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Gamo Azadi League
President Iskandar Mirza
Founder Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish
Founded1976

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 Iskandar Mirza. [2] The party is a member of the centre-left 11-Party Alliance. [3]

The party was briefly allied with the Awami League in the 1980s. [4]

In the 2001 parliamentary elections the party ran three candidates, in the 3 Nowabganj constituencies[ citation needed]. 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%)[ citation needed].

References

  1. ^ Chowdhury, Mahfuzul H. (2003). Democratization in South Asia: lessons from American institutions. Ashgate Publishing. p. 118. ISBN  978-0-7546-3423-2.
  2. ^ Day, Alan John (1988). Political parties of the world. Longman. p.  45. ISBN  978-0-582-02626-1.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2009.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)
  4. ^ "Bangladesh - Awami League". countrystudies.us. Retrieved 21 January 2022.