Bangladesh Jatiya Party

The Bangladesh Jatiya Party (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় পার্টি (বিজেপি), lit. 'Bangladesh National Party (BJP)'), simply known as BJP, is a 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 Mukti Bahini member in the Bangladesh War of Independence of 1971 and served as the Local Government and Rural Development Minister and Mayor of Dhaka City Corporation under Ershad's regime. Manzur also served as the secretary general of the Jatiya Party between 1998 and 2001.