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Magura-1
Magura-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Saifuzzaman Shikhor of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Sreepur Upazila, Magura Municipality, and nine union parishads of Magura Sadar Upazila: Atharakhada, Bagia, Chaulia, Hazrapur, Jagdal, Kasundi, Maghi, and Raghab Dair. History The constituency was created in 1984 from the Jessore-12 constituency when the former Jessore District was split into four districts: Jhenaidah, Jessore, Magura, and Narail Narail ( bn, নড়াইল, pron: ''nɔɽail'') is a district in south-western Bangladesh. It is a part of Khulna Division. History Narail town was named after a feudal lord (a zamindar). The zamindars established a market at Roopgonj, als .... Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Muhammad Serajul Akbar died in March 2015. ATM Abdul Wahab of the Awami League was elected in a May 2015 by-election. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ATM Abdul Wahab
A. T. M. Abdul Wahab ( bn, এ টি এম আব্দুল ওয়াহাব) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament from Magura-1. Early life Wahab was born on 29 December 1946. He fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war as the sub-sector commander of Sector Eight. Career Wahab retired from Bangladesh Army with the rank of major general. He wrote a book, ''Mukti Bahini Wins Victory: Military Oligarchy Divides Pakistan in 1971'', about the history of the Bangladesh Liberation war The Bangladesh Liberation War ( bn, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ, , also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh) was a revolution and War, armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Benga .... Wahab was elected to Parliament in 2015 from Magura-1 as a candidate of Bangladesh Awami League in a by-election. The by-election were called after the death of the incumbent Member of Parliament, Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saifuzzaman Shikhor
Shifuzzaman "Md." Shikhor (born 1 October 1971) is a Bangladeshi politician who in the former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Magura-1 constituency. He is connected to the politics of Bangladesh Awami League. His father was Mohammad Asaduzzaman, an MP of Magura-2 constituency and his sister Kamrul Laila Jolly was an MP of Jatiyo Sangsad. Early life Shifuzzaman Shikhor was born in Magura District, Bangladesh on 1 October 1971, . His father, Mohammad Asaduzzaman, served in the National Parliament as the representative for Magura-2 constituency. His mother Manowara Zaman was a homemaker. Shifuzzaman Shikhor is the third child out of five brothers and two sisters. He is in politics from his school days. After enrolling in college, he was nominated as sports secretary to the student parliament election of Magura. He was pursuing Honors and Masters in the Department of History at University of Rajshahi . He served as the Sher-e-Bangla Hall organizing secretary of the Banglades ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhammad Serajul Akbar
Muhammad Serajul Akbar (c. 1944 – 9 March 2015) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and Member of Parliament. Biography Akbar was born in 1944 in Magura District. In 1978 he joined Dhaka Shishu Hospital as its director. He joined the Bangladesh Institute of Child Health as a professor. In 1996 he was elected to parliament from Magura-1 on a Bangladesh Awami League nomination. He was re-elected to 2001. He was the President of Magura District unit Awami League. Akbar was re-elected to parliament in 2008 and 2014. He served as the President of Bangladesh Red Crescent Society. Death Mohammad Sirajul Akbar had died on 9 March 2015 in National Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Dhaka, Bangladesh 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 mos .... References Awami Leag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasan Siraj Suja
Hasan Siraj Suja is a Bangladeshi Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay. Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ... politician and lawyer. He is a politician of Jatiya Party. He is an Advisor to the chair of the Central Committee of Jatiya Party. He was a Joint Secretary General in the Central Committee of Jatiya Party. Besides, he is working as a vice president of Jatiyo Ainjibi Federation, lawyer wing of Jatiya Party. References Living people 21st-century Bangladeshi lawyers Jatiya Party politicians People from Magura District Politicians from Khulna Division Year of birth missing (living people) {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 30 December 2018 to elect 300 directly-elected members of the Jatiya Sangsad. The result was a landslide victory for the Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina. According to political scientist Ali Riaz, the elections were not free and fair. The BBC News reported that they were marred by violence and allegations of vote rigging. Opposition leader Kamal Hossain rejected the results, calling it "farcical" and demanding fresh elections to be held under a neutral government. The Bangladesh Election Commission said it would investigate reported vote-rigging allegations from "across the country." The election saw the use of electronic voting machines for the first time. Electoral system The 350 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consist of 300 directly elected seats using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and an additional 50 seats reserved for women. The reserved seats are distributed based on the proportional vote share o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magura District
Magura ( bn, মাগুরা) is a district in south-western Bangladesh, situated 176 kilometers from Dhaka. It is a part of Khulna Division. The main mode of transportation is by bus, and no train transport is available. Administration Magura district has 4 upazilas. They are: #Magura Sadar Upazila #Mohammadpur Upazila # Shalikha Upazila #Sreepur Upazila Geography Magura District (Khulna Division) with an area of 1048 km2, is bounded by Rajbari district to the north, Jessore and Narail districts to the south, Faridpur district to the east and Jhenaidah district to the west. The district is flat plain in the heart of the Ganges Delta. Climate Demographics According to the 2011 Bangladesh census, Magura District had a population of 918,419, of which 454,739 were males and 463,380 females. Rural population was 798,005 (86.89%) and urban population was 120,414 (13.11%). Magura had a literacy rate of 50.24% for the population 7 years and above: 52.87% for males and ... [...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] |
Majid-ul-Haq
Major General Majid-ul-Haq (1926 - 25 March 2013) was a Bangladeshi Army officer and a minister of the Government of Bangladesh. Early life Haq was born in Magura in 1926. He grew up in Delhi where his father was working in the Indian Central Government. After completing his schooling from Raisina Bengali High School, he went on to do his Intermediate at the Hindu College. He then enrolled in BA (Honours) in English at the same college. However, the death of his father forced him to rethink his career and he switched to engineering at the Bengal College of Engineering, Shibpur. In 1946, he joined the British Indian Army and underwent training at the Indian Military Academy. In 1947, he was transferred to Pakistan and commissioned as a Regular Officer in the Pakistan Army, subsequently joining the Corps of Engineers. He had various field and staff postings in both East and West Pakistan: Sialkot, Mardan, Risalpur, Kashmir, Rawalpindi, Dhaka, Quetta, Karachi and the Karakoram He ... [...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] |
2008 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 29 December 2008. The two main parties in the election were the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), led by Khaleda Zia, and the Bangladesh Awami League Party, led by Sheikh Hasina. The Bangladesh Awami League Party formed a fourteen-party Grand Alliance including Ershad's Jatiya Party, while the BNP formed a four-party alliance which included the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami. The election was originally scheduled for January 2007, but it was postponed by a military-controlled caretaker government for an extended period of time. The elections resulted in a landslide victory for the Awami League-led grand alliance, which won 263 seats out 300. The main rival four-party alliance received only 32 seats, with the remaining four going to independent candidates. Polling in the constituency of Noakhali-1 was postponed due to the mysterious death of the AL candidate. The election for the seat was held on 12 January 2009 instead and was w ... [...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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