Bangladesh elects on national level a legislature with one house or chamber. The unicameral Jatiyo Sangshad,meaning national parliament,has 350 members of which 300 members are directly elected through a national election for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies while 50 memberships are reserved for the women who are selected by the ruling party or coalition. The Prime Minister is the head of the government. The president who is the head of the state is elected by the National Parliament. The president of Bangladesh is a ceremonial post and does not exercise any control over the running of the state.
Mohammed Nasim was a Bangladesh Awami League politician who served as Bangladesh's minister of home affairs and minister of health and family welfare during 1999–2001 and 2014–2019,respectively. He was a 6-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Sirajganj-1 and Sirajganj-2 constituencies. He was a presidium member of Awami League and the spokesperson of the 14-party alliance.
Sayed Ashraful Islam was a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He was the General Secretary of the Bangladesh Awami League party. He served as a Member of Parliament and Minister of Public Administration of the Government of Bangladesh. Ashraful Islam also served for a time as Minister of Local Government and Rural Development and Co-operative.
Dipu Moni is a Bangladeshi politician and former minister of social welfare. She was a member of parliament for the Chandpur-3 constituency. She was minister of education in the fourth Hasina ministry and minister of foreign affairs in the second Hasina ministry. She was appointed as the first female foreign minister of Bangladesh on 6 January 2009,serving until 2013. Currently she is Joint secretary of the Bangladesh Awami League.
Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is a Bangladeshi politician. He has been the secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) since 2016. He was a member of the parliament for Thakurgaon-1 constituency from 2001 to 2006. In that term,he was also appointed as the Minister of State in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture and later Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism.
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.
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. The elections were marred by violence,and were widely considered by opposition politicians and the international community to be rigged.
Jahangir Kabir Nanak is a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He was a Minister of Textiles and Jute and a former Member of Parliament representing the Dhaka-13 constituency. Nanak is also a Presidium Member of the Awami League Central Committee. Previously,he served as the State Minister for Local Government,Rural Development and Co-operatives
Muhammad Afsarul Ameen was a Bangladeshi Awami League politician. He became the member of parliament for Chittagong-9 in 2008,was re-elected to the constituency in 2014 and 2018,and was the Minister of Primary and Mass Education until 2014.
Noor-E-Alam Chowdhury is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Madaripur-1 constituency and the former Chief whip of Jatiya Sangsad. He has been missing along with his brother Mujibur Rahman Chowdhury (Nixon) and other family members,since the resignation of his aunt Sheikh Hasina on 5 August 2024.
Ziauddin Ahmed Bablu was a Bangladeshi politician of the Jatiya Party and served as the Secretary General for two terms. He was a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Chittagong-9 constituency at the 10th Jatiya Sangsad and the Chittagong-6 constituency at the 4th Jatiya Sangsad. He served as the Cabinet Minister for Energy during Ershad's regime in the 1980s. He was appointed an advisor to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in November 2013.
Habibur Rahman was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a four-term Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Dhaka-4 and Dhaka-5 constituencies.
A. K. M. Bahauddin Bahar is a Bangladeshi politician from Awami League and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Comilla-6 constituency. His original name is Abul khayer muhammad bahauddin bahar
H. M. Ibrahim is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Noakhali-1 constituency.
Shamsul Alam Dudu is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Joypurhat-1 constituency.
2018 Bangladesh election violence refers to a series of brutal attacks,mostly on opposition party candidates and clashes between ruling and opposition party men centering on the general election on December 30,2018.
Mohammad Abdullah is a Bangladeshi politician and academic. After teaching in higher education for over a decade,he served three terms as a member of parliament for constituency Chandpur-4,as a nominee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party from 1991 to 2001. He later resigned from the Bangladesh Nationalist party and joined the Liberal Democratic Party led by Col. (Retd.) Oli Ahmed.
Sultan Muhammed Mansur Ahmed is a Bangladeshi politician. He was vice president of Dhaka University Central Students' Union. In 2018 Bangladesh general election he contested from Moulvibazar-2 as a candidate of Jatiya Oikya Front and won the seat.
AKM Fazlul Haque Milon is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and a former member of parliament for Gazipur-3.
Mohammad Nurul Huda was a Bangladeshi politician. He was elected as a member of parliament from the Chandpur-2 constituency in the 2nd,5th,6th,and 8th general elections. He was a former vice-chairman of the central executive committee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and a member of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia's advisory council. In 1991,he served as the minister of state for Information and Establishment in Khaleda Zia's first cabinet.
