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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bangladeshi revolutionary and statesman (–)
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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman[c] (17 March &#;– 15 August ), also known by the honorific Bangabandhu,[d] was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist, who was the founding president of Bangladesh.[e] As one of the founding leaders of Bangladesh, he had held continuous positions, Initially he served as the president of the Awami League, later as the president of Bangladesh, and then as the prime minister of Bangladesh until his assassination in August [f] His nationalist ideology, socio-political theories, and political doctrines are collectively known as Mujibism.
Born in an aristocratic Muslim family in Tungipara, Mujib emerged as a student activist in the province of Bengal during the final years of the British Raj. He was a member of the All India Muslim League. He supported Muslim nationalism and had a Pakistani establishmentalist outlook in his early political career. In , he was part of a liberal, secular and left-wing faction which later became the Awami League.
In the s, he was elected to Pakistan's parliament where he defended the rights of East Bengal. Mujib served 13 years in prison during the British Raj and Pakistani rule.[11]
By the s, Mujib adopted Bengali nationalism and became the undisputed leader of East Pakistan soon. He became popular for opposing political, ethnic and institutional discrimination; leading the six-point autonomy movement; and challenging the regime of President Ayub Khan.
In , he led the Awami League to win Pakistan's first general election. When the Pakistani military junta refused to transfer power, he gave the 7th March speech and announced an independence movement. During the Bangladesh Liberation War in , Mujib declared Bangladesh's independence.[12][13] Bengali nationalists declared him as the head of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh, while he was confined in a jail in West Pakistan.[14]
After the independence of Bangladesh, Mujib returned to Bangladesh in January as the leader of a war-devastated country.[15] In the following years, he played an important role in rebuilding Bangladesh, constructing a secular constitution for the country, transforming Pakistani era state apparatus, bureaucracy, armed forces, and judiciary into an independent state, initiating the first general election and normalizing diplomatic ties with most of the world.
His foreign policy during the time was dominated by the principle "friendship to all and malice to none". He remained a close ally to Gandhi's India and Brezhnev's Soviet Union, while balancing ties with the United States. He gave the first Bengali speech to the UN General Assembly in
Mujib's government proved largely unsuccessful in curbing political and economic anarchy and corruption in post-independence Bangladesh, which ultimately gave rise to a left-wing insurgency.
To quell the insurgency, he formed Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini, a special paramilitary force similar to the Gestapo,[16] which was involved in various human rights abuses, massacres, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and rapes. Mujib's five-year regime was the only socialist period in Bangladesh's history,[17] which was marked with huge economic mismanagement and failure, leading to the high mortality rate in the deadly famine of In , he launched the Second Revolution, under which he installed a one party regime and abolished all kinds of civil liberties and democratic institutions, by which he "institutionalized autocracy" and made himself the "unimpeachable" President of Bangladesh, effectively for life, which lasted for seven months.[18][19] On 15 August , he was assassinated with most of his family members in his Dhanmondi 32 residence in a coup d'état.
Sheikh Mujib's post-independence legacy remains divisive among Bangladeshis due to his economic mismanagement, the famine of , human rights violations, and authoritarianism. Nevertheless, most Bangladeshis credit him for leading the country to independence in and restoring the Bengali sovereignty after over two centuries following the Battle of Plassey in , for which he is honoured as Bangabandhu (lit.&#;'Friend of Bengal').[10][20] He was voted as the Greatest Bengali of all time in the BBC opinion poll.[21] His 7 March speech in is recognized by UNESCO for its historic value, and was listed in the Memory of the World Register.[22] Many of his diaries and travelogues were published many years after his death and have been translated into several languages.[23]
Early life and background
Family and parents
Main article: Tungipara Sheikh family
See also: Birthday of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Mujib was born on 17 March into the Bengali Muslim aristocratic Sheikh family of the village of Tungipara in Gopalganj sub-division of Faridpur district in the province of Bengal in British India.[24][25] His father Sheikh Lutfur Rahman was a sheristadar (law clerk) in the courthouse of Gopalganj; Mujib's mother Sheikh Sayera Khatun was a housewife.
Mujib's father Sheikh Lutfur Rahman was a Taluqdar in Tungipara, owning landed property, around Bighas of cultivable land.[26] His clan's ancestors were Zamindars of Faridpur Mahakumar, however due to successive turns in the family fortune over generations had turned them middle class.[27] The Sheikh clan of Tungipara were of Iraqi Arab descent, being descended from Sheikh Abdul Awal Darwish of Baghdad, who had come to preach Islam in the Mughal era.[29] His lineage is; Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, son of Sheikh Lutfar Rahman, son of Sheikh Abdul Hamid, son of Sheikh Mohammad Zakir, son of Sheikh Ekramullah, son of Sheikh Borhanuddin, son of Sheikh Jan Mahmud, son of Sheikh Zahiruddin, son of Sheikh Abdul Awal Darwish.[30] Mujib was the eldest son and third child in the family of four daughters (Fatima, Achia, Helen, Laili) and two sons (Mujib, Naser).[24] His parents nicknamed him "Khoka".[31]
Childhood
As a child, Mujib was described as "compassionate and very energetic".
Either playing or roaming around. Feeding birds, monkeys and dogs.[32] In his autobiography, Mujib mentions, "I used to play football, volleyball and field hockey.
See full list on survivor.fandom.com Rather than buy British-manufactured clothes, he began to use a portable spinning wheel to produce his own cloth. By the time he arrived 24 days later in the coastal town of Dandi, the ranks of the marchers swelled, and Gandhi broke the law by making salt from evaporated seawater. When a European magistrate in Durban asked him to take off his turban, he refused and left the courtroom. In , year-old Gandhi sailed for London, England, to study law.Although I was not a very good player but still had a good position in the school team. At this time I was not interested in politics."[32] Once the farmers in his village lost their crops and faced a near-famine situation, which had a great impact on Mujib. During these days, he usually used to distribute rice among the poor farmers and students from his own or collecting from others.[32]
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Mujib was enrolled in Gimadanga Primary School in In , he entered the third grade of Gopalganj Public School.
His parents transferred him to Madaripur Islamia High School after two years. Mujib withdrew from school in to undergo eye surgery. He returned to formal education after four years owing to the severity of the surgery and slow recovery. Mujib was 18 years old when he was married to eight years old Fazilatunnesa, widely known in Bangladesh as Begum Mujib, in an arranged marriage, according to the custom of the region at that time.
They are second cousins.[36][38][39]
Mujib began showing signs of political leadership around this time. At the Gopalganj Missionary School, Mujib's political passion was noticed by Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, who was visiting the area along with A. K.
Fazlul Huq. Mujib passed out from the Gopalganj Missionary School in [9]
United Bengal politics (–)
Mujib moved to Calcutta for higher education. At the time, Calcutta was the capital of British Bengal and the largest city in undivided India. He studied liberal arts, including political science,[9] at the erstwhile Islamia College of Calcutta and lived in Baker Hostel.[40][41] Islamia College was one of the leading educational institutions for the Muslims of Bengal.
He obtained his bachelor's degree from the college in [24]
Muslim League activism
See also: Partition of India
During his time in Calcutta, Sheikh Mujib became involved in the politics of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League, the All India Muslim Students Federation, the Indian independence movement and the Pakistan movement.
In , he was elected as a councillor of the Muslim League.
In , he was elected as secretary of the Faridpur District Association, a Calcutta-based association of residents from Faridpur. In , at the height of the Pakistan movement, Mujib was elected as General Secretary of the Islamia College Students Union in Calcutta. His political mentor Suhrawardy led the center-left faction of the Muslim League.
Suhrawardy was responsible for creating 36 trade unions in Bengal, including unions for sailors, railway workers, jute and cotton mills workers, rickshaw pullers, cart drivers and other working class groups.[43] Mujib assisted Suhrawardy in these efforts and also worked to ensure protection for Muslim families during the violent days in the run up to partition.[citation needed]
United Bengal Movement
See also: United Bengal and Partition of Bengal ()
In , Sheikh Mujib also joined the "United Bengal Movement" which was organized under the leadership of Suhrawardy, Abul Hashim, Sarat Chandra Bose and others to form an undivided independent Bengal outside the jurisdiction of India and Pakistan.[44] Later, when the creation of the states of India and Pakistan was confirmed, a referendum was held to decide the fate of the Bengali Muslim-dominated Sylhet District of Assam Province.
Sheikh Mujib worked as an organizer and campaigner for inclusion in Pakistan in the Sylhet referendum. He went to Sylhet from Calcutta with about workers. In his autobiography, he expressed his displeasure about the non-adherence of Karimganj to Pakistan despite winning the referendum and the various geographical inadequacies of East Pakistan during the demarcation of the partition.[45]
Student of law
After the partition of India, Mujib was admitted into the Law Department of the University of Dhaka.
The university was created in as a residential university modelled on Oxford and Cambridge where students would be affiliated with colleges; but its residential character was dramatically changed after partition and students became affiliated with departments.[46][47] Mujib suffered repeated bouts of police detention due to his ability to instigate opposition protests against the Pakistani government.
His political activities were targeted by the government and police. In , Mujib was expelled from Dhaka University on charges of inciting employees against the university. After 61 years, in , the university withdrew its famously politically motivated expulsion order.[24][48][49]
Struggle for Bengali rights (–)
See also: Bengali nationalism
Mujib emerged as a major opposition figure in Pakistani politics between and He represented the Bengali grassroots.
He had an uncanny ability to remember people by their first name regardless of whether they were political leaders, workers, or ordinary citizens.
Mujib founded the Muslim Students League on 4 January as the student wing of the Muslim League in East Bengal. This organisation later transformed into the Bangladesh Chhatra League. During the visit of Governor General Muhammad Ali Jinnah to Dhaka, it was declared that Urdu will be the sole national language of Pakistan. This sparked the Bengali Language Movement.
Mujib became embroiled in the language movement, as well as left-wing trade unionism among Bengali factions of the Muslim League. Bengali factions eventually split away and formed the Awami Muslim League in [citation needed]
Mujib was arrested many times. His movements were tracked by spies of the Pakistani government.
He was accused of being a secessionist and an agent of India. East Pakistan's Intelligence Branch compiled many secret reports on his movements and political activities. The secret documents have been declassified by the Bangladeshi government. The formerly classified reports have also been published.[50]
Founding of the Awami League
The All Pakistan Awami Muslim League was founded on 23 June at the Rose Garden mansion on K.
M. Das Lane in Old Dhaka, which was organized by Yar Mohammad Khan and Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani.[51] Sheikh Mujib was elected as one of its joint secretaries.[51] The term "Muslim" was later dropped from the party's nomenclature. The Awami League sought to represent both Muslims and Pakistan's religious minorities, including Bengali Hindus and Pakistani Christians.
Hence, it dropped "Muslim" from its name to appeal to the minority votebanks.
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Suhrawardy joined the party within a few years and became its main leader. He relied on Sheikh Mujib to organise his political activities in East Bengal. Mujib became Suhrawardy's political protégé. Prior to partition, Suhrawardy mooted the idea of an independent United Bengal. But in Pakistan, Suhrawardy reportedly preferred to preserve the unity of Pakistan in a federal framework; while Mujib supported autonomy and was open to the idea of East Bengali independence.
Mujib reportedly remarked that "[t]he Bengalis had initially failed to appreciate a leader of Mr. Suhrawardy's stature. By the time they learned to value him, they had run out of time".[52] At the federal level, the Awami League was led by Suhrawardy. At the provincial level, the League was led by Sheikh Mujib who was given a free rein over the party's activities by Suhrawardy.
Mujib consolidated his control of the party. The Awami League veered away from the left-wing extremism of its founding president Maulana Bhashani. Under Suhrawardy and Mujib, the Awami League emerged as a centre-left party.
Language Movement
Main article: Bengali language movement
The Awami League strongly backed the Bengali Language Movement.
Bengalis argued that the Bengali language deserved to be a federal language on par with Urdu because Bengalis formed the largest ethnic group in Pakistan. The movement appealed to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan to declare both Urdu and Bengali as national languages, in addition to English. During a conference in Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall, Sheikh Mujib was instrumental in establishing the All-Party State Language Action Committee.
He was repeatedly arrested during the movement. When he was released from jail in , he was greeted by a rally of the State Language Struggle Committee.[54] Mujib announced a nationwide student strike on 17 March [55][56]
In early January , the Awami League held an anti-famine rally in Dhaka during the visit of Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan.
Mujib was arrested for instigating the protests. On 26 January , Pakistan's then Bengali Prime Minister Khawaja Nazimuddin reiterated that Urdu will be the only state language. Despite his imprisonment, Mujib played a key role in organising protests by issuing instructions from jail to students and protestors. He played a key role in declaring 21 February as a strike day.
Mujib went on hunger strike from 14 February in the prelude to the strike day. His own hunger strike lasted 13 days. On 26 February, he was released from jail amid the public outrage over police killings of protestors on 21 February, including Salam, Rafiq, Barkat, and Jabbar.[55][57][24][58][59][60]
United Front
Main article: United Front (East Pakistan)
The League teamed up with other parties like the Krishak Praja Party of A.
K. Fazlul Huq to form the United Front coalition. During the East Bengali legislative election, , Mujib was elected to public office for the first time. He became a member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly. This was the first election in East Bengal since the partition of India in The Awami League-led United Front secured a landslide victory of seats in the seats of the provincial assembly.
Mujib himself won by a margin of 13, votes against his Muslim League rival Wahiduzzaman in Gopalganj. A. K. Fazlul Huq became Chief Minister and inducted Mujib into his cabinet. Mujib's initial portfolios were agriculture and forestry. After taking oath on 15 May , Chief Minister Huq travelled with ministers to India and West Pakistan. The coalition government was dismissed on 30 May Mujib was arrested upon his return to Dhaka from Karachi.
He was released on 23 December Governor's rule was imposed in East Bengal.[62] The elected government was eventually restored in
On 5 June , Mujib was elected to a newly reconstituted second Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. The Awami League organised a huge public meeting at Paltan Maidan in Dhaka on 17 June which outlined 21 points demanding autonomy for Pakistan's provinces.
Mujib was a forceful orator at the assembly in Karachi. He opposed the government's plan to rename East Bengal as East Pakistan as part of the One Unit scheme. On 25 August , he delivered the following speech.
Sir [President of the Constituent Assembly], you will see that they want to use the phrase 'East Pakistan' instead of 'East Bengal'.
We have demanded many times that you should use Bengal instead of Pakistan. The word Bengal has a history and tradition of its own. You can change it only after the people have been consulted. If you want to change, we have to go back to Bengal and ask them whether they are ready to accept it. So far as the question of one unit is concerned it can be incorporated in the constitution.
Why do you want it to be taken up right now? What about the state language, Bengali? We are prepared to consider one unit with all these things. So, I appeal to my friends on the other side to allow the people to give their verdict in any way, in the form of referendum or in the form of plebiscite.[63]
Mujib was often a vocal defender of human rights.
Speaking on freedom of assembly and freedom of speech, he told Pakistan's parliament the following on 29 November
For whom are you going to frame the Constitution? Are you going to give freedom of speech, freedom of action to the people of Pakistan? When you do not have any other law under which you can arrest a person, you haul him under this so-called Public Safety Act.
This is the blackest Act on the statute book of Pakistan. I do not know how long such an Act will continue. I want to warn you. Sir, that you must do justice to all people without fear or favour. If justice fails, equity fails, fair-play fails, then we will see how the matter is decided.[64]
Mujib often called for increased recruitment and affirmative action in East Pakistan.
Bengalis were under-represented in the civil and military services despite making up the largest ethnic group in the federation.[65] Mujib felt that Bengalis were being relegated to provincial jobs instead of federal jobs because most Bengalis could not afford to travel outside the province in spite of holding master's degrees and bachelor's degrees.
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It was stated that at the time of partition there was only one I.C.S.
officer in East Bengal and there were no Engineers. I say that Bengal with 16 per cent literacy has only such a meagre representation in the service. Sir, this fact must be realised that it costs an individual Rs. to come from East Bengal to this place. If you recruit in East Bengal and give a job you will find a large number of people from East Bengal coming forward.
There are such a large number of and B. As (Interruptions) Sir, my time has been spoiled.[64]
Mujib later became provincial minister of commerce and industries in the cabinet of Ataur Rahman Khan. These portfolios allowed Mujib to consolidate his popularity among the working class.
The Awami League's demand for Bengali as a federal language was successfully implemented in the constitution, which declared Urdu, Bengali and English as national languages. East Bengal, however, was renamed East Pakistan. In , Mujib visited the People's Republic of China. In , he toured the United States as part of the State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program.[66][67] Mujib resigned from the provincial cabinet to work full time for the Awami League as a party organiser.[68]
Suhrawardy premiership
Between and , Mujib's mentor Suhrawardy served as the 5th Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Suhrawardy strengthened Pakistan's relations with the United States and China. Suhrawardy was a strong supporter of Pakistan's membership in SEATO and CENTO.[69] Suhrawardy's pro-Western foreign policy caused Maulana Bhashani to break away from the Awami League to form the National Awami Party, though Mujib remained loyal to Suhrawardy.
Mujib joined the Alpha Insurance Company in [70] He continued to work in the insurance industry for many years.[71][72][73]
The Pakistani military coup ended Pakistan's first era of parliamentary democracy as Muhammad Ayub Khan, the commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army, overthrew the Bengali president Iskandar Ali Mirza and abolished the constitution.
Many politicians were imprisoned and disqualified from holding public office, including Mujib's mentor Suhrawardy.[74] A new constitution was introduced by Ayub Khan which curtailed universal suffrage and empowered electoral colleges to elect the country's parliament.[75][76]
Six point movement
Main article: Six point movement
Following Suhrawardy's death in , Mujib became General Secretary of the All Pakistan Awami League with Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan as its titular president.[77][78] The constitution introduced a presidential republic.[79] Mujib was one of the key leaders to rally opposition to president Ayub Khan who enacted a system of electoral colleges to elect the country's parliament and president under a system known as "Basic Democracy".[80][75][81]Universal suffrage was curtailed as part of the Basic Democracy scheme.
Mujib supported opposition candidate Fatima Jinnah against Ayub Khan in the presidential election.[82] Fatima Jinnah, the sister of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah, drew huge crowds in East Pakistan during her presidential campaign which was supported by the Combined Opposition Party, including the Awami League.[83] East Pakistan was the hotbed of opposition to the presidency of Ayub Khan.[84] Mujib became popular for voicing the grievances of the Bengali population, including under-representation in the military and central bureaucracy.[85] Despite generating most of Pakistan's export earnings and customs tax revenue, East Pakistan received a smaller budget allocation than West Pakistan.[86]
The war between India and Pakistan ended in stalemate.
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In , Pakistan banned the works of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in state media.[88][89][90] Censorship in state media spurred Bengali civil society groups like Chhayanaut to preserve Bengali culture.
When Ayub Khan compared Bengalis to beasts, the poet Sufia Kamal retorted that "If the people are beasts then as the President of the Republic, you are the king of the beasts".[91]The Daily Ittefaq led by Tofazzal Hossain voiced growing aspirations for democracy, autonomy, and nationalism. Economists in Dhaka University pointed to the massive reallocation of revenue to West Pakistan despite East Pakistan's role in generating most of Pakistan's export income.
Rehman Sobhan paraphrased the two-nation theory into the two economies theory.[92][93][94][95] He argued that East and West Pakistan had two fundamentally distinct economies within one country. In , Mujib put forward a 6-point plan at a national conference of opposition parties in Lahore.[24] The city of Lahore was chosen because of its symbolism as the place where the Lahore Resolution was adopted by the Muslim League in The six points called for abolishing the Basic Democracy scheme, restoring universal suffrage, devolving federal power to the provinces of East and West Pakistan, separate fiscal, monetary and trade policies for East and West Pakistan, and increased security spending for East Pakistan.[96]
- The constitution should provide for a Federation of Pakistan in its true sense based on the Lahore Resolution and the parliamentary form of government with supremacy of a legislature directly elected on the basis of universal adult franchise.
- The federal government should deal with only two subjects: defence and foreign affairs, and all other residuary subjects shall be vested in the federating states.
- Two separate, but freely convertible currencies for two wings should be introduced; or if this is not feasible, there should be one currency for the whole country, but effective constitutional provisions should be introduced to stop the flight of capital from East to West Pakistan.
Furthermore, a separate banking reserve should be established and a separate fiscal and monetary policy be adopted for East Pakistan.
- The power of taxation and revenue collection shall be vested in the federating units and the federal center will have no such power. The Federation will be entitled to a share in the state taxes to meet its expenditures.
- There should be two separate accounts for the foreign exchange earnings of the two wings; the foreign exchange requirements of the federal government should be met by the two wings equally or in a ratio to be fixed; indigenous products should move free of duty between the two wings, and the constitution should empower the units to establish trade links with foreign countries.
- East Pakistan should have its own security force.
Mujib's points catalysed public support across East Pakistan, launching what historians have termed the six point movement&#;– recognised as the turning point towards East and West Pakistan becoming two nations.[97][98] Mujib insisted on a federal democracy and obtained broad support from the Bengali population.[] In , Mujib was elected as President of the Awami League.
Tajuddin Ahmad succeeded him as General Secretary.
Agartala Conspiracy Case
Main article: Agartala Conspiracy Case
Mujib was arrested by the Pakistan Army and after two years in jail, an official sedition trial in a military court opened. During his imprisonment between and , Mujib began to write his autobiography.[] In what is widely known as the Agartala Conspiracy Case, Mujib and 34 Bengali military officers were accused by the government of colluding with Indian government agents in a scheme to divide Pakistan and threaten its unity, order and national security.
The plot was alleged to have been planned in the city of Agartala in the bordering Indian state of Tripura.[24] The outcry and unrest over Mujib's arrest and the charge of sedition against him destabilised East Pakistan amidst large protests and strikes. Various Bengali political and student groups added demands to address the issues of students, workers and the poor, forming a larger "point plan".
The government caved to the mounting pressure, dropped the charges on 22 February and unconditionally released Mujib the following day. He returned to East Pakistan as a public hero.[] He was given a mass reception on 23 February, at the Ramna Race Course and conferred with the popular honorary title of Bangabandhu by Tofail Ahmed.[] The term Bangabandhu means Friend of the Bengal in the Bengali language.[] Several of Bengal's historic leaders were given similar honorary titles, including Sher-e-Bangla (Lion of Bengal) for A.
K. Fazlul Huq, Deshbandhu (Friend of the Nation) for Chittaranjan Das, and Netaji (The Leader) for Subhash Chandra Bose.
uprising and Round Table Conference
Main article: East Pakistan uprising
In , President Ayub Khan convened a Round Table Conference with opposition parties to find a way out of the prevailing political impasse.
A few days after his release from prison, Mujib flew to Rawalpindi to attend the Round Table Conference.[] Mujib sought to bargain for East Pakistan's autonomy. Mujib was the most powerful opposition leader at the Round Table Conference. Ayub Khan shook hands with Mujib, whom Khan previously had imprisoned. Talking to British media, Mujib said "East Pakistan must get full regional autonomy.
It must be self-sufficient in all respects.
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West Pakistani crowds received him with chants of "Sheikh Saheb Zindabad!" (meaning Long Live the Sheikh!).[] He was received by huge crowds in Quetta, Baluchistan. He spoke to West Pakistani crowds in a heavily Bengali accent of Urdu, talking about chhey nukati (six points) and hum chhoy dofa mangta sab ke liye.[]