Gano Azadi League Explained

Gamo Azadi League
President:Iskandar Mirza
Founder:Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish
Founded:1976
Country:Bangladesh

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. 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%).

Notes and References

  1. Book: Chowdhury, Mahfuzul H. . Democratization in South Asia: lessons from American institutions . 2003 . . 978-0-7546-3423-2 . 118 .
  2. Book: Day, Alan John . Political parties of the world . 1988 . . 978-0-582-02626-1 . 45 .
  3. Web site: Archived copy . 2009-12-12 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110714174443/http://www.newsnetwork-bd.com/UI/Public/NewsDetail.php?LogID=8111 . 2011-07-14 .
  4. Web site: Bangladesh - Awami League. 2022-01-21. countrystudies.us.

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