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Constituent Assembly Of Pakistan
The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan was the supreme federal legislature of the Dominion of Pakistan. It was established in August 1947 with the primary tasks of framing Constitution of Pakistan of 1956, a constitution; and serving as an interim parliament. It was dissolved in March 1956 and succeeded by the Parliament of Pakistan. First Session The members were originally elected to the Constituent Assembly of India before they abdicated in the aftermath of the partition of India. Later the members were elected in 1947 Pakistani Constituent Assembly election, 1947 elections. The members were as follows: Pakistan's Constituent Assembly first convened on August 10, 1947, on the eve of independence and the end of British Raj, British rule. Muhammad Ali Jinnah was elected as the president of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on the same day and remained its president until his death on September 11, 1948. Subsequently, Liaquat Ali Khan headed it for three years and produced t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Constituent Assembly Of India
Constituent Assembly of India was partly elected and partly nominated body to frame the Constitution of India. It was elected by the Provincial assemblies of British India following the Provincial Assembly elections held in 1946 and nominated by princely states. After India's independence from the British in August 1947, its members served as the nation's 'Provisional Parliament', as well as the Constituent Assembly. It was first conceived by V. K. Krishna Menon, who outlined its necessity as early as 1933 and espoused the idea as a demand of the Indian National Congress. The Indian National Congress held its session at Lucknow in April 1936 presided by Jawaharlal Nehru. The official demand for a Constituent Assembly was raised and the Government of India Act, 1935 was rejected as it was an imposition on the people of India. C. Rajagopalachari again voiced the demand for a Constituent Assembly on 15 November 1939 based on adult franchise, and was accepted by the British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Azizuddin Ahmad
Azizuddin Ahmad (; 21 February 1897 – 10 July 1968) was a member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan as a representative of East Pakistan. Early life and education Azizuddin Ahmad was born on 21 February 1897 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Madanpur, Daulatkhan in Bhola Island, then a part of the Backergunge District of the Bengal Presidency. His father, Moulvi Abdul Latif, was an Islamic scholar. After receiving a first-class in his matriculation from Barisal Zilla School and was awarded the Gold Award from the University of Calcutta. He completed his Intermediate of Arts from Brojomohun College, and then enrolled at the Aligarh Muslim University in the United Provinces. He became acquainted with Mohammad Ali Jauhar during his time in Aligarh. Ahmad enrolled at the University of Dacca following its establishment in 1921 and swiftly gained influence as a student leader and public speaker. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English literature and Bachelor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ghayasuddin Pathan
Ghayasuddin Pathan was a Member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan as a representative of East Pakistan. Career Pathan was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. He served as the State Minister of Finance. Following the dismissal of the cabinet led by Khawaja Nizamuddin, he was appointed the State Minister of Agriculture, Minority Affairs, and Parliamentary Affairs in the cabinet of Chaudhry Muhammad Ali Chaudhri Muhammad Ali (15 July 1905 – 2 December 1982) was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the fourth prime minister of Pakistan from 1955 until his resignation in 1956. His government transitioned Pakistan from a British .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pathan, Ghayasuddin Pakistani MNAs 1947–1954 1963 deaths 1897 births Members of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan Bangladeshi people of Afghan descent People from Gafargaon Upazila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Fazlur Rahman (politician)
Fazlur Rahman (, ; 1905–1966) was a Pakistani Bengali politician and lawyer. He was the first Education Minister of Pakistan and a member of the 1st and 2nd National Assemblies of Pakistan. Early life and education Fazlur Rahman was born in 1905, to an Urdu-speaking Muslim family in the village of Shinepukur, Dohar, Dhaka. He studied at Bharga High School and later obtained a Master of Arts degree in history in 1929. In 1933, he earned a BL degree. Career After completing his education, Fazlur Rahman initially started in the law sector but participated in social work and politics. During this period, he was a part of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League's Working Committee as well as the All-India Muslim League's Central Committee. In 1937, he was elected as a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly for Dacca. The council appointed him as Chief Whip in 1943. In 1946, Fazlur Rahman became the Revenue Minister of Bengal and was re-elected into the Bengal Legislative Council. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ibrahim Khan (writer)
Ibrahim Khan (often referred as Principal Ibrahim Khan; – 29 March 1978) was a Bangladeshi litterateur. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1977 by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life and education Khan was born in Shabaj Nagar in Tangail District. He passed the entrance examination from Pingna High School and FA from Ananda Mohan College in 1912 and 1914 respectively. He earned his bachelor's from St. Paul's Cathedral Mission College in 1916 and master's from Calcutta University as a private candidate. He obtained his law degree in 1918. Career Khan started his career as headmaster of Karatia High School, Tangail district in 1919. Khan participated in activities like Khelafat Andolon, Asohojog Andolon and Rayet Mohajon Birodhi Andolon. He was elected as the member of the Provincial Assembly and Constituent Assembly in 1945 and 1953 respectively. In November 1947, a memorandum demanding that Bangla be adopted as the state language of East Bengal was signed by a number of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bhupendra Kumar Datta
Bhupendra Kumar Dutta (; 8 October 1892 – 29 December 1979) was an Indian freedom fighter and a revolutionary who fought for Indian independence from British rule. In addition to his other specific contributions as a Jugantar leader, he holds the record of a hunger strike for 78 days in Bilaspur Jail in December 1917. Early days He was born on 8 October 1892, in the village Thakurpur in Jessore, now in Bangladesh. His father Kailash Chandra Datta was the manager of the nearby Parchar estates in Faridpur. His mother Bimalasundari was a charitable woman who brought up her children Bhupen, Kamalini, Jadugopal, Snehalata and Suprabha in a God-loving atmosphere. While reading the Ramayana, one day young Bhupen learned that the heroic Lakshmana owed his mom to his control of impulses (''brahmacharya''). Having asked his mother what it meant, he declared that he would follow ''brahmachmom'', which he did throughout his life of a bachelor, dedicated to the service of fellow creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dhirendra Nath Datta
Dhirendranath Datta (2 November 1886 – disappeared 29 March 1971) was a Bengali lawyer and politician from East Bengal who was a member of the 1st Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. He is best known for proposing Bengali for the national language of Pakistan in the Assembly. He was also active in the politics of undivided Bengal in pre-partition India. Early life Datta was born in an Aristocrat Kayastha Family on 2 November 1886 in Ramrail Union, in Brahmanbaria District, Bengal Province (in today's Bangladesh). His father Jagabandhu Datta was a mukhtiyer (lower ranked pleader) who introduced Dhirendranath to the legal profession from an early age. Dhirendranath completed matriculation from Comilla Zilla School and intermediate from Ripon College in Calcutta. Later he completed his graduation and obtained law degree from Calcutta University. Early career Datta began his career as a school teacher after passing intermediate, he eventually became assistant headmaster of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Akhay Kumar Das
Akshay Kumar Das (; born 1903) was a Bengali Hindu politician of Pakistan, who served as a representative of East Pakistan in both the First and Second Constituent Assemblies, and held multiple ministries across the 1950s in governments formed by different political parties. Das was born at Sullah, Sylhet in 1903. He was a lawyer by training, and practiced at the local court before joining politics. In the 1937 Assam Provincial Assembly Elections, he filed his nomination from Sunamganj, a dual-member constituency, from the Constitutionalist Party. Das won the reserved seat, unopposed. In February 1938, he was appointed as the Minister of Law in the Second Ministry of Muhammed Saadulah, as Muslim League entered into new coalitions to preserve power. Nonetheless, as the government fell in September with Congress poaching off coalition partners, Das switched sides to become the Minister of Excise and Agriculture under the premiership of Gopinath Bordoloi. In 1939, with Congress g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hamidul Haq Chowdhury
Hamidul Huq Chowdhury (, ; 25 August 1901– 18 January 1992) was a Pakistani-Bangladeshi politician. He was the founder of ''The Pakistan Observer'', an English-language newspaper which changed its name to ''The Bangladesh Observer'' after the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was educated in Dhaka and Calcutta, and had a career as a lawyer, politician and newspaper proprietor. Early life Hamidul Huq Chowdhury was born in Ramnagar village, Daganbhuiyan upazila, Feni District, (now Bangladesh) during the British Raj in 1901. Hamidul Huq was educated at the Dacca Collegiate School in Dhaka, Scottish Church Collegiate School and Presidency College in Calcutta and the Law College of the University of Calcutta. He was admitted as an Advocate before the Calcutta High Court and served for a time as a Crown Prosecutor. Hamidul Huq also served as a Legal Remembrancer for the Calcutta High Court. Following Partition in 1947, he had a long and distinguished legal practice before the Pakista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Murtaza Raza Choudhry
Murtaza Raza Choudhry was a Member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan as a representative of East Pakistan. Early life and family Choudhry was born into an aristocratic Bengali Muslim family known as the ''Zamindars'' of Monakosha in Nawabganj, Malda district (now in present-day Bangladesh). His father, Jehad Ahmad Choudhry, was the ''zamindar'' of Monakosha. His paternal grandfather, Ismail Hossain Choudhry, was the ''zamindar'' of Kotalpukur in Bihar. Choudhry married Syeda Roqeya Akhtar, the daughter of Syed Azizullah and Syeda Ammatul Ela Raziya Khatun. They had ten children. His eldest son, Mainur Reza Chowdhury, became the 12th Chief Justice of Bangladesh and served as an adviser at the caretaker government of Bangladesh. Choudhry's sister-in-law, Syeda Selena Akhtar, was the wife of Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry. Career Choudhry was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan was the supreme federal legislature of the Domi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Abdul Matin Chaudhary
Abdul Matin Chaudhury (; 1895–1948), also known by his daak naam Kola Mia (); and the epithet Jinnar Daain Haat (lit. ''Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Jinnah's right hand''); (also spelled Abdul Matin Chaudhary in English) was a Pakistani Bengali trade unionist, journalist, politician, and a member of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly as a representative of East Bengal. Early life and education Chaudhury was born on 13 February 1895 to a Bengali Muslim family in the mahalla of Fatehkhani in Bhadeswar pargana, Golapganj Upazila, Sylhet District, in the then Assam province. His father, Abdul Karim Chaudhury, was a sub-inspector of police and his mother, Habibunnesa Khatun, was a housewife. The title of Chaudhury was awarded to his ancestor Dost Mohammed by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. He completed his secondary education at the Habiganj Government High School where he gained a first division in 1912. He then proceeded to study at the Murari Chand College in Sylhet where he completed his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sris Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Sris Chandra Chattopadhyaya (18731967) was a Bengali civil servant and politician from East Bengal. He was a Member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan as a representative of East Pakistan. He was born in Dhaka. Career Chattopadhyaya was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. He had argued for a secular Pakistan in the constituent assembly. He was opposed to the passing of the Objectives Resolution The Objectives Resolution () was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on 12 March 1949. The resolution proclaimed that the future constitution of Pakistan would not be modeled entirely on a European p ... of 1949. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Chattopadhyaya Pakistani MNAs 1947–1954 1966 deaths Year of birth missing Bengali Hindus Pakistani Hindus Politicians from East Pakistan Politicians from Dhaka Members of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan Bangladesh National Congress politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
