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Rose Garden Palace, birthplace of the Awami League in 1949. During the post-Mughal era, no political parties existed in the area known as Bangla or Bangal.After the British arrived and established government, the system of political representation (though much later) was adopted in the area of Bangla (Bengal) or introduced in Bengal.
Khalid Ali Mia (21 February 1932 – 2 April 1981) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician. He was elected a member of parliament from undivided Rajshahi-2 in 1973. He was one of the organizers of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. [1] [2]
Gazi Golam Mostafa (Bengali: গাজী গোলাম মোস্তফা; died 19 January 1981) was a Bangladeshi politician and former president and general secretary of the Dhaka city Awami League [1] He was also a member of the East Pakistan provincial assembly.
In 1949, the party was founded as the East Pakistan Awami Muslim League (after 1955 the East Pakistan Awami League) by the Bengali nationalists Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Yar Mohammad Khan and Shamsul Huq, and joined later by Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy who went on to become Prime Minister of Pakistan.
In 1949, Moulana Bhasani discussed the possibility of forming a new political party with disaffected elements of the East Pakistan Muslim League.A committee, headed by Bhashani, as president, and Yar Mohammad Khan, as secretary, was established to organize a June 23 conference, at which the resolution creating the Awami Muslim League was adopted.
Abdur Rahman (died 1981) was a Bangladesh Awami League politician and a member of parliament for Noakhali-5. He was a jute workers union leader. [1] Early life
The 1981 Bangladeshi presidential elections were held on 15 November 1981. The result was a victory for the incumbent acting President Abdus Sattar of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who received 65.5% of the vote, beating his principal challenger Kamal Hossain of the Awami League. Voter turnout was 54.3%.
He became based in Oxford University during the late 1970s as a visiting research fellow. In 1981, he ran as an opposition candidate for president against Abdus Sattar. Hossain fell out with Awami League president Sheikh Hasina during the 1990s, and formed the Gono Forum (People's Forum) party. Hossain has often worked with the United Nations ...