Document #1143313
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
Information on the Jana Dal Party is scarce
among the sources consulted by the DIRB.
Please consult the attachments from
Political Parties of the World and Bangladesh: A Country Study for
information on the Jana Dal Party. The former provides information
on both the Jana Dal (Huq) and the Jana Dal (Shahidullah)
parties.
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This Response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of
additional sources consulted in researching this Information
Request.
Attachments
Bangladesh: A Country Study. 1989.
Edited by James Heitzman and Robert L. Worden. Washington, DC:
Secretary of the Army, pp. 176-177.
Political Parties of the World. 1988.
3rd ed. Edited by Alan J. Day. Chicago: St. James Press, p. 52.
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Encyclopedia of the Third World.
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(RIAS), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia. July
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