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- ↑ "List of 3rd Parliament Members" (PDF). Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 September 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ↑ "Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami". jamaat-e-islami.org. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
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