Gano forum

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Gano Forum , also Gono Forum or Gana Forum ( GF , Bengali গণফোরাম , 'People's Forum') is a small party in Bangladesh . Politically, it belongs more to the left spectrum .

history

The party was founded on June 19, 1992 by Kamal Hossain , who has also been the party chairman since then (as of 2019). Hossain had been a supporter of the Awami League before 1992 and had played a not insignificant role in the first two decades after Bangladesh gained independence. He had been involved in drafting the Bangladeshi constitution, later minister in the first government of independent Bangladesh under Mujibur Rahman and the top candidate of the Awami League in the 1981 presidential election. Later critics accused Hossein, however, that he owed all of his political positions exclusively to his close relationship with Mujibur Rahman.

In 1992, after the parliamentary elections that were lost for the Awami League , there were internal party leadership struggles and Hossain's break with the party leader Sheikh Hasina . Hossain left the Awami League with a few others and founded their own party, Gano Forum . When it was founded, the new party proclaimed the establishment of a just and democratic society in Bangladesh and the country's economic development as its goal. Since then, the party has been an essential vehicle for Hossain's political ambitions. In the 20 years between 1992 and 2012, only four party meetings took place, at each of which Kamal Hossain was confirmed as chairman.

In the following two decades after its founding, Gano Forum was never able to win a seat in parliamentary elections. 2001 to 2006 the party was allied with the Awami League. However, the alliance broke up again before the 2008 parliamentary election. In the 2008 general election , Gano Forum took part as part of an alliance of small parties, the Jukto Front , but did not win any constituency. Even after the parliamentary elections in 2014 , she was not represented in parliament.

In the run-up to the 2018 parliamentary election in Bangladesh , the Jatiya Oikya Front (United National Front) was formed on October 13, 2018 , an electoral alliance made up of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and three small parties, including Gano Forum. The BNP agreed to support the GF candidates in six constituencies . Of these, GF was narrowly successful in one ( Maulvibazar-2 ) against the candidate from Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh . In addition, GF won the Sylhet-2 constituency , where the BNP candidate had not been approved by the electoral commission.

After much hesitation, the two elected MPs announced that they would take their MPs on March 7, 2019 and take their seats in the new parliament.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The summaries Ganoforum and Gonoforum are also common.
  2. ↑ a b Faruque Ahmed: Bengal Politics in Britain . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4802-0794-3 , chap. 8: Politics of Disintegration: Gonoforum, p. 223 (English, Google Books preview ).
  3. ^ History. gonoforum.org, accessed January 7, 2019 (a remarkably critical analysis on its own website).
  4. ^ Justice Manik labels Dr Kamal Hossain as a Pakistan collaborator. bdnews24, November 2, 2018, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  5. ^ A b Shah Ali Farhad: The not so conscientious Dr. Kamal Hossain. Bangla Tribune, October 15, 2018, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ↑ Nawaz Farhin Antara: Jatiya Oikya Front: BNP and Dr Kamal chalk out shared political goals. Nawaz Farhin Antara, October 13, 2018, accessed January 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Rashed Ahmed Mitul: BNP to share six seats with Gono Forum. New Age , December 5, 2018, retrieved January 7, 2019 (English, the 6 constituencies were: Dhaka-6 , Dhaka-7 , Pabna-1 , Habiganj-1 , Kurigram-2 and Maulvibazar-2 ).
  9. ^ Atik Rahman Faysal: BNP still confused, JP relaxed in Sylhet-2 seat. December 25, 2018, accessed January 8, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Two Gono Forum MPs-elect to take oath on Mar 7. Dhaka Tribune, March 4, 2019, accessed on March 4, 2019 .