Bangladesh Nationalist party-BNP North Bengal

It was
founded on 1 September 1978 by former
Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman after the
Presidential election of 1978, with a view to
uniting the people with nationalist ideology of
the country.The party holds 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.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.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. And since 9 February,
2018 Tarique Rahman is the acting chairman of
the party....