Country: | Bangladesh |
Progressive Democratic Party | |
Native Name: | প্রগতিশীল গণতান্ত্রিক দল |
Founder: | Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi |
Seats1 Title: | Seats in Jatiya Sangsad |
Seats1: | |
Founded: | 21 June 2007 |
Ideology: | Democracy |
Headquarters: | 8/4-A, Topkhana Road, Dhaka-1000[1] |
The Progressive Democratic Party (Bengali: প্রগতিশীল গণতান্ত্রিক দল) is a newly established democratic party in Bangladesh. It is popularly known as the PDP. This party was launched on 21 June 2007 though a press conference, as soon as limited indoor political activity was allowed, although open politics was prohibited at that time as the country was still under a state of emergency.[2]
The founder and president of the party, Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi, died at the end of August 2020.[3] The Bangladesh Election Commission cancelled the party's registration in November of that year for not having a functioning central committee or sufficient offices at district and lower levels to maintain registration.[4]