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Top right: Ziaur Rahman, the first president elected directly by the people of Bangladesh. He was the president from 21 April 1977 to 30 May 1981. Bottom left: Hussain Muhammad Ershad, the last president of Bangladesh directly elected by the people. He was the president from 11 December 1983 to 6 December 1990, a regime known as a dictatorship.
Presidential: JaGoDal/ BNP. 1978: 237/330 1979-1982 Shah Azizur Rahman: 1981-1982 Abdus Sattar: Sattar 1981: Second Military rule [12] 1982-1983 Ahsanuddin Chowdhury: Post abolished: Junta: Presidential: Independent military backed: None — 1983-1984 Hossain Mohammad Ershad: Military: Third Jatiyo Sangsad [13] 1984-1985 Hossain Mohammad Ershad ...
President of Bangladesh (POB), [a] officially the President of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, [b] is the head of state of Bangladesh and commander-in-chief of the Bangladesh Armed Forces. The role of the president has changed three times since Bangladesh achieved its independence in 1971. Presidents had been given executive power.
In 1978, General Ziaur Rahman ran for and an overwhelmingly won a five-year term as president. [63] [64] The next year elections were held for the National Assembly. Opponents questioned the integrity of the elections. [52] [65] Zia allowed Sheikh Hasina, the exiled daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, to return to Bangladesh in 1981. [66]
Bangladesh, [a] officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, [b] is a country in South Asia.It is the eighth-most populous country in the world and among the most densely populated with a population exceeding 170 million within an area of 147,570 square kilometres (56,980 sq mi).
Bangladesh saw violent protests in 1987 calling for the resignation of Ershad. [47] In July, eight people died in 54-hour general strike and hundreds were injured. [48] The protest started against a new law that would allow the military to have role in local development which was opposed by the leader of the opposition Sheikh Hasina. [49]
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Abu Sayeed Chowdhury [a] (31 January 1921 – 2 August 1987) was a jurist and the second president of Bangladesh. [3] Besides that, he held the positions of the Chairman of the United Nations Commission on Human rights, the vice-chancellor of the University of Dhaka, the Foreign Minister of Bangladesh and the first Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK.