Ataur Rahman Khan

Ataur Rahman Khan ( Bengali : আতাউর রহমান খান , Ātāur Rahamān Khān ; born March 6, 1905 in Balia , Dhaka District , Bengal , British India ; † December 7, 1991 in Dhaka ) was a politician in Pakistan and Bangladesh .

biography

After graduating from the Pogose School in Dhaka in 1924 and graduating from Jagannath College in 1927, he studied at the University of Dhaka , which he completed in 1930 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then completed his law studies at the University of Dhaka in 1936 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and was subsequently admitted to the bar in the Dhaka district. After two years in the judicial service between 1942 and 1944, he resumed his work as a lawyer.

Khan was already politically active in Bengal as chairman of the Krishak Praja party and the Muslim League . After the partition of India in 1947 he was one of the co-founders of the Awami League , of which he became vice-president, and in this role he subsequently took part in all popular democratic movements. He later served as president of the Grand National Convention, which promoted public opinion to establish a fully autonomous province of East Pakistan . He became a close ally of the founder of the Krishak Sramik Party (KSP) AK Fazlul Huq and Hussain Saeed Suhrawardi .

When the KSP in the alliance “United Front” (Jukto Front) and the “Awami League” party beat the “Muslim League” by a large margin in the 1954 election, this resulted in Huq becoming Governor of East Bengal and Khan Deputy Chief Became minister .

After his election as group chairman of the Awami League in the Provincial Assembly, he was from September 1956 to the end of 1958, finally, himself Chief Minister of the province. At this time he also appointed the future Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman as Minister for Industry, Trade, Labor, Anti-Corruption and Village Aid, and Muhammad Mansur Ali as Minister for Law, Parliamentary Affairs, Food and Agriculture in his cabinet. During the two-year term of his majority government, several development projects were initiated in the previously backward East Pakistan. After the coup d'état of General Muhammed Ayub Khan on October 27, 1958, he was removed from his post as the provincial chief minister and after the imposition of martial law he was banned from holding office.

After Suhrawardi's death, he left the Awami League in 1963 and instead founded the Jatiya League . After he called for East Pakistan to declare independence from Pakistan, he was arrested by the Pakistani army in December 1970. After Bangladesh gained independence on December 17, 1971, he was elected Member of Parliament ( Jatiya Sangsad ) and was then leader of the opposition in Parliament. In 1979 he was re-elected as a Member of Parliament.

Most recently he was Prime Minister as the successor to Hossain Mohammad Ershad from March 30, 1984 to July 9, 1986 . After leaving this office, Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury became the new Prime Minister.

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