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The Jatiya Party is a political party in Bangladesh self-describing as conservative, and is currently the main opposition in the Jatiya Sangsad, against the Awami League. The current chairman of the party is Ghulam Muhammed Quader. On 3 January 2019, the party announced its decision to join the Bangladesh Awami League-led Grand Alliance after having been in opposition for the previous parliamentary term. However, the party backtracked the next day and announced that it intended to remain part of the opposition. Currently, it holds Rangpur out of Bangladesh's 12 city corporations. The current chairperson of the party is Ghulam Muhammed Quader MP.
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Rangpur-2 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh since 2014 by Abul Kalam Md. Ahasanul Hoque Chowdhury of the Awami League.
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Ebadur Rahman Chowdhury was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Moulvibazar-1 constituency. He also served as State Minister of Disaster Management and Relief from 2001 to 2003.
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- ↑ ""List of 4th Parliament Members"" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2020.