Progressive Democratic Party (Bangladesh)
Bangladeshi political party From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Progressive Democratic Party (Bengali: প্রগতিশীল গণতান্ত্রিক দল) is a newly established democratic party in Bangladesh. It is popularly known as the PDP. This party was launched on 21 June 2007 though a press conference, as soon as limited indoor political activity was allowed, although open politics was prohibited at that time as the country was still under a state of emergency.[2]
Progressive Democratic Party প্রগতিশীল গণতান্ত্রিক দল | |
|---|---|
| Founder | Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi |
| Founded | 21 June 2007 |
| Headquarters | 8/4-A, Topkhana Road, Dhaka-1000[1] |
| Ideology | Democracy |
| Seats in Jatiya Sangsad | 0 / 350 |
The founder and president of the party, Ferdous Ahmed Qureshi, died at the end of August 2020.[3] The Bangladesh Election Commission cancelled the party's registration in November of that year for not having a functioning central committee or sufficient offices at district and lower levels to maintain registration.[4]
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