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 major political party in Bangladesh. Founded on 1 September 1978 by Bangladeshi president Ziaur Rahman with a view of uniting people with a nationalist ideology,BNP later became one of the two dominant parties in Bangladesh,along with its archrival Awami League. Initially a big tent centrist party,it later moved towards more right-wing politics.
Ghulam Azam was a Bangladeshi politician. He served as the Ameer of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
General elections were held in Bangladesh on 1 October 2001. The 300 seats 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.
Asaduzzaman Noor is a Bangladeshi actor,politician and activist. He was a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Nilphamari-2 constituency during 2001–2024 and served as the cultural affairs minister during 2014–2019.
Events from the year 1967 in Pakistan.
Shahriyar Kabir is a Bangladeshi journalist,filmmaker,human rights activist,war crimes researcher and author of more than 70 books focusing on human rights,communism,fundamentalism,history,and the Bangladesh war of independence. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1995. He is the President of the Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee. He is the former president of Forum for Secular Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami,previously known as Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh,is the largest Islamist political party in Bangladesh.
Khelafat Majlis is a far-right Islamist political party in Bangladesh. The party was founded in Dhaka,the capital of Bangladesh in 1989 by Azizul Haque along with Ahmad Abdul Qadir and former leaders of the National Awami Party and Tamaddun Majlish. Since its founding,it has only ever gained one seat in the country's National Parliament.
The International Crimes Tribunal (Bangladesh) (ICT of Bangladesh) is a domestic war crimes tribunal in Bangladesh set up in 2009 to investigate and prosecute suspects for the genocide committed in 1971 by the Pakistan Army and their local collaborators Razakars,Al-Badr and Al-Shams during the Bangladesh Liberation War. During the 2008 general election,the Awami League (AL) pledged to try war criminals. The government set up the tribunal after the Awami League won the general election in December 2008 with a more than two-thirds majority in parliament.
Ruhul Quddus Talukder "Dulu" is a Bangladeshi politician,lawyer,former deputy minister,and member of parliament representing the Natore-2 constituency. He is the organising secretary of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Dulu was born in Natore Sadar Upazila,Natore District. He was a regular practitioner lawyer. Along with his legal career,he was also active in politics. In 1977,he joined the BNP's student organisation,Chhatra Dal.
On 5 February 2013,protests ignited in Shahbagh,Bangladesh,fueled by the call for the execution of the convicted war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah. Previously sentenced to life imprisonment,Mollah was convicted on five of six counts of war crimes by the International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh. Mollah supported the West Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and played a crucial role in the murder of numerous Bengali nationalists and intellectuals. The demonstrations also sought the government's ban on the radical right-wing and conservative-Islamist group,Jamaat-e-Islami from participating in politics,including elections,and a boycott of institutions supporting or affiliated with the group.
Islami Andolan Bangladesh,abbreviated as IAB,is a major Deobandi Islamist political party in Bangladesh. It was founded in 1987 by Fazlul Karim as Islami Shashontantra Andolan,and took its current name in 2008. The party maintains distance from both of the dominant parties in Bangladesh,Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party. In the recent years,the party has gradually done well in the local government elections. The number of votes of the party has increased also in the national polls.
Shafiqur Rahman is a Bangladeshi politician and physician who has been serving as the Ameer of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami since 2019. Previously,he served as the acting secretary-general of Jamaat-e-Islami from October 2016 to November 2019,until his election as Ameer on 12 November 2019. Before being the secretary-general,he had been the Ameer of Sylhet City branch of Jamaat-e-Islami.
Abu Saleh Mohammad Abdul Aziz Mia is a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member from the Gaibandha-1 constituency during 2001–2006. In 2017,he was sentenced to capital punishment for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
Farid Uddin Chowdhury is a teacher,politician and businessman. He was the former Member of Parliament for the Sylhet-5 constituency from 2001 to 2008,representing Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami.
Syed Kamal Bakht was a Bangladeshi politician and a Member of Parliament of Satkhira-1.
AKM Fazlul Haque Milon is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Gazipur-3.
Nurul Islam Moni is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Barguna-2.
Mufti Abdus Sattar Akon was a teacher,politician and former leader of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. He was a member of parliament for Bagerhat-4.
