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Tahmid Abdullah

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

Student casualty associated with the shutdown-phase confrontation in Dhaka.

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Tahmid Al Mudabbir

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Tariqul Islam

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Umama Fatema

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Wasim Akram

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

Chattogram-linked student casualty cited in early crackdown reports.

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Yamin

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

MIST student casualty whose death circulated widely across social media.

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Zaber Ahmed

CoordinatorPerson

Coordinator (Students Against Discrimination)

Part of the distributed coordinator network beyond a few national spokespersons.

Named in publicly reported coordination structures of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement during July-August 2024.

Movement committee expansion reports (including 158-member coordination announcement on 3 August 2024).

Represents institution-level and region-level organizing that sustained the nationwide protest network.

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Zafar Sobhan

LeaderPerson

Influential Supporters & Intellectuals

Part of the wider civic-information ecosystem surrounding the uprising.

During the 2024 uprising period, this figure was publicly associated with commentary, advocacy, reporting, or civic support aligned with protest concerns.

Public discourse around accountability, rights, and governance transition in 2024.

Helped shape public interpretation, documentation, or civic momentum around the movement.

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Zahid Hossain

MartyrPerson

Symbolic martyrs

Remembered in movement memory as part of the human cost of the crackdown.

Public reporting during July 2024 documented this person as a protest-period fatality.

July uprising casualty narratives and memorial references.

Young protest casualty linked to Jatrabari-area clashes.

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Zulkarnain Saer

LeaderPerson

Grassroots & Digital Influencer

Part of the wider civic-information ecosystem surrounding the uprising.

During the 2024 uprising period, this figure was publicly associated with commentary, advocacy, reporting, or civic support aligned with protest concerns.

Public discourse around accountability, rights, and governance transition in 2024.

Helped shape public interpretation, documentation, or civic momentum around the movement.

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AB Party

OrganizationParty

Political Party in Bangladesh

The party emerged in the post-2018 opposition realignment and participates in contemporary electoral and reform debates.

Recent opposition restructuring, election-system reform demands, and coalition-building before national elections.

Its participation reflects fragmentation and renewal attempts within Bangladesh’s opposition spectrum.

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Akhtar Ahmed

LeaderPerson

Election Commission senior secretary

The EC's operational secretary during the vote and certification process.

He handled the operational side of the 2026 election, including turnout reporting and the official gazette process.

Election Commission operations during and after the 13th parliamentary election.

He helped translate the commission's decisions into the formal administrative record.

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AMM Nasir Uddin

LeaderPerson

Chief Election Commissioner

The top election official who framed the poll as transparent and orderly.

He oversaw the 2026 parliamentary election and publicized the commission's commitment to transparency and order.

Election Commission leadership during Bangladesh's 13th parliamentary election.

He became the public face of election administration and result certification.

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Andaleeve Rahman Partho

LeaderPerson

Chairman of Bangladesh Jatiya Party

A parliament voice pressing NCP on reform politics.

He represented a smaller parliamentary voice that engaged NCP and reform politics during the 2026 election period.

Parliamentary reform debates and election-linked coalition politics in 2026.

He became a visible advocate for constitutional debate inside the new parliament.

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Badiul Alam Majumdar

LeaderPerson

Chief of the Election Reform Commission

The reform commission's most visible public face.

He led the Election Reform Commission and helped frame the 2026 election around transparency, procedure, and institutional trust.

Election reform debates after the 2024 uprising and before the 13th parliamentary election.

He became a central reform voice shaping election administration and legal debate.

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Bangladesh Jatiya Party

OrganizationParty

Political Party in Bangladesh

A smaller party linked here to Andaleeve Rahman Partho and post-2024 electoral reform debates.

Bangladesh Jatiya Party appears in the repo's contemporary election context through Andaleeve Rahman Partho and smaller-party reform debates.

Post-1990 parliamentary politics, smaller-party coalition bargaining, and the 2026 election period.

Its presence highlights how smaller parties and parliamentary voices participate in Bangladesh's coalition, opposition, and reform politics.

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Barrister Asaduzzaman Fuaad

LeaderPerson

General secretary of AB Party

A reform-era challenger who made campaign financing public.

He contested the 2026 election and became known for a highly visible campaign funding appeal and reform-oriented politics.

AB Party campaigning in the 2026 parliamentary election.

He showed how smaller parties tried to build visibility and funding through social media-led campaigning.

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Fazlur Rahman

LeaderPerson

BNP leader and freedom fighter

A veteran BNP figure who won decisively in the 2026 vote.

He won Kishoreganj-4 in the 2026 election and became one of the prominent BNP figures returning to parliament.

Kishoreganj-4 contest in the 2026 parliamentary election.

His victory added senior BNP wartime legitimacy to the party's parliamentary comeback.

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Islami Andolan Bangladesh

OrganizationParty

Islamist Political Party in Bangladesh

A major Islamist electoral party in contemporary Bangladesh politics.

Islami Andolan Bangladesh is a major Islamist electoral party whose presence matters in post-1990 and post-2024 debates on voting, representation, and religious politics.

Bangladesh electoral politics, Islamist party competition, and reform debates around the 2026 election.

Its inclusion makes the contemporary party directory less centered only on the largest parties and captures an important Islamist electoral current.

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Mahdi Amin

LeaderPerson

BNP Central Election Steering Committee spokesperson

BNP's public face during the results-counting phase.

He served as one of BNP's main campaign spokespersons during the 2026 election and publicly projected confidence in the party's victory.

BNP election office operations and results messaging in February 2026.

He shaped the party's immediate post-election narrative and public messaging.

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