August 2021 at Shahid Syed Nazrul Islam Medical College in Kishoreganj Kishoreganj is a city and the headquarters of Kishoreganj District Kishoreganj ( bn, কিশোরগঞ্জ) is a district in Dhaka Division, Bangladesh. Earlier it was a Mohkuma (মহকুমা) under the Mymensingh district. It ..., Bangladesh. References 1945 births 2021 deaths People from Kishoreganj District Awami League politicians 5th Jatiya Sangsad members 7th Jatiya Sangsad members {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osman Faruk
Osman Faruk is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former minister of education of Bangladesh. He served as a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Kishoreganj-4 constituency. Career In 2016, he was investigated for war crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War. He has denied involvement in war crimes. He is an adviser to the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia Khaleda Zia (; born Khaleda Khanam Putul in 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996, and again from June 2001 to October 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Ba .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Faruk, Osman Living people People from Kishoreganj District Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Education ministers of Bangladesh 8th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) St. Gregory's High School and College alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mujibul Haque
Md Mujibul Haque Chunnu (born 1 September 1953) is a Jatiya Party politician and the current Secretary General of the party. He is the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Kishoreganj-3 constituency since 2009. He served as the State Minister of Labour and Employment during 2014–2019. Early life Haque was born on 1 September 1953 to Abdul Malek and Harunnessa in Kajala Madhyapara, Tarail Upazila, Kishoreganj District, East Bengal, Pakistan. He completed his SSC in 1970 and HSC in 1972. He was a member of the Mukti Bahini and fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war in Sector-11. In 1980, he graduated from the University of Dhaka with a law degree and a master's degree in 1981. Career Haque was elected president of the Kishoreganj District unit of Jatiya Party. He was elected to parliament as a candidate of Jatiya Party from Kishoreganj-4 in 1986. He was re-elected in 1988. From August 1987 to 1988, he served as the Deputy Minister of Land. He was elected to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabira Uddina Ahmed
Kabira Uddina Ahmed is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a Member of Parliament from Kishoreganj-4 Kishoreganj-4 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2013 by Rejwan Ahmed Toufiq of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Austagram, Itna, and Mithamain upazilas. .... Career Ahmed was elected to parliament from Kishoreganj-4 as an Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in February 1996. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Year of birth missing (living people) 6th Jatiya Sangsad members {{Dhaka-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itna Upazila
Itna ( bn, ইটনা) is an upazila of Kishoreganj District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. History In 1864, a police outpost was founded in the village of Badla, 6 km west of Itna Sadar. This outpost was disestablished on 15 June 1906 following the gazette notification 6676 which announced that a full-fledged thana (police station) would be established in Itna. Khwaja Hafizullah, founder of the Dhaka Nawab family, purchased some land in Itna Pargana. During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, a number of people were killed in the village of Boira in Joysiddhi Union. Geography Itna is located at . It has 23943 households and total area 401.94 km2. Economy and tourism There are many local mysteries about the construction of Itna Madhyagram Jame Masjid, which has gained the status of ''gayebi masjid'' and made it a place of attraction. The dargah of the five pirs in Mirdhahati as well as the Badshahi Mosque are also popular places in Itna. Demographics As o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mithamain Upazila
Mithamoin ( bn, মিঠামইন, Mithamoin) is an upazila (subdistrict) of Kishoreganj District in northern Bangladesh, located in the Dhaka Division. It is best known as the home upazila of Abdul Hamid, the current President of Bangladesh. Geography Mithamoin is located at . Mithamoin has 17,183 households and a total land area of 222.92 km2. History The area has been inhabited for centuries. The name of Mithamain can be found in James Rennell's 1781 map of Bengal. The upazila was named after the village of Mithamain. Its etymology is rumored to be that at one time there was a large reed forest in the vicinity of the area. The reed was sweet, and the name of the village came to Mithabon (মিঠাবন ''sweet forest'') which was corrupted to Mithamon and later Mithamain/Mithamoin in the local dialect. During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, 28 Bengalis were murdered in the village of Dhubajura and 3 in Telikhai on 1 November. Boira was a site of mass killing ... [...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] |
Fazlur Rahman
Fazal ur Rahman or variants may refer to the following people: Politicians *Fazal-ur-Rehman (politician) (born 1953), Pakistani Islamic fundamentalist politician *Fazlur Rehman Khalil (born 1963), Pakistani Islamist politician *Fazlur Rahman Malik (1919–1988), Pakistani Islamic scholar and political philosopher *Fazlur Rahman (politician) (1905–1966), Bengali politician and first Education Minister of Pakistan Cricketers *Fazal-ur-Rehman (cricketer, born 1935) *Fazal-ur-Rehman (cricketer, born 1995) Other poeple *Fazal ur Rehman (born 1943), Pakistani judge *Fazalur Rehman (bureaucrat), Chief Minister of Sindh 2018 *Fazlur Rahman Ansari (1914–1974), Pakistani Islamic scholar and philosopher *Fazlur Rahman Babu (born 1960), Bangladeshi actor and singer *Fazlur Rahman Faridi (1932–2011), Indian writer on Islam and contemporary Issues *Fazlur Rahman Khan Fazlur Rahman Khan ( bn, ফজলুর রহমান খান, ''Fozlur Rôhman Khan''; 3 April 1929 ... [...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] |
Abdul Hamid (politician)
ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحميد) is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥamīd'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gave rise to the Muslim theophoric names. It means "servant of the All-laudable". It is rendered as ''Abdolhamid'' in Persian and ''Abdülhamit'' in Turkish. It may refer to: Given name *Abd al-Hamid al-Katib (died 749), Umayyad official and Islamic scholar * 'Abd al-Hamīd ibn Turk (fl. 830), Turkish Muslim mathematician *Abdul Hamid Lahori (died 1654), Indian traveller and court historian of Shah Jahan *Abdul Hamid Baba (died c.1732), Pashtun poet *Abdul Hamid I (1725–1789), sultan of the Ottoman Empire *Abdul Hamid (surveyor) (died ?1864), surveyor in Central Asia *Abdul Hamid II (1842–1918), sultan of the Ottoman Empire *Abdul Hamid Halim of Kedah (1864–1943), Sultan of Kedah *Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (1880–1976), political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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