Ganotantri Party, (Bengali: গণতন্ত্রি পার্টি, English: Democratic Party), is a left-wing political party in Bangladesh. The party is closely aligned with

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 ...

. Barrister Arosh Ali is the President and Dr Shahadat Hossain is the General Secretary of the Ganotantri Party.

History

Suranjit Sengupta Suranjit Sengupta (5 May 1945 – 5 February 2017) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He resigned in 2012 as the first Railway Minister of Bangladesh. He was the member of parliament from Sunamganj-2 constituency in the Jatiya Sangsad ...

was elected to Parliament from Sunamganj-2 on a Ganotantri Party nomination. He left the Ganotantri Party in 2001 and joined Bangladesh Awami League. The Party's former President of the Party, Nurul Islam, died in a fire at his home in December 2009 before the 9th parliamentary election in which he was the candidate of the Grand Alliance in Noakhali-1. There were some allegations from his allies and family members that he was murdered.

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