Bangladesh Nationalist Front

Bangladesh Nationalist Front বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী ফ্রন্ট
Abbreviation	BNF
President	S.M. Abul Kalam Azad
Founder	Nazmul Huda
Founded	2012; 12 years ago (2012)
Split from	Bangladesh Nationalist Party
Headquarters	Dhaka
National affiliation	Grand Alliance
Seats in the Jatiya Sangsad	0 / 300
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Bangladesh Nationalist Front is a political party in Bangladesh. Former member of parliament for Dhaka-17 Abul Kalam Azad is the party's chairman.^[1]

History

Nazmul Huda founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Front in August 2012 after resigning from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on 6 June 2012. Abul Kamal Azad, member-secretary, expelled Huda from the Bangladesh Nationalist Front.^[2] The Front was registered with the Bangladesh Election Commission in 2015.^[3] In 2015, during talks with President Abdul Hamid over the next election, the Bangladesh Nationalist Front proposed that the Election Commission Secretariat be scrapped.^[4]

Election results

Jatiya Sangsad elections

Election	Party leader	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position	Government
2014	S.M. Abul Kalam Azad	107,990	0.63%	1 / 300	New	7th	Coalition
2018		13,289	0.02%	0 / 300	1	21st	Extra-parliamentary

References

1. "Furore in Parliament after BNF demands Ershad's office moved out of Banani". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
2. "'Trinomul BNP' Huda's new party". The Daily Star. 21 November 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
3. "Time slipping away: CEC". The Daily Star. 4 December 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
4. "BNF for scrapping EC secretariat". The Daily Star. 29 December 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2018.