page_title: Savar Upazila
section_title: Politics
hierarchical_section_title: Savar Upazila / Politics
caption_attribution_description: English: Jahangirnagar university open theatre at Savar
context_page_description: Savar is an Upazila of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is located at a distance of about 24 kilometres to the northwest of Dhaka city. Savar is mostly famous for Jatiyo Smriti Soudho, the National Monument for the Martyrs of the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
context_section_description: Several Hindu families and some Muslim people ("Hira Lal Sarkar" who was the collector of British Government) played a critical role in the development of the township during the British Raj in the 19th and first half of the 20th century. After partition of India in 1947, the Hindu influence in the area waned following the departure of many prominent Hindu families. The 1960s saw the establishment of some important institutions, including a dairy farm and a University in the area. Concurrently, communist politics was on the rise in the area. However, this was replaced with Bengali nationalist zeal, when the Bangladesh Awami League won the 1970 election in this constituency. In 1975, Savar came to the spotlight when the Maoist leader Shiraj Shikdar was secretly tortured and executed at Savar Cantonment. Savar was politically important to the military dictators of the mid-1970s and 1980s, as the cantonment armory here was the closest one outside the capital.
  From the 1990s to mid-2000s, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate has been routinely elected to parliament from this constituency. However, Bangladesh Awami League and other parties; Communist Party of Bangladesh, Socialist Party of Bangladesh, Worker's Party (Menon), National Awami Party, Sammobady Dal (including several Islamist ones) continue to have grassroots presence. The general election at the end of 2008 saw a Bangladesh Awami League candidate elected to parliament from this constituency. Bangladesh Awami League 3rd time ruling over Bangladesh and also this upozila. By this time people of Savar have their 1st MP who is selected as "State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Dr. 
  Md Enamur Rahman " from 2019 January. Jahangirnagar University and a few colleges in the area serve as a hotbed of active student politics and strife. Foreign dignitaries customarily visit Savar as a part of their trip to Bangladesh to pay respect to the martyrs of 1971 at the Jatiyo Smriti Soudho.
caption: Open theatre at Jahangirnagar University
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