This is a list of speakers and deputy speakers of the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh.
This is a list of speakers and deputy speakers of the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh.
| N | Speaker | Office | Office | Deputy Speaker | Legislature | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shah Abdul Hamid | 10 April 1972 | 1 May 1972 | Md Baytullah | Ganaparishad | Bangladesh Awami League | |
| 2 | Mohammad Mohammadullah | 7 April 1973 | 26 January 1974 | 1st Jatiya Sangsad | |||
| 3 | Abdul Malek Ukil | 27 January 1974 | 5 November 1975 | Vacant | |||
| 4 | Mirza Ghulam Hafiz | 2 April 1979 | 23 March 1982 | Barrister Sultan Ahmed Chy | 2nd Jatiya Sangsad | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
| 5 | Shamsul Huda Chowdhury | 10 July 1986 | 24 April 1988 | Md Korban Ali | 3rd Jatiya Sangsad | Jatiya Party | |
| 25 April 1988 | 5 April 1991 | Md. Reazuddin Ahmed | 4th Jatiya Sangsad | ||||
| 6 | Abdur Rahman Biswas | 5 April 1991 | 25 September 1991 | Sheikh Razzaque Ali | 5th Jatiya Sangsad | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
| 7 | Sheikh Razzaque Ali | 12 October 1991 | 19 March 1996 | Humayun Khan Panni | |||
| 19 March 1996 | 14 July 1996 | L. K. Siddiqi | 6th Jatiya Sangsad | ||||
| 8 | Humayun Rashid Chowdhury | 14 July 1996 | 10 July 2001 | Mohammad Abdul Hamid | 7th Jatiya Sangsad | Bangladesh Awami League | |
| 9 | Mohammad Abdul Hamid | 12 July 2001 | 28 October 2001 | Prof. Ali Ashraf | |||
| 10 | Jamiruddin Sircar | 28 October 2001 | 25 January 2009 | Akhtar Hameed Siddiqui | 8th Jatiya Sangsad | Bangladesh Nationalist Party | |
| (9) | Mohammad Abdul Hamid | 25 January 2009 | 24 April 2013 | Shawkat Ali | 9th Jatiya Sangsad | Bangladesh Awami League | |
| 11 | Shawkat Ali (acting) | 24 April 2013 | 30 April 2013 | Vacant | |||
| 12 | Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury | 30 April 2013 | 24 January 2014 | Shawkat Ali | |||
| 24 January 2014 | 28 January 2019 | Fazle Rabbi Miah | 10th Jatiya Sangsad | ||||
| 30 January 2019 | 22 July 2022 | 11th Jatiya Sangsad | |||||
| 22 August 2022 | 30 January 2024 | Shamsul Hoque Tuku | 11th Jatiya Sangsad | ||||
| 30 January 2024 | 5 August 2024 | 12th Jatiya Sangsad | |||||
Sansad or Sangsad is the word for "Assembly", association, council or "Parliament" in several Indo-Aryan languages, derived from a Sanskrit root. It may also mean:
The Jatiya Sangsad, often simply referred to as Sangsad and also known as the House of the Nation, is the supreme legislative body of Bangladesh. The current parliament of Bangladesh contains 350 seats, including 50 seats reserved exclusively for women. Elected occupants are called members of Parliament, or MPs. The 12th national parliamentary election was held on 7 January 2024. Elections to the body are held every five years, unless a parliament is dissolved earlier by the President of Bangladesh. On 6 August 2024, President Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolved parliament after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina and ordered to form a interim government.
Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban or National Parliament Building, is the house of the Parliament of Bangladesh, located at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar besides St. Joseph Higher Secondary School in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. Designed while the country was still part of Pakistan by architect Louis Kahn, the complex is one of the largest legislative complexes in the world, covering 208 acres (840,000 m2).
The Jatiya Party (Bengali: জাতীয় পার্টি, romanized: Jatiyo Party, lit. 'National Party'; JaPa or JP(E)) is a political party in Bangladesh. 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.
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Abdul Malek Ukil was the president of Bangladesh Awami League, speaker of parliament, home minister, health minister, a member of parliament for many years and a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He was one of the drafters of the Constitution of Bangladesh and also one of the founding members of East Bengal Muslim Students League.
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 27 February 1991. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) emerged as the largest party in parliament, winning 140 of the 300 directly elected seats. The BNP formed a government with the support of the Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami and on 20 March Khaleda Zia was sworn in for her first term as Prime Minister.
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Sharaf Uddin Khashru is a politician in Sylhet District of Bangladesh. He was elected a member of parliament from Sylhet-6 on the Jatiya Party ticket in the fifth Jatiya Sangsad elections held in the 1991 and in the sixth Jatiya Sangsad elections held on 15 February 1996, was elected a member of parliament from Sylhet-6 seat for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
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A Member of Parliament (MP) in Bangladesh is a member of the unicameral legislature of Bangladesh, the Jatiya Sangsad or House of the Nation. A majority of members are elected directly in general elections, while a minority of seats are reserved exclusively for women and allocated on a proportional basis. The Constitution specifies that Parliament consists of 300 directly elected members, while 50 seats are reserved for women. The individual who leads the largest party or alliance in parliament usually becomes Prime Minister of Bangladesh. The parliament is currently dissolved by order of the President until the next general election due to the result of the protests ousting the current government.