Bangladesh National Party
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party
বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল |
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| Chairperson | Begum Khaleda Zia |
| Secretary-General | Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir |
| Senior Vice-President | Tarique Rahman |
| Founder | Ziaur Rahman |
| Founded | 1 September 1978 |
| Headquarters | 28/1 Naya Paltan, Dhaka |
| Student wing | Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chatra Dal |
| Ideology | Bangladeshi nationalism Economic liberalism |
| National affiliation | 18 Party Alliance |
| Colors | Green |
| Seats in the Jatiyo Sangshad |
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The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, transliterated: Bangladesh Jātīẏatābādī Dôl), often abbreviated as BNP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties of Bangladesh. It was founded on 1 September 1978 by former Bangladeshi first President Ziaur Rahman after the Presidential election of 1978 with a view to uniting the people with nationalist ideology of the country. Since then, the BNP won the second, fifth, sixth and eighth national elections and two Presidential elections in 1978 and 1981. The party also holds the record of being the largest opposition in the history of parliamentary elections of the country, with 116 seats in the seventh national election of 1996. It does not currently have representation in parliament after its boycott of the national election of 2014 .
The party floated the ideology of Bangladeshi nationalism as its core concept and adopted a 19-point program which declared that "The sovereignty and independence of Bangladesh, golden fruits of the historic liberation struggle, is our sacred trust and inviolable right". The founding manifesto of the BNP claims that the people of Bangladesh want to "..see that all-out faith and confidence in the Almighty Allah, Democracy, Nationalism, and Socialism of social and economic justice are reflected in all spheres of national life". The party is often criticised for violent and consistent oppression of minorities, Hindus, Christians and Buddhists.
BNP was the pioneer force in manpower export that enabled remittance inflow
BNP and its student wing was the driving force in the 1990 uprising against the autocratic Ershad rule that culminated in the fall of the regime and the restoration of democracy in Bangladesh.Begum Khaleda Zia, who served as the party's chairperson from 1983, was elected as the first woman prime minister of Bangladesh, the second in any Muslim country of the world, in 1991.
Begum Khaleda Zia is the Chairperson of the party, with Tarique Rahman as the Senior vice-chairman and Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the Secretary-General.
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