Talk:Awami League

message: I'm not sure how any of these affiliations are justified. What links the Democratic Party of USA, Indian National Congress and the UK Labour Party? The ideologies of these parties are not quite the same. Unless any proof is provided, I'd prefer to remove all such "affiliations". --Ragib 18:33, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: It is really fishy: I don't think even AL claims these affiliations. However, all these parties help AL to some extent or other in real life but that can't be called "affiliation." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 160.39.208.182 (talk • contribs) .
Awami League is well known as democratic party through out the World.Awami leagues branch organisations of Germany,Great Britain,France,Italy and many other EU countries maintain sound relationship with many political parties and social organisations of EU.
In some countries these party activist are very well accepted as local party activist.Due to the Military take Over of 1975 and assassination of Father of the Nation Bango Bhandhu Sk.Mujibur Rahman Awami League have highest number of foreign activist and they all well  organised.Awami League in EU or USA is capable to call a demonstration  and capable to make it  successful in big Cities like New york,Los-Angeles,Dallas,Chicago,Berlin,Paris,London,Madrid,Stockholm.Oslo,Amsterdam,Brussels,Copenhagen,Helsinki,Warsaw,Moscow,Kiev and many other EU  cities and villages even, same is the case with Asia-Pacific countries.In Scandinavian countries,Great Britain and Germany and all most all EU countries AL  party activist are connected the main stream politics.
During the  ruling of  last Care taker Government ,the protest action of AL activists of  the above mentioned countries   were covered by well stabilised International  news media and created enormous pressure to relise  political detainees including our President Sk.Hasina Wazed.EU Awami League created pressure on EU head office in Brussels  in order to create further political pressure on  Bangladesh Military Govt. after 1975 several times .
These series of political activities were only   possible  by   party activist for having  strong ties with the central AL Office of  Bangladesh and AL activist have enough confidence on Party President Sk.Hasina Wazed.She is the source of power and steering of Awami  ideology.The party is very well known and affiliated with British Labour Party,Conservative Parties as well Democrats and Republican in USA.In Germany Awami League is well connected with SPD,CDU,CSU and the Alliance 90 Green party.In Sweden with Social democratic party.The Austrian and Greece  Awami League are two strongest base of EU AL.If some one need any help,the party activist will be too glad to help any one  regardless to their party origin,religion etc.AL activists  help gladly Bangladesh Citizen but other citizen can seek help from AL  activist through out Europe and North America.
One who has written the above article must be very busy with his education or business or some thing else.
The current Awami League is bigger than ever before and are affiliated with many many organisations of the World.The party activist are well organised and are getting bigger and united  day by day..........
If these are not enough then for further documentary evidence please contact  AL Head Office in Bangladesh
--Frankfurt55 (talk) 01:33, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  International affiliation 

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thread_title:  Rapid Action Battalion 

message: Edited the previous one into a more comprehensive one. --ChaudhryAzan (talk) 16:02, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction 

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message: I ENTERED THE OFFICIAL WEB SITE OF BANGLADESH AWAMI LEAGUE,I WANTED TO SEE THE LIST OF ELECTED PARLIAMENT MEMBERS OF 1996 ELECTIONS WITH FULL INFORMATION,ie LIST WITH BIO & PICTURE.I HAVE A RELATIVE WHO WAS ELECTED PARLIAMENT MEMBER IN 1996 ELECTIONS,BUT I WAS DISAPPOINTED NOT TO FIND HIM OR HIS PICTURE.MPs WHO HAVE HELPED MADE AWAMI LEAGUE WINNER IN 1996 AFTER SO LONG TIME SHOULD GET MORE CREDIT.THEIR NAMES,PICTURES & SHORT BIO WOULD GIVE THEM SATISFACTION & HONOR.  
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JEWEL  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.200.63.140 (talk) 16:31, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  insufficient information on AL page 

message: History of 1976- 1981 is missing .Also History about the leaders of that period /time who were the true trusted friend and followers of 
Our Father of the nation & Bangobondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.(e.g.Late Mrs.Zohra Taj uddin ,Late Abdul Malek Ukil (X President
 Bangladesh Awami league)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.223.94.184 (talk) 00:04, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year 1976 -1981 

message: While today's AL has no idealogy, removing social liberalism and social democracy from the infobox is unacceptable and politically motivated. Keep in mind, this party was once the region's leading liberal democratic force aside from the Congress in India.--Uck22 (talk) 18:11, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idealogy in infobox 

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message: If there's Bengali text, what sense does it make to say "translated from Urdu"? --Salma Mahmoud (talk) 23:15, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Bengali text is there for Transliteration, not for Translation. Awami/Awam both are Urdu words, nerver adopted or used by Bengalis for common people or general public. 
What was quite funny though was the fact that some Awami League ( was founded as All Pakistan Awami Muslim League in Dhaka, the capital of the then Pakistani province of East Bengal) politicians criticise ‘Zindabad’ word for its urdu origin but their party bear a urdu name  and awami party  flag also bears a close resemblance to the flag of Pakistan!! in 2011; a survey also found that most of  Bangladeshis even don't know the meaning of awam. ;-))))---Gaurh (talk) 10:25, 23 August 2016 (UTC)

text: Its only there for transliteration now because you've edited it to say so. Either way, your proposition still doesn't make any sense because I'm pretty sure that "league" isn't a Bengali word either; so its quite redundant to include "translated from Urdu" in the lead paragraph of an article about a Bengali party that, as you've pointed out, wants to distance themselves from Urdu. --Salma Mahmoud (talk) 20:20, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Indeed "league" isn't a Bengali word but "adopted urdu" (loan) word () () borrowings from English language. You can ask or may request awami politicians to rename their party! If possible, start RFC, good luck!—Gaurh (talk) 09:18, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Bengali Translation of "Bangladesh Awami League" is "বাংলাদেশ গণসংঘ" Bānlādēśa gaṇasaṅgha- "Bangladesh Ganasangha"—Gaurh (talk) 00:17, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unexplained removal 

message: As a result of a recent minor dispute, the last true ideology (outside of nationalist and patriotic tendencies) has been removed. It would however be nice to have a proper ideology with a functional source present to accurately describe the party. Such sources needs to mention the ideologies themselves, and being member of an organization does not guarantee a certain ideology. As for the source itself, it must be considered reliable. It doesn't really matter what language it is written in, though english would be prefeered because this is english wikipedia. If anyone were to find a source backing the position as well, that would be highly appreciated! Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 17:58, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Ideology and position in infobox

message: According to the party and sources it is AL, therefore we should use that.Vinegarymass911 (talk) 13:06, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: AL is acceptable as long as it is sourced, but no way does the abbreviation need 12 sources, all put in the lead! About 2-4 could be put besides the abbreviation in the infobox and that would be enough! Having 12 sources for just the abbreviation alone is quite over-excessive, but perhaps some of the sources recently added might have other uses in the article instead? Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 14:28, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

text: I think your proposed version of the first sentence is a good idea. Having urdu in the article is a bit weird though considering it is not an official language in Bangladesh. According to the article about the country, 98% speaks bengali or "bangla". Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 15:20, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Awami is a Urdu word, it has no meaning in Bangla, which is why it says translated from Urdu. The English meaning should be present because it is an English Language encyclopedia. Vinegarymass911 (talk) 15:35, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: @Vinegarymass911, @Worldbruce I Think Awami League, this political organizations name is Bangladesh Awami League according their official website. Ref: https://albd.org/, This should be changes. Is it? Prodipto Deloar (Talk • Contribute) 05:20, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Huh? I can't understand what you're asking or proposing. --Worldbruce (talk) 06:04, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @Worldbruce I propose that This article name change with Bangladesh Awami League name. Prodipto Deloar (Talk • Contribute) 06:09, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it should not be changed. "Awami League" is the WP:COMMONNAME of the party, so that's what the name of the article should be. "Bangladesh Awami League" is the official name of the party, which is why it appears in the first sentence. --Worldbruce (talk) 06:31, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: AL or BAL

message: The first sentence has become unwieldy. Setting aside the question of references for a moment, I suggest the text be changed from:
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The revised construction borrows from good article Progress Party (Norway), another political party whose common abbreviation (FrP) is not necessarily intuitive from their full English name. The change would better serve our readers and better align with policies and guidelines. 
* Omitting the translation from Urdu: According to MOS:LEAD, the lead should summarize the body with appropriate weight. The Urdu translation doesn't appear in the body, so it shouldn't appear in the lead. Perhaps it should be added to the body, but even if it were, it wouldn't belong in the lead because it isn't one of the most important points about the party, any more than it's essential that the linguistic root of the name "Labour Party" is Latin or "Democratic Party" is Greek.
* Omitting the common shortening to Awami League: Much as with MOS:INITIALS for people or the legal status suffix for companies, it is not necessary to explain that Bangladesh Awami League is usually called Awami League. That is an obvious shortening and from the article title being "Awami League" it's plain that it is common.
Returning to the question of references, scholarly works are preferred. I earlier offered: Fukui, Haruhiro (1985) Political parties of Asia and the Pacific. Greenwood Press. p. 39, 41-42. If that it still considered unacceptable, then perhaps: Day, Alan John (2002) Political Parties of the World. John Harper (or the 2009 edition by Sagar, D. J.). I'm reluctant to use a source without consulting the full text, which I will not be able to do for a while, but a Google snippet of page 38 suggests that it might serve. If the official-ness of the abbreviation is the sticking point, then perhaps https://www.thedailystar.net/bangladesh-national-election-2018/re-elect-awami-league-keep-progress-pm-sheikh-hasina-1676386 would help, since it quotes the leader of the party for the past 38 years calling it "AL". 
If consensus can be reached on the first sentence, then I believe it will be fairly easy to reach a consensus on the infobox. --Worldbruce (talk) 06:40, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I think your proposed version of the first sentence is a good idea. Having urdu in the article is a bit weird though considering it is not an official language in Bangladesh. According to the article about the country, 98% speaks bengali or "bangla". Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 15:20, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Awami is a Urdu word, it has no meaning in Bangla, which is why it says translated from Urdu. The English meaning should be present because it is an English Language encyclopedia. Vinegarymass911 (talk) 15:35, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: @Vinegarymass911, @Worldbruce I Think Awami League, this political organizations name is Bangladesh Awami League according their official website. Ref: https://albd.org/, This should be changes. Is it? Prodipto Deloar (Talk • Contribute) 05:20, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Huh? I can't understand what you're asking or proposing. --Worldbruce (talk) 06:04, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @Worldbruce I propose that This article name change with Bangladesh Awami League name. Prodipto Deloar (Talk • Contribute) 06:09, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it should not be changed. "Awami League" is the WP:COMMONNAME of the party, so that's what the name of the article should be. "Bangladesh Awami League" is the official name of the party, which is why it appears in the first sentence. --Worldbruce (talk) 06:31, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: First sentence

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message: There are so many organization for a political party, specially when the party is ruling. I think this is not independent organization. Nahid Hossain (talk) 08:50, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It is new concept, one and only political party Think tank in BD and quite common in Europe and American countries. that's why you people may knew not. You people are used to know only chhata dol and matha league, which are different cheap things. so stop with lame excuse!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A0A:A541:3AD0:0:A5FA:92B6:FF1C:9F95 (talk) 20:37, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

text: Support should be merged. ~ Nahid Talk 10:51, 19 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

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message: @Helper201 I think the best will be to add in the ideology section of the Infobox is Social liberalism, secularism, environmentalism and pro-Indianism. We have some reliable sources to justify these. Most of the South Asian parties have dual nature: ideological & pragmatic. Most often, these policies contradict each other (Exception: Indian National Congress). Though AL is pragmatically authoritarian & sightly moderate Islamist, it's more liberal & secular than it's archrival BNP in ideological course. It's not Bengali nationalist anymore, coz it doesn't anymore promote Bengali reunification. Moreover, it works for the rights of Jumma people, notably Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord & addition of the article concerning the tribal rights in the Constitution. Wiki N Islam (talk) 05:25, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: , disagree, I think we should keep things as they are. I've outlined the multiple issues with the claims of social liberalism and secularism in the above discussion. We don't rate parties on how they differ from their rivals but how they are defined on an international fact-based analysis. The nuanced nature of the main text which describes and makes clear how the party self-defines is a good compromise here. Helper201 (talk) 11:42, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: we can't keep it hide for a long time. We have to come to a consensus about the ideology. AL isn't Bengali nationalist for sure. So it's either be considered as secular or liberal. Most of the local third-party source describes AL secular. More reliable sources can be found also. Wiki N Islam (talk) 09:22, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ideology 

message: Hi dear,
there are some users that are making up false assumptions that Awami league is right wing when it stands for opposite. Awami league does not stand for muslim league and even was behind the liberation of bangladesh. Awami league bought back secularism in bangladesh and intended to destroy religious fanatics. Once again, i have provided valuable information as well as enough evidence to support claim that Awami league isnt right wing and defiantly stands for left wing. 
 2607:FEA8:A75B:7100:5A4:16B3:2839:64DB (talk) 16:12, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awami leaague is not a right wing party at all