Naogaon-6
Naogaon-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since October 2020 by Anwar Hossain Helal of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Atrai Upazila, Atrai and Raninagar Upazila, Raninagar upazilas. History The constituency was created in 1984 from the Rajshahi-9 constituency when the former Rajshahi District was split into four districts: Chapai Nawabganj District, Nawabganj, Naogaon District, Naogaon, Rajshahi District, Rajshahi, and Natore District, Natore. Members of Parliament Elections Elections in the 2010s Israfil Alam was re-elected unopposed in the 2014 Bangladeshi general election, 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 Naogaon District {{Banglade ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anwar Hossain Helal
Anwar Hossain Helal is a politician from Naogaon District of Bangladesh. He was elected a member of parliament from Naogaon-6 in Oct 2020 by-election. He bagged 1,05,467 votes while BNP nominated candidate Sheikh Rezaul Islam got 4, 517 votes. Birth and early life Anowar Hossain Helal was born on 12 July 1964 in Raninagar, Naogaon. His father is Azim Uddin Sardar. Anowar Hossain Helal has been nominated by the ruling Awami League in the by-election of Naogaon-6 (Raninagar-Atrai) constituency. He was the chairman of Raninagar Upazila Parishad. After receiving the nomination of Awami League, he resigned from the post of chairman. Helal was elected UP chairman once and chairman of the Upazila Parishad twice in his political career. He has been the vice president of Upazila Awami League since 2014. On 19 June 2000, his younger brother Nazrul Islam Naju, then president of Raninagar Upazila Chhatra League, was brutally slaughtered by the proletariat. Career Anowar Hossain Helal is ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alamgir Kabir (politician)
Alamgir Kabir (born 1 January 1948) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Naogaon-6 constituency. He also served as the state minister of Housing and Public Works and Women and Children Affairs. Career Kabir was elected to parliament from Naogaon-6 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1991, 1996, 1996, and 2001. In 2007, he was sued for patronizing Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, an Islamist terror organisation. He was nominated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to contest the 11th Jatiya Sangshad elections from Naogaon. In March 2014, ACC ACC most often refers to: * Atlantic Coast Conference, an NCAA Division I collegiate athletic conference located in the US *American College of Cardiology, A US-based nonprofit medical association that bestows credentials upon cardiovascular spec ... sued Kabir for corruption charges. References Living people 1948 births Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Israfil Alam
Israfil Alam (13 March 1966 – 27 July 2020) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a 3-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Naogaon-6 constituency. Career Alam at one point worked as a meter reader for the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company. He was elected to the parliament from Naogaon-6 in 2008 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. Alam after being elected was accused of supporting labor unrest in Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company and trying to establish supremacy of Titas Gas Sramik League, the pro-Awami League labour body of the company. He was the chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the Labour and Employment Ministry. He was chairman of board of trustees in Atish Dipankar University of Science and Technology. Death Alam died from COVID-19 complications at Square Hospital in Dhaka on 27 July 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. References 1966 births 2020 deaths People from Naogaon District ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ohidur Rahman
Ohidur Rahman ( bn, ওহিদুর রহমান) is a Bangladeshi Communist political leader, freedom fighter and writer. He was the former Member of Parliament of Naogaon-6. Early life and education Ohidur Rahman was born in 1943, into a Bengali Muslim family in Atrai, Naogaon, Rajshahi District, Bengal Presidency. He completed his education at the University of Rajshahi where he studied political science, and was associated with the Writers Students League. Career Prior to Bangladesh's independence, Ohidur Rahman had been a part of Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani's National Awami Party and Purbo Banglar Communist Party. He was During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, he set up resistances in 9 areas across Rajshahi. After the Independence of Bangladesh, he became the leader of the Communist Party of Bangladesh's Atrai branch and later the greater Rajshahi branch. Not long after, he was arrested after being injured in an armed brawl as part of a Naxalite uprising. He was ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mollah Rezaul Islam
Mullah Rezaul Islam is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and the former Member of Parliament of Naogaon-6. Career Islam was elected to parliament from Naogaon-6 in 1988. References Jatiya Party politicians Living people 4th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) People from Naogaon District Politicians from Rajshahi Division {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mullah Rezaul Islam
Mullah Rezaul Islam is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and the former Member of Parliament of Naogaon-6 Naogaon-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since October 2020 by Anwar Hossain Helal of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Atrai Upazila, Atrai and Raninagar Upazila, .... Career Islam was elected to parliament from Naogaon-6 in 1988. References Jatiya Party politicians Living people 4th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) People from Naogaon District Politicians from Rajshahi Division {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Atrai Upazila
Atrai ( bn, আত্রাই) is the southernmost upazila of Naogaon District, located in Bangladesh's Rajshahi Division. It is named after its principal watercourse, the Atrai River. Geography Atrai has 30570 households and total area 284.41 km2. Along with the Atrai River, the Nagor River, Pakar Beel, Chander Beel, Kaklaban Beel are notable water bodies. History It is said that Islam Khan I, a Mughal Subahdar of Bengal, passed through Atrai (hence many villages have names such as Islampur and Islamganthi) and constructed a mosque known as the Islamganthi Mosque in the seventeenth century. Atrai later came under the zamindari of the Mollah political family. In 1916, Atrai was officially established as a thana. In 1968, the Mollah Azad Memorial College was founded in Atrai. During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, a brawl emerged between the two factions in Bandaikhara on 19 September. Another encounter took place near Ghaulya and Taranagar. In a surprise attack, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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]   |
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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]   |
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June 1996 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 12 June 1996. The result was a victory for the Bangladesh Awami League, which won 146 of the 300 seats, beginning Sheikh Hasina's first-term as Prime Minister. Voter turnout was 74.96%, the highest to date. This election was the second to be held in 1996, following controversial elections held in February a few months earlier. Electoral system In 1996, the 330 members of the Jatiya Sangsad consisted of 300 directly elected seats using first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies, and an additional 30 seats reserved for women. The reserved seats are distributed based on the election results. Each parliament sits for a five-year term. Background The June 1996 election marked the second general election to be held within only a four-month period. Previously in February, a general election had been held which was boycotted by all major opposition parties. The opposition were demanding the installation of a neutral caretake ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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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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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]   |