page_title: Hussain Muhammad Ershad
section_title: Legacy and honours
hierarchical_section_title: Hussain Muhammad Ershad / Coup and presidency / Legacy and honours
caption_attribution_description: English: Bangabandhu Bridge, Tangail, Bangladesh. Arman Aziz, the creator of this file, donated it to public domain on August 29, 2006
context_page_description: Hussain Muhammad Ershad was a Bangladeshi Army Chief and politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990, a time many consider to have been a military dictatorship.
  He seized power as head of the army during a bloodless coup against President Abdus Sattar on 24 March 1982. He declared himself President in 1983, and subsequently won the controversial 1986 Bangladeshi presidential election. Despite claims to have legitimately won the 1986 election, many consider his regime as an era of military dictatorship. Ershad served in the Presidential office until 1990, when he was forced to resign following a popular pro-democracy mass uprising led by Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina. Ershad founded the Jatiya Party in 1986 and became a Member of Parliament for that party in the constituency of Rangpur-3 in 1991, with successful re-election in all subsequent general elections.
  During his tenure Ershad pursued devolution reforms, privatization of nationalised industries; the expansion of the national highway system; and the founding of SAARC; he committed his nation's forces as an ally to the United States in the Gulf War.
context_section_description: The Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge Authority (JMBA) was set up by an ordinance promulgated by the then President Ershad on 3 July 1985 to implement the project. For mobilisation of domestic resources, another ordinance was promulgated by which a Jamuna Bridge surcharge and levy were introduced. A total of Tk 5.08 billion was mobilised in the process till its abolition.
  He was honoured twice as a United Nations Laureate during his presidency:
  UN Population Award (1987)
  , in recognition of the campaign for an international convention on the protection and conservation of climate, and other contributions.
caption: Jamuna Bridge
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