Bangladesh Jatiya Party

Bangladesh Jatiya Party বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় পার্টি
Abbreviation	BJP
Chairman	Andaleeve Rahman Partho
Secretary-General	Abdul Matin Saud
Founder	Naziur Rahman Manzur
Split from	Jatiya Party (Ershad)
Headquarters	50 D.I.T. Extension Road, Ishtarnabhit, Naya Paltan, Dhaka[1]
Ideology	Bangladeshi Conservatism Islamic democracy
Political position	Centre-right
Colours
MPs in Jatiya Sangsad	Parliament dissolved
Mayors in City Corporations	0 / 12
Councillors in City Corporations	1 / 640
Chairmen’s in District Councils	0 / 64
Chairmen’s in Subdistrict Councils	0 / 495
Chairmen’s in Union Councils	0 / 4,554
Election symbol
"Cow-cart"
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The Bangladesh Jatiya Party (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় পার্টি, lit. 'Bangladesh National Party'), simply known as BJP, is a centre-right conservative 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 freedom fighter in the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and served as the Local Government and Rural Development Minister and Mayor of Dhaka City Corporation under the Ershad 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.