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Noakhali-3
Noakhali-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Mamunur Rashid Kiron of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Begumganj 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 Mamunur Rashid Kiron was elected unopposed in the 2014 general election after opposition parties withdrew thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barkat Ullah Bulu
Barkat Ullah Bulu (born 20 December 1956) is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Noakhali-2 and Noakhali-3 constituencies in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th parliament. He served as the state minister of commerce during 2001–2003. Career Bulu was elected to parliament from Noakhali-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and one of the major ... (BNP) candidate in 2008. He is the Joint Secretary General and Vice-Chairman of BNP. References Living people 1956 births Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 5th Jatiya Sangsad members 6th Jatiya Sangsad members 7th Jatiya Sangsad members 9th Jatiya Sangsad members Place of birth missing (living people) People from Begumganj Upazila Politici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Begumganj Upazila
Begumganj ( bn, বেগমগঞ্জ, Begomgonj) is an upazila of the Noakhali District in Bangladesh's Chittagong Division. Begumganj Thana, now an upazila, was established in 1892. Geography Begumganj is located at . It has 118361 households and total area 426.05 km2. It is considered to be a very poorly-drained area of the Old Meghna Estuarine Floodplain along with Laksam Upazila. History During the Mughal period, a mosque was established in Chowdhury Bari, Gopalpur which still stands today. On 7 November 1946, Begumganj was visited by Mohandas Gandhi to suppress the Noakhali riots. Begumganj suffered from tidal bore on 12 November 1970 as part of the 1970 Bhola cyclone. During the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, the Noakhali Company led by Subedar Lutfur Rahman was based in Begumganj. Bengali freedom fighters brawled with the Pakistan Army at Aminbazar Point on Chaumuhani-Lakshmipur road on 25 April. The freedom fighters launched an attack on a Razakar Camp loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmudur Rahman Belayet
Mahmudur Rahman Belayet was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a member of parliament for Noakhali-3 Noakhali-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Mamunur Rashid Kiron of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Begumganj Upazila. History The constituency w .... Career Belayet was elected to parliament from Noakhali-3 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986 and 1988. He is a former president of the Noakhali District unit of the Bangladesh Awami League. References Jatiya Party politicians 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing 1945 births 2023 deaths People from Noakhali District {{JatiyaParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salah Uddin Kamran
Salah Uddin Kamran is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Noakhali-3 Noakhali-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Mamunur Rashid Kiron of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Begumganj Upazila. History The constituency w .... Career Kamran was elected to parliament from Noakhali-3 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1991. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians Living people 5th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mamunur Rashid Kiron
Md. Mamunur Rashid Kiron ( bn, মোঃ মামুনুর রশীদ কিরন) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Member of Parliament from Noakhali-3 Noakhali-3 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Mamunur Rashid Kiron of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Begumganj Upazila. History The constituency w .... He is one of the Director of Globe Pharmaceuticals group of companies Ltd.He is a loan defaulter and doesn't pay his employees wage in time.He has also took money of mosque to pay off his own loan.His son zihan Al Rashid is a renowned rowdy in Begumganj Early life Kiron was born on 20 April 1961. He has B.A. degree. Career Kiron was elected to Parliament on 5 January 2014 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. He is a Member of the Treasury Bench of the Parliament. References Awami League politicians Living people 1961 births 10th Jatiya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahbubur Rahman (politician)
Mahbubur Rahman (5 January 1940 – 27 March 2021) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. Career Rahman was a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He was a member of Jatiyo Sangshad, parliament for Noakhali-3 constituency. He served as 4 time MP and 9 years as Minister in 9 Ministries including Education Minister under Hussain Muhammad Ershad cabinet from 1986 to 1988. He switched from Bangladesh Nationalist Party to Jatiya Party (Ershad) in 2008. Rahman is the vice-chairperson of Bangladesh Foreign Trade Institute. Rahman died of COVID-19 in 2021. Personal life Rahman had 4 sons and 2 daughters. His daughter Farah Mahbub (judge), Farah Mahbub has followed him into law, and eventually she became justice of Dhaka High Court. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rahman, Mahbubur 1940 births 2021 deaths People from Chatkhil Upazila Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 8th Jatiya Sangsad members Jatiya Party politicians Education ministers of Bangladesh Religious a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Bangladeshi General Election
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 3 March 1988. They were boycotted by several major parties, including the Bangladesh Awami League, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the Communist Party of Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League, the National Awami Party (Muzaffar) and the Workers Party of Bangladesh. The result was a victory for the Jatiya Party, which won 251 of the 300 seats. Voter turnout was 52.5%. Background In 1982 a coup d'état led by Army Chief Hussain Muhammad Ershad overthrew democratically elected President Abdus Sattar. Parliament was dissolved and all political parties were banned. Ershad assumed the presidency in December 1983, promising to hold presidential elections in May 1984 and to restore parliamentary government the following year. However, neither elections were held until 1986. Amid increasing opposition from the general public, Ershad aimed to legitimise his regime by holding a referendum in Ma ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
Bangladesh Nationalist Party
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and one of the major political parties of Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by former Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman after the Presidential election of 1978, with a view of uniting the people with a nationalist ideology. Since then, the BNP won the second, fifth, sixth and eighth national elections and two Presidential elections in 1978 and 1981. The party also holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country, with 116 seats in the seventh national election of June 1996. It has currently 7 MPs in parliament after 2018 general election. Although the party was initially founded on a nationalistic principle, many of its leaders want an Islamic government and its main supporters are Islam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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