Bangladesh Jatiya Party

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The Bangladesh Jatiya Party (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় পার্টি, lit. 'Bangladesh National Party'), simply known as BJP, is a political party in Bangladesh. It is a splinter group of the original Jatiya Party, founded by the former President Hossain Mohammad Ershad. It was previously known as Jatiya Party (Naziur), after the late party chairman Naziur Rahman Manzur. Manzur was a Mukti Bahini member in the Bangladesh War of Independence of 1971 and served as the local government and rural development minister and mayor of Dhaka City Corporation under Ershad's regime. Manzur also served as the secretary general of the Jatiya Party between 1998 and 2001. After developing policy differences with Jatiya Party chairman Ershad in early 2001, Manzur formed the Bangladesh Jatiya Party – BJP on 5 August 2001 and maintained the 4-Party Alliance led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). The party secured four electoral seats in the 8th National Parliament.

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