The Jatiya Ganamukti Union (National People's Liberation Union) was a Bangladeshi political party created in 1973 by veteran communist leader Haji Mohammad Danesh, who had been a major activist in the Tebhaga movement. [1] It was merged by Danesh into the ruling Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BAKSAL) in 1975, after the government of president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman outlawed all other parties. After the downfall of the Mujib regime, the JGU was revived by Danesh until 1980, when he left it to form the Ganatantrik Party. [1]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is a center-right nationalist political party in Bangladesh and one of the major political parties of Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by former Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman after the Presidential election of 1978, with a view of uniting the people with a nationalist ideology. Since then, the BNP won the second, fifth, sixth and eighth national elections and two Presidential elections in 1978 and 1981. The party also holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country, with 116 seats in the seventh national election of June 1996. It has currently 9 MPs in parliament after 2018 national election.
The National Awami Party (NAP), translated from Urdu to English as National People's Party, was the major left-wing political party in East and West Pakistan. It was founded in 1957 in Dhaka, erstwhile East Pakistan, by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Yar Mohammad Khan, through the merger of various leftist and progressive political groups in Pakistan. Commonly known as the NAP, it was a major opposition party to Pakistani military regimes for much of the late 1950s and mid-1960s. In 1967 the party split into two factions, one in East Pakistan and another in West Pakistan.
Dinajpur district is a district in the Rangpur Division of northern Bangladesh. Dinajpur is the largest district among all sixteen northern districts of Bangladesh.
Dinajpur is a city and the District headquarters of Dinajpur district situated in Rangpur Division, Bangladesh. It was founded in 1786. It is located 413 km north-west of Dhaka in Bangladesh. It is bounded on the north by Suihari, Katapara, Bangi Bechapara, Pulhat, Koshba on the south, on the east of Sheikhupura and by the river Punarbhaba on the west. Dinajpur is Historically and culturally a very Important city in North Bengal.
Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BaKSAL) was a political front comprising Bangladesh Awami League, Communist Party of Bangladesh, National Awami Party (Muzaffar) and Jatiyo League.
Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) is a government-financed public university of Bangladesh. Locally it is known as Hajee Danesh University.
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1986th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 986th year of the 2nd millennium, the 86th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1980s decade.
Danesh or Danish (دانش) is a Persian word which literally translates to "knowledge", "science" and "wisdom". It is a popular Muslim name in the Indian subcontinent.
Hajee Mohammad Danesh was a Bangladeshi politician and communist activist.
The Ganatantri Dal was East Pakistan's first secular political party. It was founded on 19 January 1953 by Mahmud Ali with Haji Mohammad Danesh, a veteran communist activist of the Tebhaga movement as its first president. The party was the first to open its doors to non-Muslims on an equal footing and demanded a secular constitution. The Ganatantri Dal called for an independent foreign policy and opposed the League's pro-west stance. The party manifesto included the demand for the abolition of feudalism without any compensation, the release of political prisoners, secession from the Commonwealth, nationalization of jute trade, equal rights for women and minorities in social, political and economic spheres, and abolition of visa system between Pakistan and India.
The Ganatantrik Party was a Bangladeshi political party formed in 1980 by the veteran communist leader Haji Mohammad Danesh, a leader of the Tebhaga movement. Shortly before Danesh's death in 1986, the party merged into the ruling Jatiya Party of the then-Bangladeshi President Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad.
M. Afzal Hossain is a Bangladeshi academic and scientist in the field of agriculture and biochemistry. He has been serving as vice-chancellor of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science & Technology University, Dinajpur, since September 2008. In 1998, he was awarded an invitation fellowship from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to serve as a visiting professor at Hokkaido University, Japan.
Yar Mohammad Khan was one of the founders of the Bangladesh Awami League. He was the founder treasurer of the Awami League. His residence in 18, Karkun Bari Lane, Dhaka was the first party office of Bangladesh Awami League and was so for the first few years of the party. He donated a Jeep and also a news paper The Daily Ittefaq for the party Bangladesh Awami League and it was his able financing that helped mobilize and galvanize Awami League in its initial stages that contributed in bolstering the strength of the party and hence catapulted it to the position of being the main political party that eventually led Bangladesh's struggle for independence against the West Pakistan regime.
Haji Mohammad Salim is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member from the Dhaka-7 constituency.
Bhupati Bhushan Chowdhury was a Bangladesh Politician and businessman. He was awarded Independence Day Award in 2018 posthumously by the Government of Bangladesh.
Sultana Rezwan Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi politician from Thakurgaon belonging to Jatiya Party. She was a member of the Jatiya Sangsad.
Rezwanul Haque Idu Chowdhury was a politician from the Thakurgaon District of Bangladesh and a former Member of Parliament of Dinajpur-3 and Thakurgaon-1.