Manoranjan Shill Gopal

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Manoranjan Shill Gopal
মনোরঞ্জন শীল গোপাল
Member of Parliament
for Dinajpur-1
In office
4th term[1]
In office
2005–2006
Preceded byAbdullah Al Kafi
Succeeded byManoranjon Shill Gopal
In office
2008–2014
Preceded byManoranjon Shill Gopal
Succeeded byManoranjon Shill Gopal
In office
2014–2019
Preceded byManoranjon Shill Gopal
Succeeded byManoranjon Shill Gopal
Assumed office
2019
Succeeded byManoranjon Shill Gopal
Personal details
Born (1964-01-01) 1 January 1964 (age 60)
Dinajpur, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
EducationB.A[1]
ProfessionBusiness & Agriculture[1]

Manoranjan Shill Gopal (Bengali: মনোরঞ্জন শীল গোপাল; born 1 January 1964), also known as Gopal, is a Bangladeshi politician who has served as Member of Parliament for Dinajpur-1 since 2005.[2]

Career

Gopal unsuccessfully contested

Jatiyo Sangshad (National Parliament) constituency Dinajpur-1 in 1991 under the National Democratic Party banner, in June 1996 as the Jatiya Party candidate, and in 2001 as the Islami Oikya Jote candidate.[3]

He ran as an independent in the December 2005 by-election for Dinajpur-1, and was elected Member of Parliament with a majority of 62,401 votes.

Bangladesh Awami League, he was re-elected to the seat in the 2008 and 2014 general elections.[5][6]

In September 2017, Gopal was sued by an Awami League activists for renaming Sheikh Mujibur Rahman College to MS Gopal Model College.[7]

In September 2018, Awami League activists declared Gopal unwanted in Dinajpur District in a rally.[8] He was re-elected from Dinajpur-1 as an Awami League candidate in December 2018.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Constituency 06 Dinajpur-1". www.parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  2. ^ "Manoranjan Shill Gopal, MP, as chief guest, distributing". Retrieved 2016-08-06.
  3. ^ "Parliament Election Result of 1991,1996,2001 Bangladesh Election Information and Statistics". Vote Monitor Networks. Archived from the original on 22 December 2008. Retrieved 12 August 2014.
  4. ^ "Manoranjan Shil Gopal (Ind) unofficially elected in Dinajpur-1 by poll". bdnews24. 4 December 2005. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  5. ^ "List of 9th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament (in Bengali).
  6. ^ "List of 10th Parliament Members". Bangladesh Parliament.
  7. ^ "Dinajpur MP sued for renaming Sheikh Mujibur Rahman College to his own". Dhaka Tribune. 2017-09-28. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  8. ^ "Dinajpur AL MP Gopal declared unwelcome in his locality". Dhaka Tribune. 2018-09-06. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  9. ^ "List of 11th Parliament Members Bangla". www.parliament.gov.bd. Retrieved 2021-07-09.