Politics of Bangladesh takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic,whereby the Prime Minister of Bangladesh is the head of government,and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The Constitution of Bangladesh was written in 1972 and has undergone seventeen amendments.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is a conservative,centre-right political party in Bangladesh and one of the major political parties of Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by the late Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman after the Presidential election of 1978,with a view of uniting the people with a nationalist ideology. Following Rahman's assassination in 1981,his widow,Khaleda Zia,had taken over leadership of the party and presided as Chairperson until her imprisonment in 2018. Since her imprisonment,Tarique Rahman,the son of late president Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia,has been serving as the acting Chairperson and has run the affairs of the party from London.
Khaleda Zia is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the prime minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996,and again from June 2001 to October 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Bangladesh. She is the widow of former president of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman. She is the chairperson and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) since 1984,which was founded by her late husband in 1978.
The prime minister of Bangladesh,officially prime minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh is the chief executive of the government of Bangladesh. The prime minister and the cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Parliament,to their political party and ultimately to the electorate. The prime minister is ceremonially appointed by the president of Bangladesh.
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 1 October 2001. The 300 single-seat constituencies of the Jatiya Sangsad were contested by 1,935 candidates representing 54 parties and 484 independents. The elections were the second to be held under the caretaker government concept,introduced in 1996.
Bir Protik Akbar Hossain was a Bangladeshi politician of Bangladesh National Party. He served as the minister of Minister for Shipping,Minister for the Environment and Forests and Minister for Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
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.
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 30 December 2018 to elect 300 directly-elected members of the Jatiya Sangsad. The result was another landslide victory for the Awami League-led Grand Alliance led by Sheikh Hasina.
Abu Naser Muhammad Ehsanul Haque Milan is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician,a former member of parliament from the Chandpur-1 constituency and the state minister of Ministry of Education.
Abdus Salam Talukder was a Bangladeshi politician and lawyer. He served as the secretary general of Bangladesh Nationalist Party,the State Minister of Law and Parliamentary Affairs,Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and Jatiya Sangsad member from Jamalpur-4 constituency.
Nazmul Huda was a Bangladeshi barrister and politician. He served as the minister of information (1991–1996) and the minister of communications (2001–2006) of the government of Bangladesh. He was a four-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Dhaka-1 constituency. He was a member of Bangladesh Nationalist Party since its inception until 2012 when he left the party as its vice chairman.
Muhammad Shahrin Islam Chowdhury,also known by his daak naam Tuhin,is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and former Member of Parliament for Nilphamari-1. He is the nephew of former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia.
Shamsul Islam Khan was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Manikganj-4 constituency and a former minister of industries at the first Khaleda Zia cabinet.
Redwan Ahmed is a Bangladesh Liberal Democratic Party politician and a former state minister of liberation war affairs. He is a 4-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Comilla-6 and Comilla-10 constituencies.
Bogra-6 is a constituency represented in the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh since 2023 is Ragebul Ahsan Ripu. As the Member of Parliament,Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party refused to take the oath.
Zakaria Taher Sumon is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament of Comilla-7.
Abdul Mannan was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Dhaka-2 constituency.
Qazi Saleemul Huq is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Magura-2 constituency during 1994–1996 and 2001–2006. He is the founder of GQ Group of Industries,a manufacturing based organization in Bangladesh. He has been imprisoned since February 2018 for a 10-year sentence in the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case.
M. A. Matin was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former member of parliament for Comilla-23 and Chandpur-5.
Jahanara Begum was a Bangladeshi politician,a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Rajbari-1 constituency and a State Minister of Cultural Affairs.
