Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh

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Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh or Bikalpadhara Bangladesh ( BDB , Bengali বিকল্পধারা বাংলাদেশ , 'Alternative for Bangladesh') is a small party in Bangladesh .

history

Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh was founded on May 8, 2004 by AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury and his son Mahi B. Chowdhury. Badruddoza Chowdhury was previously a member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). On November 14, 2001, he took over the office of President of Bangladesh, but had to resign on June 21, 2002 after he was expressed mistrust within the party. In the aftermath, Chowdhury became increasingly critical of the BNP's policies and publicly expressed the view that Bangladesh needed a third political force (alongside the BNP and Awami League ), including members of civil society , to “remove corruption and terrorism from the country and ensure good government ”. Ultimately, this led to Chowdhury's resignation from the BNP and the establishment of BDB. After it was founded, a few BNP politicians and individual supporters of the Islamist Islami Oikya Jote , one of the BNP's coalition partners, joined the new party.

On October 26, 2006, BDB merged with the Liberal Democratic Party . However, this union did not last. On October 1, 2007, the LDP split and the BDB re-emerged as a party under Badruddoza's leadership. In the parliamentary elections in 2008 , the BDB ran as part of an alliance of small parties, the Jukto Front , but did not win any constituency. In the following parliamentary election in 2014 , BDB joined the election boycott by the BNP.

In the run-up to the 2018 parliamentary elections , there were internal party disputes. In October 2018, a faction that wanted to join the BNP-led Jatiya Oikya Front split off .

On December 4, 2017, a new Jukta Front was formed , an alliance of four small parties led by BDB. This alliance was expanded to include a further seven small parties on November 1, 2018 and then concluded an electoral alliance with the Awami League on November 13, 2018 as part of a grand alliance . In an agreement dated December 8, 2018, the Awami League agreed to support the BDB candidates in three constituencies ( Munshiganj-1 , Lakshmipur-4 and Maulvibazar-2 ) in the general election on December 30, 2018. The other parties on the Jukta Front received nothing . BDB won the first two constituencies mentioned in the election.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Faruque Ahmed: Bengal Politics in Britain . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4802-0794-3 , chap. 8: Politics of Disintegration: Bikalpadhara Bangladesh, p. 225 (English, Google Books preview ).
  2. ↑ Refugee Review Tribunal: AUSTRALIA RRT RESEARCH RESPONSE. (pdf) October 19, 2006, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ LDP now Bikolpa Dhara again. The Daily Star, October 2, 2007, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  4. ^ Statement of the NDI election observer delegation to Bangladesh's 2008 parliamentary elections. (pdf) National Democratic Institute (NDI), December 31, 2008, retrieved on January 8, 2019 (English, members of the Jukto Front were Gano Forum , Bangladesh Kallyan Party, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh, Progressive Democratic Party and Forward Party).
  5. ↑ Nawaz Farhin Antara: Bikalpa Dhara splits into two. Dhaka Tribune, October 19, 2018, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ New alliance 'Juktafront' FORMED, B Chowdhury made convener. Daily Sun, December 1, 2017, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ 7 political parties join Bikalpa Dhara-led Juktofront. The Daily Star, November 1, 2018, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Juktofront to join polls under AL-led grand alliance. Daily Bagladesh, November 13, 2018, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  9. ^ Mohammad Al-Masum Molla: AL alliance ticket for 3 BDB leaders. The Daily Star, December 8, 2018, accessed January 10, 2019 .