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Mymensingh-7
Mymensingh-7 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by independent ABM Anisuzzaman. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Trishal 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 In 2001, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics conducted a national census in Bangladesh, ten years after the 1991 census. They recorded data from all of the districts, upazilas, and main cities in Bangladesh including statistical data on populati .... The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruhul Amin Madani
Mohammad Hafez Ruhul Amin Madani ( bn, মোঃ হাফেজ রুহুল আমিন মাদানী; born 10 May 1971) is a Bangladeshi politician and the incumbent Member of Bangladesh Parliament from Mymensingh-7 Mymensingh-7 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by independent politician, independent ABM Anisuzzaman. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Trishal Upazila. History The cons .... Career Madani was elected to Parliament from Mymensingh-7 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate on 30 December 2018. He is a member of the standing committee of Ministry of Religious Affairs. References Living people 11th Jatiya Sangsad members Awami League politicians 1971 births 20th-century Bengalis 21st-century Bengalis {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ABM Anisuzzaman
ABM Anisuzzaman is a Bangladeshi politician and a former member of Jatiya Sangsad representing the Mymensingh-7 constituency. Political life Anisuzzaman was elected member of parliament from the Mymensingh-7 constituency as a candidate of Bangladesh independent politician in the seventh national parliament election on 24 January 2024. References Living people 12th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{Mymensingh-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anisur Rahman (Bangladeshi Politician)
Anisur Rahman is a Bangladeshi politician of the Jatiya Party (Ershad) and a former member of parliament for undivided Mymensingh-6 and Mymensingh-7. He was an organizer of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Career Anisur Rahman was elected to parliament from undivided Mymensingh-6 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973. He was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-7 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1988. He was the organizer of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. He lost the 5th Jatiya Sangsad elections of 1991 from the Mymensingh-7 Mymensingh-7 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by independent politician, independent ABM Anisuzzaman. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Trishal Upazila. History The cons ... constituency with the nomination of Jatiya Party. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Jatiya Party politicians Awami League politicians 1st Jatiya Sangsad me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reza Ali
Reza Ali ( bn, রেজা আলী; 10 April 1940 – 13 February 2023) was a Bangladeshi politician, businessman and lawyer. He served as a member of the Jatiya Sangsad, representing the Awami League in the Mymensingh-7 constituency from 2009 to 2014. Early life Ali was born on 10 April 1940 to Tafazzal Ali and Sarah Khatun Chowdhury in his maternal home in Sylhet. His father became the Minister for Health of the East Pakistan government in 1947 and later the Minister of Revenue. He then became the minister of commerce of the-then Pakistan central government. Later, he became the Ambassador of Pakistan to Egypt. Career Ali was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-7 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2008. Ali was an entrepreneur, having pioneered the advertising industry in Bangladesh & also one of the first to enter Bangladesh's garment manufacturing and export business. Personal life and death Ali died in Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mizanur Rahman (politician)
Mizanur Rahman is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament of Mymensingh-7. Career Rahman was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-7 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1973. References Awami League politicians Living people 1st Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) People from Mymensingh District Politicians from Mymensingh Division {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Matin Sarkar
Abdul Matin Sarkar is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the former Member of Parliament of Mymensingh-7 Mymensingh-7 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by independent ABM Anisuzzaman. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Trishal Upazila. History The constituency was created f .... Career Sarkar was a member of Mukti Bahini and fought in the Bangladesh Liberation war. In 1973, he was the vice-president of Trishal Nazrul Degree College Chhttra League. In 1990, he was elected Chairman of Trishal upazila. He was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-7 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2001. References Awami League politicians Living people 8th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdus Salam Tarafdar
Abdus Salam Tarafdar is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former member of parliament for Mymensingh-7 Mymensingh-7 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by independent politician, independent ABM Anisuzzaman. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Trishal Upazila. History The cons .... Career Tarafdar was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-7 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 1986. References Awami League politicians Living people 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{AwamiLeague-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] |
Mahbub Anam
Mahbub Anam (March 28, 1931 – July 9, 2001) was a Bangladeshi journalist and writer. He was the editor of The Bangladesh Times. Early life Anam's father Abul Mansur Ahmed was a satirist and politician of Bengal. His younger brother Mahfuz Anam is the editor of The Daily Star. Anam was actively involved in politics from his student life. He was the general secretary of Salimullah Muslim Hall of Dhaka University in 1954-55 and was appointed acting publications secretary of the Jukta Front on behalf of the Awami League in 1954. Career Anam also served as the general manager of Jamuna Oil Company and the director of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation. Anam served as the president of the ''Nattyamancho Bangladesh'' and ''Bangladesh Sahitya Sangskriti Kendro'' and was involved with Bangladesh Film Censor Board and Bangladesh Public Library Special Committee. He was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-7 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 15 February 1996 Bangladeshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 League. The current chairman of the party is Ghulam Muhammad Quader. On 3 January 2019, the party announced its decision to join the Bangladesh Awami League-led Grand Alliance after having been in opposition for the previous parliamentary term. However, the party backtracked the next day and announced that it intended to remain part of the opposition. Currently, it holds Rangpur out of Bangladesh's 12 city corporations. History The party was established by a retired army officer, Hussain Mohammad Ershad on 1 January 1986. He was the Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh Army. He had seized power through a coup d'état on 24 March 1982. He ruled the country as chief martial law administrator till December 1983. Politics was banned durin ... [...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] |
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] |
