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Mymensingh-8
Mymensingh-8 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Mahmud Hasan Sumon Boundaries The constituency encompasses Ishwarganj Upazila Ishwarganj ( bn, ঈশ্বরগঞ্জ) is an upazila of the Mymensingh District in Bangladesh. History The seventeenth century was important to the development of Ishwarganj. The Bhulsoma Mosque was established in 1600 and 25 years after th .... History The constituency was created for the first general elections in newly independent Bangladesh, held in 1973. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Fakhrul Imam was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew their candidacies in a boycott of the election. Elections in the 2000s Elections in the 1990s References External links * Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh Mymensingh District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fakhrul Imam
Fakhrul Imam ( bn, ফখরুল ইমাম) is a Bangladeshi politician and former Member of Parliament from Mymensingh-8 Mymensingh-8 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Mahmud Hasan Sumon Boundaries The constituency encompasses Ishwarganj Upazila Ishwarganj ( bn, ঈশ্বরগঞ্জ) is .... He is also known as one of the most veteran parliamentarians in Bangladesh. Imam was elected to Parliament from Mymensingh-8 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1988, 2014 and re-elected on 30 December 2018. References Living people 4th Jatiya Sangsad members 10th Jatiya Sangsad members 11th Jatiya Sangsad members Jatiya Party politicians 1948 births {{Bangladesh-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zainul Abedin (politician)
Zainul Abedin (11 January 2014) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the ormer Member of Parliament of Mymensingh-4 and Mymensingh-8. Career Abedin was a lawyer and politician. he was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-4 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1979. He was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-8 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 15 February 1996 Bangladeshi general election. He was the president of Ishwarganj Upazila Ishwarganj ( bn, ঈশ্বরগঞ্জ) is an upazila of the Mymensingh District in Bangladesh. History The seventeenth century was important to the development of Ishwarganj. The Bhulsoma Mosque was established in 1600 and 25 years after th ... BNP. He joined the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on 26 October 2006 and served as a presidium member and president of the Mymensingh district LDP. Death Zainul Abedin died on 11 January 2014. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 1944 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hashim Uddin Ahmed
Hashim Uddin Ahmed is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and a former member of parliament for Mymensingh-8. Career In the early 1950s, Ahmed worked to remove Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from the post of general secretary of the Awami League. He was aided by Abdus Salam Khan Abdus Salam Khan (1906 – 29 February 1972) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a member of East Pakistan Provincial Assembly. Early life Khan was born in 1906 in Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India. He completed his underg ..., Khairat Hossain, and Almas Ali. Ahmed was a member of the East Pakistan Assembly in 1957. He was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-8 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] |
Mahmud Hasan Sumon
Mahmud Hasan Sumon is a Bangladeshi politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Mymensingh-8 Mymensingh-8 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2024 by Mahmud Hasan Sumon Boundaries The constituency encompasses Ishwarganj Upazila Ishwarganj ( bn, ঈশ্বরগঞ্জ) is ... constituency. References Living people Politicians from Mymensingh Division 12th Jatiya Sangsad members Place of birth missing (living people) Date of birth missing (living people) {{Bangladesh-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shah Nurul Kabir
Shah Nurul Kabir is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Mymensingh-8. Career Kabir was elected to parliament from Mymensingh-8 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001. He is the Convener of Ishwarganj Upazila Ishwarganj ( bn, ঈশ্বরগঞ্জ) is an upazila of the Mymensingh District in Bangladesh. History The seventeenth century was important to the development of Ishwarganj. The Bhulsoma Mosque was established in 1600 and 25 years after th ... unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. On 9 October 2018, he was arrested under Special Powers Act. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people 7th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khurram Khan Chowdhury
Khurram Khan Chowdhury (1945/6 – 17 July 2021) was a Bangladeshi politician who served four terms in parliament. Initially elected as a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), he resigned from the BNP, joined the Jatiya Party, and later returned to the BNP. Early life and family Khurram Khan Chowdhury was born into the Bengali Muslim ''Khan- Chowdhury'' family of Nandail in Mymensingh District. His father, Ashraf Hossain Khan Chowdhury, was the ''zamindar'' of Nandail, the former vice-president of the Central Muslim League and a cousin of former president Nurul Amin. His elder brother is Anwarul Hossain Khan Chowdhury and his sister-in-law, Begum Rahat, was the sister of former education minister ASHK Sadek and daughter of Yahya Sadeq, former joint-commissioner of the Bengal Legislative Assembly. Career Choudhury was a founding member of the Jatiya Party. He was elected member of parliament for Jatiya Party and BNP candidates at different times. Chowdhury le ... [...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] |
Ishwarganj Upazila
Ishwarganj ( bn, ঈশ্বরগঞ্জ) is an upazila of the Mymensingh District in Bangladesh. History The seventeenth century was important to the development of Ishwarganj. The Bhulsoma Mosque was established in 1600 and 25 years after that, the Naluapara Mosque was also constructed. In 1936, Pitalganj was established as a thana. It was renamed to Ishwarganj in honour of a patriotic boatman known as Ishwari Patni. During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, six Bengali freedom fighters were killed on 16 October in a face-off against the Pakistan Army. On 9 December, Ishwarganj was liberated. Ishwarganj was liberated on 9 December 1971. The thana was upgraded to an upazila in 1983. Geography Ishwarganj has a total area of 286.19 km2. It borders Gaurepur Upazila to the north, Nandail to the south, Kendowa to the east, and Trishal Upazila to the west. It is 147 km from Dhaka and 24 km from Mymensingh. The Kancha Matia River flow through the Upazila and m ... [...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] |
Rowshan Ershad
Roushan Ershad (born 19 July 1943) is a Jatiya Party (Ershad), Bangladesh Jatiya Party politician. She is the current Jatiya Sangsad member from Mymensingh-4 constituency and the incumbent Leader of the Opposition (Bangladesh), Leader of the Opposition in the 2018 Bangladeshi general election, 11th parliament. She is the Chief Patron of the Jatiya Party (Ershad) and the widow of former Bangladesh president Hussain Muhammad Ershad. Political Career As the First Lady during 1982–1990, Ershad was active in social welfare and in promoting the rights of women and children. She was the chief patron of the Bangladesh Jatiya Mohila Sangstha. In 1975, Ershad became the founder-president of the Sena Paribar Kalliyan Samity (Armed Forces Family Welfare Association). She attended the UN Special Convention on Drug Abuse in 1985. Personal life Roushan married Hussain Muhammad Ershad in 1956. Together they had a son, Saad Ershad, and also a daughter, Jebin. References External links [...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] |
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