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Bangladesh Nationalist Party বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল | |
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| Abbreviation | BNP [ˈbijenpi] |
| Chairperson | Begum Khaleda Zia Tarique Rahman (Acting Chairperson)[1] |
| General Secretary | Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir |
| Spokesperson | Ruhul Kabir Rizvi |
| Senior Vice-Chairman | Tarique Rahman |
| Vice-Chairman | Hafizuddin Ahmed |
| Founder | Ziaur Rahman |
| Founded | 1 September 1978 |
| Preceded by | Jatiyatabadi Ganatantrik Dal |
| Headquarters | 28/1 Naya Paltan, Dhaka |
| Newspaper | The Daily Dinkal |
| Student wing | Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal |
| Youth wing | Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Jubo Dal |
| Women's wing | Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Mohila Dal |
| Farmer wing | Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Krishak Dal |
| Trade union wing | Bangladesh Jatyatabadi Sramik Dal |
| Volunteer wing | Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Sechchasebak Dal[2] |
| Cleric wing | Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Olama Dal[3] |
| Ideology | Bangladeshi nationalism Conservatism (Bangladeshi) |
| Political position | Right-wing[a] |
| National affiliation | 12 Party Alliance (2022–present)[12] Former:
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| International affiliation | Asia Pacific Democrat Union[13][14] |
| Colors | Blue[13][14][15] |
| Slogan | Bangladesh Zindabad ("Long Live Bangladesh") |
| Anthem | Prothom Bangladesh ("Bangladesh First") |
| Seats in Jatiya Sangsad | 0 / 350 |
| Mayor in City Corporations | 0 / 12 |
| Councillor in City Corporations | 71 / 640 |
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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, romanized: Bānglādesh Jātīyôtābādī Dôl, abbreviated as BNP) is a major political party in Bangladesh. Founded on 1 September 1978 by the late Bangladeshi president Ziaur Rahman, with a view of uniting people with a nationalist ideology, BNP later came out as one of the two most dominant parties in Bangladesh, along with its archrival Awami League. Initially being a big tent centrist party, it moved towards more right-wing politics later.[11]
Ziaur Rahman founded the party after the presidential election of 1978 and remained in its leadership until his assassination in 1981. Following Rahman's assassination, his widow, Khaleda Zia, took over leadership of the party and presided as chairperson until her imprisonment, in 2018. Since then, Tarique Rahman, the son of Rahman and Zia, has served as acting chairperson and has run the affairs of the party from London.[16]
Since its creation, the BNP has won the 1979 and 1981 presidential elections as well as the 1991,[17] 1996,[18] and 2001[19] general elections, respectively. Governments formed under the semi-presidential system were led by Ziaur Rahman, and the parliamentary republics were led by Khaleda Zia, who served as prime minister.[20] The party holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country, with 116 seats in the seventh national election of June 1996.[21] It currently has 7 MPs in parliament following the 2018 general election.[22]
The BNP's student wing was a driving force in the 1990 uprising against the autocratic Ershad rule that culminated in the fall of the regime and the restoration of democracy in Bangladesh.[23] Begum Khaleda Zia, who served as the party's chairperson from 1983, was elected as the first woman Prime Minister of Bangladesh and the second female prime minister of a Muslim majority country after Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto.
Begum Khaleda Zia is the chairperson of the party, with Tarique Rahman as the senior vice-chairman and Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the secretary-general.
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- ^ "Bangladesh: Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), including its structure, leaders, membership and membership documents, factions, associated organizations and activities; treatment of members and supporters by authorities". 31 August 2015. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ^ "আওয়ামী লীগ ও বিএনপি দুটোই মধ্যপন্থী রাজনৈতিক দল | AL & BNP are both Centrist Parties". YouTube (in Bengali). Bobby Hajjaj. 23 October 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ Prakash, Pierre (10 January 2024). "Bangladesh's Flawed Election Increases Polarization, Risk of Violence". The Diplomat. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
Banning the party would only accelerate this trend, uniting leftists, the centrist BNP, and some Islamist forces. ...
- ^ Nazneen, Sohela (March 2009). "Bangladesh: Political Party Discourses and Women's Empowerment". South Asian Journal (24): 44–52. ISSN 1729-6242.
- ^ Rahman, Tahmina (6 September 2022). "From Revolutionaries to Visionless Parties: Leftist Politics in Bangladesh". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
The center-right Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)…
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When right-wing Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its Islamist ally, Jamaat-e-Islami, won the general election in 2001, the minority Hindus bore the brunt of the celebration.
- ^ "বাংলাদেশের ডানপন্থি রাজনীতি". Jaijaidin. 30 January 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ a b "রাজনৈতিক চরিত্র হারাচ্ছে বিএনপি!" [BNP is loosing political character!]. Dhaka Tribune (in Bengali). 18 February 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ প্রতিনিধি, বিশেষ (22 December 2022). "২০ দল ভেঙে দুটি জোট, লক্ষ্য যুগপৎ আন্দোলন". Prothomalo (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 29 December 2022. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
- ^ a b "Why BNP's tirade against PM Hasina's India visit sounds hollow". The Daily Star: Bangladesh's Islamist opposition too seems to be on an overdrive to belittle Hasina whenever she is on a visit to India. But these high-pitch allegations ring hollow. 9 September 2022. Archived from the original on 9 September 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
- ^ a b "Political Parties in Bangladesh" (PDF). Bangladesh Election Commission. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ Riaz, Ali (2003). ""God Willing": The Politics and Ideology of Islamism in Bangladesh". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 23 (1–2): 301–320. doi:10.1215/1089201X-23-1-2-301.
- ^ "BNP to hold countrywide protest movement today condemning Nayapaltan clash, arrest of its leaders". The Business Standard. 8 December 2022. Archived from the original on 5 January 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
The meeting was presided over by BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman(...)Tarique and his wife Zubaida Rahman have been living in London since 2008.
- ^ "BANGLADESH: parliamentary elections Jatiya Sangsad, 1991". Inter-Parliamentary Union. Archived from the original on 6 August 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
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- ^ "Bangladesh parliamentary Elections 1 October 2001: Final Report" (PDF). EU Election Observation Mission. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 October 2022. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
- ^ "Begum Khaleda Zia -". Archives of Women's Political Communication. Archived from the original on 5 January 2023. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "www.ecs.gov.bd" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
- ^ "4 BNP MPs elect enter JS oath". The Daily Star. Archived from the original on 1 October 2020.
- ^ Siddiqui et al. 2010, p. 324.