National Democratic Party | |
Native Name: | জাতীয় গণতান্ত্রিক দল |
Native Name Lang: | bn |
Regional: | Asia Pacific Democracy Union |
International: | Centrist Democrat International |
Abbreviation: | NDP |
Flag: | File:NDP Logo by Mahbub Pathan.jpg |
Leader1 Title: | Chairman |
Leader1 Name: | KM Abu Taher |
Leader3 Title: | Secretary General |
Leader3 Name: | Abdullah Al-Harun (Sohel) |
Founder: | Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury |
Foundation: | 10 September, 1989 |
Headquarters: | Dhaka |
Slogan: | Bangladesh Zindabad |
Country: | Bangladesh |
The National Democratic Party is a right-wing political party in Bangladesh.[1] [2] Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury was elected member of the fifth parliament of Bangladesh. Khandaker Golam Mortuza was the chairman of the National Democratic Party until 2018.[3] K M Abu Taher is the chairman and Abdullah-Al-Harun (Sohel) is Secretary General of the National Democratic Party (NDP).
Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury led the National Democratic Party in the early 1990s and worked against the Bangladesh Awami League against the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government.[4]
The National Democratic Party joined the National Democratic Front, an alliance of 10 nationalist parties, in September 2014.[5] The party had left the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led Grand Alliance in October 2014.[6] Chowdhury was elected to Parliament on a National Democratic Party nomination from Chittagong-6 in 1991.[7]
The National Democratic Party left the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in 2022 and created a 12-party alliance.[8] [9]