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 an interim government.
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.
The Jatiya Party (Bengali:জাতীয়পার্টি,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.
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.
Ghulam Muhammed Quader,better known as GM Quader,is a Bangladeshi politician and the 2nd chairperson of Jatiya Party and was the Opposition Leader of Bangladesh Parliament. He is a former Jatiya Sangsad member from the Lalmonirhat-3 constituency. He served as the Minister of Commerce and Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism from 2009 to 2014.
Nurul Islam Babul was a Bangladeshi business magnate. He was the founder and chairman of the business conglomerate Jamuna Group.
Monnujan Sufian is a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member from Women's Reserved Seat-41 and from Khulna-3 constituencies. She is a former State Minister of Labour and Employment.
Shah Moazzem Hossain was a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the last deputy prime minister of Bangladesh. He was elected as the Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Rangpur-6 constituency as a Jatiya Party candidate in a by-election in September 1991 and served until November 1995.
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.
Sadhan Chandra Majumder is a Bangladeshi politician served as the Minister of Food during 2019–2024 and a former member of Jatiya Sangsad representing the Naogaon-1 constituency during 2009–2024.
Salma Chowdhury is an Awami League politician and former Member of 11th Jatiya Sangsad in the Reserved Seats for Women.
Selina Islam is a Bangladeshi controversial business person who later joins politics. She nominated as Jatiya Sangsad member from the reserved women's seat-49.
Masuda M Rashid Chowdhury was a Jatiya Party (Ershad) politician and a Jatiya Sangsad member from a reserved seat during 2019–2021.
Shamsun Nahar is a politician of the Bangladesh Awami League. She was elected to the 11th Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh on a reserved seat category for women.
The Eleventh Jatiya Sangsad was formed with the elected members of the 11th General Election of Bangladesh 2018. The Parliament was sworn in on the 3rd January 2019. On seventh January the Ministers were sworn in. On the January 30th first session of the parliament took place. Out of the 350 seats 300 members are directly elected by the people and rest 50 seats are reserved for women and are filled by proportional representation. Awami League won 258 seats out of the 300 seats and formed the government under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina Jatiya Party got 22 seats and became the main opposition party.
Sharifa Quader is a Bangladeshi politician who is the incumbent Jatiya Sangsad member from the reserved women's seat-45.
General elections are expected to take place in Bangladesh following the removal of the government of Sheikh Hasina amidst the Student–People's uprising in August 2024. A constituent assembly election will take place before the general elections. The interim government led by Muhammad Yunus has established constitutional and election reform commissions for this purpose and announced that elections will be held in late 2025 or early 2026.
Jatiya Sangsad Election Act,2004 was an act of the Jatiya Sangshad,the parliament of Bangladesh,passed in 2004,creating reserved seats in the parliament of Bangladesh for women.
Nadia Binte Amin is a politician and businesswoman. She is a former 12th Jatiya Sangsad member from a women's reserved seat for Netrakona District.
Nurunnahar Begum is a Jatiya Party politician and a former Jatiya Sangsad member from a women's reserved for Jhenaidah District. She is the head of the Thakurgaon District unit of the party.
