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 Krishak Sramik Awami League (BaKSAL) (Bengali:বাংলাদেশকৃষকশ্রমিকআওয়ামীলীগ,English:Bangladesh Worker-Peasant's People's League;বাকশাল) was a political front comprising the Bangladesh Awami League,the Communist Party of Bangladesh,the National Awami Party (Muzaffar) and Bangladesh Jatiya League.
The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal is a political party in Bangladesh. The party was founded by Serajul Alam Khan. The party was very dominant during 1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency.
Shajahan Siraj was a Bangladeshi politician who served as the vice chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). As a student,he was involved with the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was one of the founders of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal. He was a member of Jatiya Sangsad representing the Tangail-4 constituency.
Gonobahini was the armed wing of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal. The group was mainly composed of former Mukti Bahini members from the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.
The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Bengali:জাতীয়সমাজতান্ত্রিকদল,'National Socialist Party') is a political party in Bangladesh. It was formed in 2002,through a split from the original Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal. The party is sometimes referred to as JSD (Rab) (after prominent party leader ASM Abdur Rab),to differentiate it from the mother party led by Hasanul Haq Inu. The Election Commission of Bangladesh calls the party Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD and the Inu-led party Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasad.
The Ganabhaban is the official residence of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh,which is located on the north corner of the National Parliament House in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar,Dhaka. After independence,Sheikh Mujibur Rahman worked at Bangabhaban,which is located on Minto Road.
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.
1974 Ramna Massacre was a massacre of Jatiyo Samajtantarik Dal supporters that took place on March 17,1974. The incident took place when a demonstrators from the Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal,who were blockading the residence of the Home Minister Mansur Ali,located in the Ramna area of Dhaka,was fired upon by members of Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini. The incident reportedly claimed at least fifty lives.
Nizam Mohammad Serajul Alam Khan,commonly known as Serajul Alam Khan,also called as Dada,Dadabhai and by his initials SAK,was a Bangladeshi politician,political analyst,philosopher and writer who spearheaded the Bangladesh liberation movement under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman but also became one of the controlling forces of political polarization in post-independence Bangladesh.
Enforced disappearances in Bangladesh are cases in which the Government of Bangladesh directly or indirectly kidnaps people and holds them incommunicado. According to a Dhaka-based human rights group Odhikar,at least 402 people have become victim of enforced disappearance from 2009 to 2017 under the current Awami League administration. These incidents along with extrajudicial killings in Bangladesh has been criticized by The United Nations and human rights groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB),a special paramilitary unit in Bangladesh,is alleged to be behind most of these disappearances even though RAB claimed these allegations to be false. The current Awami League government denies involvement in these forced disappearances even when victims later surface in custody.
Abdur Rob Serniabat (1921-1975) was a Bangladeshi politician and the former water resources minister. He was the brother-in-law of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,founding father of Bangladesh,and the maternal uncle of Sheikh Hasina,the four-time prime minister of Bangladesh. He was killed during the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 15 August 1975.
Committee for Civil Liberties and Legal Aid in short Civil Liberties Committee was a forum in Bangladesh formed by the members of civil society to restore the civil liberties and provide legal aid to the dissenting population of the country who were the victims of Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini. Headed by eminent poet Sikandar Abu Zafar,the committee consisted a total of 33 members.
Hasanul Haq Inu is a Bangladeshi politician and the former Minister of Information of Bangladesh. He leads a faction of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal and was involved in a Marxist insurgency in the 1970s.
1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency refers to the period after the independence of Bangladesh when left-wing Communist insurgents,particularly the Gonobahini fought against the government of the Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The Sheikh family of Tungipara is one of the two most prominent Bangladeshi political families,other being the Zia family. The family primarily consists of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,Sheikh Hasina,Sheikh Rehana and their relatives. Their political involvement has traditionally revolved around the Bangladesh Awami League.
Lutfa Taher is a Bangladesh Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal and member of parliament.
Mayeen Uddin Khan Badal was a Bangladesh JaSaD politician. He was an MP of Chittagong-7 and Chittagong-8.
Kazi Aref Ahmed was the President of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal and one of the organizers of Bangladesh Liberation war.
Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (Siraj) was a socialist political party in Bangladesh.
