Back الحزب الوطني البنغلاديشي Arabic বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল Bengali/Bangla Bangladesh Nationalist Party German Partido Nacionalista de Bangladés Spanish حزب ملیگرای بنگلادش Persian Bangladeshin nationalistipuolue Finnish Parti nationaliste du Bangladesh French बांग्लादेश नेशनलिस्ट पार्टी Hindi Partai Nasionalis Bangladesh ID Partito Nazionalista del Bangladesh Italian
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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, romanized: Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Dal),[1][c] popularly abbreviated as BNP ([ˈbijenpi]), is a major political party in Bangladesh. Founded on 1 September 1978 by former president of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman with a view of uniting people with a nationalist ideology, the BNP later became one of the two dominant parties in Bangladesh, along with its archrival, the Awami League.
Known as the "Party of the Freedom Fighters of the Battlefield",[9] BNP was founded by Ziaur Rahman 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.[10]
Since its creation, the BNP has won the 1979 election and 1981 presidential election as well as the 1991, February 1996 and 2001 general elections.[11][12][13] Ziaur Rahman-led governments formed under the semi-presidential system and the parliamentary republics were led by Khaleda Zia, who served as prime minister.[14] Begum Zia, who served as the party's chairperson from 1983, became the first woman prime minister of Bangladesh and the second female prime minister of a Muslim-majority country after Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto. The party holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country with 116 seats in the general election of June 1996.[15]
Begum Khaleda Zia is currently the chairperson of the party, with Tarique Rahman as the senior vice-chairman and Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the secretary-general. The party tends to consulate votes based on complete independence of Bangladeshi territory and a mix of Bengali and Islamic customs. It is often known to be pro-global with being very pro-China or pro-Southeast Asia and pro-Middle East to capture markets on foreign investment and remittance.[16]
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- ^ ন্যাপের অফিস ও প্রতীক দু-ই বিএনপির দখলে [Both the NAP office and symbol are in the control of BNP]. Bhorer Kagoj. 17 November 2022.
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- ^ 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.
- ^ রাজনৈতিক চরিত্র হারাচ্ছে বিএনপি! [BNP is loosing political character!]. Bangla Tribune (in Bengali). 18 February 2016. Archived from the original on 15 August 2024. Retrieved 21 March 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Opposition primed to win Bangladesh poll". UPI. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
- ^ "Zia: The hero in Bangladesh's history". 3 June 2023. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
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