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Sirajganj-1
Sirajganj-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Mohammed Nasim of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Kazipur Upazila and five union parishads of Sirajganj Sadar Upazila: Baghbati, Bahuli, Mechhra, Ratankandi, and Chhangachha. History The constituency was created in 1984 from a Pabna constituency when the former Pabna District was split into two districts: Sirajganj and Pabna. 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 populatio .... The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency. Ahead of the 2018 general electio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammed Nasim
Mohammed Nasim (2 April 1948 – 13 June 2020) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician who served as the Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Health and Family Welfare for the Government of Bangladesh respectively during 1999–2001 and 2014–2019. He was a 6-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Sirajganj-1 and Sirajganj-2 constituencies. He was a presidium member of Awami League and the spokesperson of the 14-party alliance. Early life Nasim was born on 2 April 1948, to a Bengali Muslim family of Sarkars hailing from Kuripara in Qazipur, Sirajganj (then under Pabna District), Bengal Presidency. His parents were Muhammad Mansur Ali and Amena Monsur. Ali served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Bangladesh in 1975 and was one of the four leaders killed in the Dhaka Central Jail as a part of the coup d'état on 7 November 1975. He studied at Edward College in Pabna. He was a leader of Chhatra Union, the student wing of Communist Party. In 1966, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman wen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanvir Shakil Joy
Tanvir Shakil Joy (born 1 August 1976) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Sirajganj-1 constituency. Career In April 2007, illegal VoIP equipment allegedly owned by Joy were seized by Rapid Action Battalion from a house in Bashabo, Dhaka. Joy was elected to Parliament in 2008 from Sirajganj-1 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. In 2016, he was one of the organiser of a rally of Bangladeshi students protesting Islamic extremism. After the death of Mohammed Nasim, his father, on 13 June 2020 Joy was elected as a Jatiya Sangsad member of the vacant seat in the by-election held on 12 Nov 2020. Personal life Joy's father, Mohammed Nasim, was an Awami League politician and former government minister. His grandfather was Captain Muhammad Mansur Ali Muhammad Mansur Ali (16 January 1917 – 3 November 1975) was a Bangladeshi politician who was a close confidant of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader of Bangladesh. A se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Salim (politician)
Mohammad Selim (1940 – 20 January 2015) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member from Sirajganj-1 constituency. Early life and family Selim was born in 1940 to a Bengali Muslim family of Sarkars hailing from Kuripara in Qazipur, Sirajganj (then under Pabna District), Bengal Presidency. Selim's father was Captain M Mansur Ali, a key figure of Bangladeshi independence and a former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. His brother is the former Health Minister Mohammed Nasim Mohammed Nasim (2 April 1948 – 13 June 2020) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician who served as the Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Health and Family Welfare for the Government of Bangladesh respectively during 1999–2001 and 201 .... Career Selim was elected to Parliament in 1996 from Sirajganj-1 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate. He was an advisory and presidium member of Bangladesh Awami League. References 1940s births 2015 deaths Awami League pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shafiqul Islam (Sirajganj Politician)
Shafiqul Islam is a politician from Sirajganj District of Bangladesh. He was elected a member of parliament from Sirajganj-1 in 1988 Bangladeshi general election. Career Shafiqul Islam was elected a Member of Parliament from Sirajganj-1 constituency as an independent candidate in the 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 .... References Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Sirajganj District Jatiya Party (Ershad) politicians 4th Jatiya Sangsad members {{Bangladesh-bio-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] |
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] |
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] |
Sirajganj-2
Sirajganj-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2014 by Md. Habibe Millat of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Kamarkhanda Upazila, Sirajganj Municipality, and five union parishads of Sirajganj Sadar Upazila: Kalia Haripur, Kaoakola, Khoksabari, Saidabad, and Shialkul. History The constituency was created in 1984 from a Pabna constituency when the former Pabna District was split into two districts: Sirajganj and Pabna. Ahead of the 2008 general election, the Election Commission redrew constituency boundaries to reflect population changes revealed by the 2001 Bangladesh census. The 2008 redistricting altered the boundaries of the constituency. Ahead of the 2018 general election, the Election Commission reduced the boundaries of the constituency by removing one union parishad of Sirajganj Sadar Upazila Sirajganj Sadar ( bn, সিরাজগঞ্জ সদর) is an upazila of Sirajganj Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanvir S
Tanvir (also spelled Tanbhir, Tanbheer, Tanveer, Tanweer, or Tanwir) ( ar, تنوير, romanised: ; Pashto/Persian/Urdu: , romanised: ; bn, তানভীর, romanised: ) is a unisex given name and surname, derived from Arabic meaning 'enlightenment', also derived from Hindi and Punjabi languages in India meaning 'strong in body, brave from body'. Notable people with this given name *Tanveer Ahmed (boxer), Pakistani boxer * Tanveer Ahmed (footballer), Pakistani footballer *Tanveer Ahmed (psychiatrist), Bangladeshi-Australian psychiatrist and journalist *Tanvir Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer * Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed, Pakistan Air Force officer *Tanveer Ghani, British actor *Tanvir Gill, a news anchor at CNBC *Tanveer Haider, Bangladeshi cricketer *Rana Tanveer Hussain, former Minister in Pakistan *Tanvir Hussain, English terrorist convicted for the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot *Tanvir Islam, Bangladeshi scientist *Tanveer Ashraf Kaira, Politician *Tanvir Ahmad Khan, Pakistan Air For ... [...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] |
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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