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Meherpur-1
Meherpur-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Farhad Hossain of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Meherpur Sadar and Mujibnagar upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from the Kushtia-5 constituency when the former Kushtia District was split into three districts: Meherpur, Kushtia, and Chuadanga Chuadanga ( bn, চুয়াডাঙ্গা) is a prosperous city in the western part of Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous cou .... Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Ahmed Ali died in office. Abdul Mannan of the Awami League was elected in a May 1999 by-election. Elections in the 1990s References External links * Parli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farhad Hossain (politician)
Farhad Hossain (born 5 June 1972) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent State Minister of Public Administration and Jatiya Sangsad member from Meherpur-1 constituency. Background and early life Hossain was born on 5 June 1972 in Meherpur District. He completed his master's degree in English . His father, Saheehuddin Biswas, was named MNA (Member of the National Assembly) in 1970. In addition, he was elected MP of parliamentary constituency 73 Meherpur-1 in 1973 and 1986. In 1975 he was elected as the District Governor of Bakshal. He was one of the founders of greater Kushtia District Awami League. Career Hossain is the president of Meherpur District unit of Awami League. He was a lecturer at the Dhaka City College. Hossain was elected parliament member in 2014 from Meherpur-1 (Meherpur-Mujibnagar) as a candidate of the Awami League. He received 80,146 votes while independent candidate Md. Yeearul Islam received 13,919 votes. He was a member of the Parliamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Shahiduddin
Mohammad Sahiuddin Bishwas (1923-21 March 1990) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament of Meherpur-1. He was one of the organizers of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Early life Mohammad Sahiuddin was born on 1923. His father Md. Yakub Biswas and mother Samchun Nesha. He passed matriculation from VJ High School in Chuadanga district and got admission in Rajshahi Government College. His son Farhad Hossain is the State Minister for Public Administration and Member of Parliament from Meherpur-1 constituency. Career Sahiuddin was the founding president of Meherpur Awami League. In 1956 he was elected the first chairman of Meherpur municipality. He was elected Member of the National Assembly (MNA) as a nominee of the Bangladesh Awami League in the 1970 Pakistan National Assembly elections. He was one of the organizers of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. He served as a Member of Parliament in the Government of Bangladesh during the War of Lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramjan Ali
Ramjan Ali is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and the former Member of Parliament of Meherpur-1 Meherpur-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Farhad Hossain of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Meherpur Sadar and Mujibnagar upazilas. History Th .... Career Ali was elected to parliament from Meherpur-1 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1988. 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] |
Joynal Abedin (politician, Born 1954)
Joynal Abedin is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament of Meherpur-1. Career Abedin was elected to parliament from Meherpur-1 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2008. References Awami League politicians 9th Jatiya Sangsad members 1954 births Living people {{Khulna-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masud Arun
Masud Arun is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament from Meherpur-1. His father Ahammad Ali was an MP too. Career Arun was elected to Parliament from Meherpur-1 in 2001 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate. He was sued in 2008 for fraud and embezzlement. Personal life His brother, Maruf Ahmed Bijon, was the public prosecutor of Meherpur District Meherpur ( bn, মেহেরপুর, pron: ''meɦeɾpuɾ'') is the northwestern district of Khulna Division in southwestern Bangladesh. It is bordered by the Indian state of West Bengal to the west, and by the Bangladeshi districts of Kushtia a .... He was arrested in 2002 for ransacking a police post and assaulting the officer-in-charge. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Meherpur District Politicians from Khulna Division Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 8th Jatiya Sangsad members {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahammad Ali
Ahammad Ali was a Bangladeshi politician from Meherpur belonging to Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was elected three times as a member of the Jatiya Sangsad. His son Masud Arun is a former member of the Jatiya Sangsad. Biography Ali was elected as a member of the Jatiya Sangsad from Kushtia-1 in 1979. Later, he was elected from Meherpur-1 Meherpur-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Farhad Hossain of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Meherpur Sadar and Mujibnagar upazilas. History Th ... in the Sixth Jatiya Sangsad Election. He was also elected from this constituency in the Seventh Jatiya Sangsad Election. Ali died in 1999. References 1999 deaths People from Meherpur District Politicians from Khulna Division Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 2nd Jatiya Sangsad members 6th Jatiya Sangsad members 7th Jatiya Sangsad members 1935 births {{BangladeshN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Mannan (politician, Born 1944)
Abdul Mannan (born 23 September 1944; known as Professor Abdul Mannan) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former 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 B ... member from Meherpur-1 constituency during 1991–1996 and again, 1999–2001. References Living people 1944 births Awami League politicians 5th Jatiya Sangsad members Place of birth missing (living people) {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
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] |
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