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Sirajganj-6
Sirajganj-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2021 by Merina Jahan Kabita of the Awami League. Boundaries Sirajganj-6 constituency consists of Shahjadpur Upazila of Sirajganj district. Members of Parliament References External links * {{Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh Parliamentary constituencies in Bangladesh Sirajganj District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manzur Quader
Manzur Quader is a Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi politician, retired major of Bangladesh Army, former minister of state and the former Member of Parliament of Pabna-1 and Sirajganj-6. Career Quader was elected to parliament from Pabna-1 as a Jatiya Party (Ershad), Jatiya Party candidate in 1986 and 1988. He was elected a member of parliament from Pabna-1 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in February 1996 Bangladeshi general election. He was the Minister of State for Water Development from 3 March 1986 to 4 December 1990. He was elected a member of parliament from Sirajganj-6 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 2001 Bangladeshi general election. He was defeated by participating in the national elections of the 1991 Bangladeshi general election from Pabna-1 as a Jatiya Party (Ershad), Jatiya Party candidate. He was defeated by participating in the national elections of the June 1996 Bangladeshi general election, 12 June 1996 Bangladeshi general election from P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merina Jahan Kabita
Merina Jahan Kabita is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Sirajganj-6 constituency. Career Merina has been involved in Awami League politics since the beginning of her political career. She is the daughter of academic and intellectual Mazharul Islam. She was inspired to join Awami League as her father was involved in Awami League politics. Kabita became a member of the Awami League Central Executive Committee through the national conference of Awami League held in 2016. She also held the same post in the 2019 conference. The SIrajganj-6 constituency fell vacant after Awami League lawmaker Hashibur Rahman Swapon died of coronavirus on September 2. In October 2021, she was nominated by-election candidate by Awami League in Sirajganj-6 constituency. Awami League nominee Marina Jahan was elected in the by-election held on November 2, 2021. Early life In early life, after obtaining degree in Sociology from University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hashibur Rahman Swapon
Hashibur Rahman Swapon (16 May 1954 – 2 September 2021) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician who served as Jatiya Sangsad member from the Sirajganj-6 and Sirajganj-7 constituencies. Early life and education Swapon was born on 16 June 1954, in Dwariyapur in Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj district. Swapon had studied up to H.S.C. or grade 12. Career Swapon was first elected to Jatiya Sangsad as a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party representing the now-defunct Sirajganj-7 constituency. He lost the position when he switched to Awami League party in 1998. Swapon was later elected to the parliament from Sirajganj-6 on 5 January 2014 as an Awami League candidate. He was warned on 24 December 2015 by Bangladesh Election Commission for violating the electoral code. He was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food Ministry. Death Swapon died from COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choyon Islam
Choyon Islam (born 16 November 1961) is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former 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 B ... member representing the Sirajganj-6 constituency. Career Choyon Islam was elected to parliament from Sirajganj-6 as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate in 2008. He was made a member of the Parliament standing committee on Jute and Textile Ministry. References Living people 1961 births Awami League politicians 7th Jatiya Sangsad members 9th Jatiya Sangsad members Place of birth missing (living people) {{AwamiLeague-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ansar Ali Siddiki
Ansar Ali Siddiqui was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Sirajganj-6 Sirajganj-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2021 by Merina Jahan Kabita of the Awami League. Boundaries Sirajganj-6 constituency consists of Shahjadpur Upazila of Sirajganj district. .... Career Siddiqui was elected to parliament from Sirajganj-6 as a Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in 1991. He served as the state minister for Irrigation, Water Development and Flood Control. Death Siddiqui died on 16 April 2013 in BIRDEM hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. References Bangladesh Nationalist Party politicians 2013 deaths 5th Jatiya Sangsad members 6th Jatiya Sangsad members Water Resources ministers {{BangladeshNationalistParty-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nurul Islam Talukder (politician)
Nurul Islam Talukder () is a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and the former Member of Parliament of Sirajganj-6 Sirajganj-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2021 by Merina Jahan Kabita of the Awami League. Boundaries Sirajganj-6 constituency consists of Shahjadpur Upazila of Sirajganj district. .... Career Talukder was elected to parliament from Sirajganj-6 as a Jatiya Party candidate in 1986 and 1988. References Jatiya Party politicians Living people 3rd Jatiya Sangsad members 4th Jatiya Sangsad members Year of birth missing (living people) {{Rajshahi-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahjadpur Upazila
Shahjadpur ( bn, শাহজাদপুর) is an upazila or sub-district of Sirajganj District in Rajshahi Division of Bangladesh. History Shah Daulah Shahid, Makhdum Shah Daulah Shahid was a Fourteenth Century Muslim saint recognized for his preaching of Islam in northern India. He was martyred at Shahjadpur. Makhdum Shah was the second son of Muaz bin Jabal, a king of Yemen. Together with some twenty companions, he travelled east by the land route through Bukhara and into India preaching Islam. Eventually they settled in Shahzadpur, at the time part of a Hindu kingdom. The king was displeased with the disruption caused by Makhdum Shah and his followers and ordered them expelled from his kingdom. Makhdum Shah refused to comply and he and nearly all of his followers were killed. Makhdum Shah is buried beside the old Shahi mosque at Shahjadpur in Sirajganj District. Demographics As of the 1991 Bangladesh census, Shahjadpur has a population of 420452. It has 70998 households an ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
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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