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The BNP National Council empowered re-elected party chairperson Khaleda Zia to pick other members for the National Executive Committee and Standing Committee. [66] It elected her eldest son, Tarique Rahman, to the powerful post as Senior vice-chairman, in a "move apparently designed to smooth his path to the party helm."
The local leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allied organizations organized a roadside gathering in Ghonapara, Gopalganj to mark the arrival of central president of Sechchasebak Dal, S. M. Jilani, at his hometown in Tungipara, Gopalganj. After the rally at Bedgram in the town, BNP leaders and activists set off towards ...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was founded on 1 September 1978 by President Ziaur Rahman, politician and physician A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, human rights activist and lawyer Moudud Ahmed and Mashiur Rahman as the key people. BNP has won the second, fifth, sixth and eighth national elections and two presidential elections, in 1978 and ...
The history of Bangladesh dates back over four millennia to ... (modern day Sri Lanka) in 544 BC and gave the name "Sinhala" to ... the Jatiya (National) Party, ...
The party founder and leader, Dr. Godahewa, is also a member of the Freedom Peoples Congress, a political party consisting of a group of MPs led by Dullas Alahapperuma who broke ranks with the SLPP, the incumbent ruling party of Sri Lanka, in 2022. [5] Both parties are members of the Freedom People's Alliance. [6]
The name of Sri Lanka was introduced by the Marxist Lanka Sama Samaja Party founded in 1935. The Sanskrit honorific Sri was introduced in the name of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය, romanized: Sri Lanka Nidahas Pakshaya) founded in 1952.
The National People's Party may refer to: National People's Party (Bangladesh), see List of political parties in Bangladesh; National People's Party (Curaçao) National People's Party (Czechoslovakia) National People's Party (The Gambia) National People's Party (Greece), see National Radical Party (Greece) National People's Party (India)
The defenses of Sri Lanka were beefed up to three British army divisions because the island was strategically important, holding almost all the British Empire's resources of rubber. Rationing was instituted so that Sri Lankans were comparatively better fed than their Indian neighbours, in order to prevent disaffection among the natives.