Gano Azadi League

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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 Alhaj Abdus Samad.^[2] The party is a member of the centre-left 11-Party Alliance.^[3]

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%).

References

↑ Chowdhury, Mahfuzul H. (2003). Democratization in South Asia: lessons from American institutions. Ashgate Publishing. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-7546-3423-2.
↑ Day, Alan John (1988). Political parties of the world. Longman. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-582-02626-1.
↑ http://www.newsnetwork-bd.com/UI/Public/NewsDetail.php?LogID=8111

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