Gano Azadi League

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President Iskandar Mirza
Founder Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish
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Bangladesh Gano Azadi League (Bangladesh People's Freedom League) is a political party in Bangladesh, founded by Maulana Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish in 1976. [1] The party president is Iskandar Mirza. [2] The party is a member of the centre-left 11-Party Alliance. [3]

The party was briefly allied with the Awami League in the 1980s. [4]

In the 2001 parliamentary elections the party ran three candidates, in the 3 Nowabganj constituencies[ citation needed ]. Samad stood in the constituency Nawabganj-3, and got 468 votes (2.15%). In Nawabganj-1, party candidate Mohammed Nazrul Islam got 108 votes (0.04%) and in Nowabganj-2 Mohammed Bazlur Rahman got 204 votes (0.09%)[ citation needed ].

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References

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