Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh
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Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh
বিকল্প ধারা বাংলাদেশ |
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| Leader | Dr. A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury |
| Founded | March 2004 |
| Headquarters | Bishwa Road, Dhaka |
| Ideology |
Secularism, Social liberalism |
| International affiliation | None |
Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) is a political party in Bangladesh founded by former President of Bangladesh and BNP parliamentarian Dr. A. Q. M. Badruddoza Chowdhury in 2004. Incidentally, Dr Chowdhury is also a founding member of BNP, the party he was ousted from. Abdul Mannan (BDB Secretary General) and recent (BDB Women Vice-President) Rabaya Begum; two of the most deepest asset of BDB play the most vital role by recruiting and managing the party to promote itself towards its objectives. Their party symbol during the polls is the kula (Bengali: কুলা, a handmade winnowing fan). Its current political alignment is ambiguous, and has no seats in the parliament.
The party was conceived by Dr Chowdhury in 2003 after he was forced to abdicate his Presidency. Dr Chowdhury felt the need of a third force in the de facto two-party democracy in Bangladesh. He expressed recruiting civil society members in politics to fight corruption and terrorism and establish good governance in the country through an alternate stream (lit. Bikalpa Dhara) political party. He, along with his son Mahi B. Chowdhury and BNP parliamentarian M A Mannan resigned from BNP to work for the new political party. Dr Chowdhury was the President, with M A Mannan as the secretary-general of the new party formed in March 2004. It had been a strong critic of the government during the time, and most of its members were defects from the ruling BNP. BNP parliamentarian Oli Ahmed too had defected from BNP bringing with him 24 other senior leaders of BNP to form a new party Liberal Democratic Party in which Bikalpa Dhara was merged on 26 October 2006. However, due to some ideological differences LDP was split and Dr. Chowdhury along with his followers went back to form Bikalpa Dhara again in 2007.
Article 70 of the Constitution states that a parliamentarian who defects automatically loses his seat. Since both M A Mannan and Mahi B Chowdhury were ruling party parliamentarians during their defection to Bikalpa Dhara, their seats were vacated and by-elections declared. Both the parliamentarians contested for their own seats again.
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