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.

Additional Sources Consulted

Communist and Marxist Parties of the World. 1990.

DIRB. November 1995. Contextual Information Package: Bangladesh.

_____. November 1995. Human Rights Information Package: Bangladesh.

_____. May 1994. Bangladesh: Political Parties and Political Violence.

Encyclopedia of the Third World. 1992.

Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties. Yearly. 1993, 1995.

Political Handbook of the World. Yearly. 1992, 1995.

Political Parties of Asia and the Pacific. 1985.

Political Parties of the World. 1984.

Refugees, Immigration and Asylum Section (RIAS), Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia. July 1994. Country Profile: Bangladesh.

State of Human Rights in Bangladesh. Yearly. 1993, 1994, 1995. Dhaka: Bangladesh Manobadhikar Samonnoy Parishad (BMSP)/Coordinating Council for Human Rights in Bangladesh (CCHRB).

Tepper, Elliot L. March 1996. Bangladesh in Human Rights Perspectives.

World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Political Parties. 1987.

On-line search of media sources.

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