Bangladesh Nationalist Front is a political party in Bangladesh. Former member of parliament for

Dhaka-17 Dhaka-17 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad (National Parliament) of Bangladesh since 2019 by Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque of the Awami League. Boundaries The constituency encompasses Dhaka Cantonment and Dhaka North City Co ...

Abul Kalam Azad is the chairman of the party.

History

Nazmul Huda Nazmul Huda (born 6 January 1943) is a Bangladeshi barrister and politician. He served as the minister of information (1991–1996) and the minister of communications (2001–2006) of the government of Bangladesh. He was a 4-term Jatiya Sangsad ...

founded Bangladesh Nationalist Front in August 2012 after resigning from

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 ...

on 6 June 2012. Abul Kamal Azad, member-secretary, expelled Huda from Bangladesh Nationalist Front. The Front was registered with the

Bangladesh Election Commission The Bangladesh Election Commission ( bn, বাংলাদেশ নির্বাচন কমিশন), abbreviated and publicly referred to as EC, is an independent constitutional body that operates the legal functions of election laws i ...

in 2015. In 2015 during talks with President Abdul Hamid over the next election Bangladesh Nationalist Front proposed that the

Election Commission Secretariat An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operate ...

be scrapped.

References

Nationalist parties in Asia Political parties in Bangladesh Political parties established in 2012 2012 establishments in Bangladesh Organisations based in Dhaka {{Bangladesh-org-stub