Abdus Sattar is a Bangladeshi politician and former

member of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

. He was elected from

Tangail-1 Tangail-1 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2001 by Abdur Razzak of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Dhanbari Dhanbari ( bn, ধনবাড়ী) is a ...

(Madhupur and Dhanbari) constituency as a

Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal ( bn, জাতীয় সমাজতান্ত্রিক দল, 'National Socialist Party of Bangladesh', JSD or 'জাসদ', JASAD) is a political party in Bangladesh. The party was founded by Serajul ...

candidate in the first Bangladeshi parliamentary election held on 7 March 1973. In the election, he defeated

Bangladesh Awami League Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

candidate Mahendra Lal Barman by a margin of 5,000 votes.

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Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal politicians 1st Jatiya Sangsad members {{Dhaka-politician-stub