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Pakistani Constituent Assembly
The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan ( bn, পাকিস্তান গণপরিষদ, Pākistān Goṇoporishod; ur, , Aāin Sāz Asimblī) was established in August 1947 to frame Constitution of Pakistan of 1956, a constitution for Pakistan. It also served as its first interim parliament. It was dissolved by the Governor-General of Pakistan in 1954. First Session The members were originally elected to the Constituent Assembly of India, Constituent Assembly of undivided India before they abdicated in the aftermath of the Partition of India. 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 speaker 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 the Objectives Resolution, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imperial Legislative Council
The Imperial Legislative Council (ILC) was the legislature of the British Raj from 1861 to 1947. It was established under the Charter Act of 1853 by providing for the addition of 6 additional members to the Governor General Council for legislative purposes. Thus, the act separated the legislative and executive functions of the council and it was this body within the GG council which came to known as the Indian/Central Legislative Council. In 1861 it was renamed as Imperial Legislative Council and the strength was increased. It succeeded the Council of the Governor-General of India, and was succeeded by the Constituent Assembly of India and after 1950, was succeeded by Parliament of India. During the rule of the East India Company, the council of the Governor-General of India had both executive and legislative responsibilities. The council had four members elected by the Court of Directors. The first three members were permitted to participate on all occasions, but the fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azizuddin Ahmad
Azizuddin Ahmad was a Member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan as a representative of East Pakistan. Career Ahmad was a Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan ( bn, পাকিস্তান গণপরিষদ, Pākistān Goṇoporishod; ur, , Aāin Sāz Asimblī) was established in August 1947 to frame Constitution of Pakistan of 1956, a constitution for Paki .... He was a member of the Standing Advisory Committee on Communication. He was the State Minister of Minority Affairs. Personal life Ahmad's son, Naziruddin Ahmed, was the Managing Director of House Building Finance Corporation and died on 17 January 2021. References Pakistani MNAs 1947–1954 {{Pakistan-MNA-stub Year of birth missing Year of death missing Members of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazlur Rahman (politician)
Fazlur Rahman ( bn, ফজলুর রহমান, ur, فضل الرحمٰن; 1905–1966) was a 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 Bengali 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazlul Huq
Fazlul Haq ( ar, فضل الحق) is a male Muslim given name, meaning ''bounty of the Truth'', referring to ''Al-Haqq'', one of the Names of God in Islam. Both parts of the name are subject to varying transliteration, as the first part may be written ''Fazl'' or ''Fadl'', followed by the Arabic definite article ''al'', ''ul'' or ''el'' and the last part as ''Haqq'', ''Haque'', ''Hak'', ''Huq'' etc. Notable bearers of the name include: * A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873–1962), the first elected Prime Minister of Bengal during British rule *Fazlul Haque (judge) (born 1938), former High Court judge of Bangladesh, advisor of the 2007 Bangladesh Caretaker government *Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani (1939–1975), Bangladeshi politician *Fazlul Haque Amini (1943–2012), Muslim politician and Hanafi Islamic Scholar from Bangladesh *Abul Kashem Fazlul Haq (professor) (born 1944), Bangladeshi writer, essayist, translator, critic and columnist * A. K. M. Fazlul Haque (born 1949), Bangladesh Awami League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebrahim Khan
Ebrahim Khan Zahir od-Dowleh ( fa, ابراهیم خان) was an Iranian statesman from the Qajar dynasty. He is mostly known for his 22-year-old governorship of the Kerman Province (1803-1824). Life Ebrahim Khan was from the Qawanlu (also spelled Qoyunlu) branch of the Qajar family; he was the son of Mehdi-Qoli Khan, who was the brother of the Qajar ruler Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, and thus a paternal uncle of Fath-Ali Shah. Ebrahim Khan's mother was Asia Khanum, who was daughter of a certain Mohammad Khan Qawanlu. The date of Ebrahim Khan's birth is unknown, but he is known to have been a child when his father died during the siege of Astarabad in 1783 by the Zand ruler Karim Khan. After the early death of Ebrahim Khan's father, Agha Mohammad Khan married his mother, and then treated and raised Ebrahim Khan as one of his own sons along with his two nephews Fath-Ali Shah and Hosayn-Qoli Khan. In 1791, Ebrahim Khan married Fath-Ali Shah's eldest daughter Homayun Soltan. On 17 Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhupendra Kumar Datta
Bhupendra Kumar Dutta ( bn, ভূপেন্দ্র কুমার দত্ত; 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhirendra Nath Datta
Dhirendranath Datta (2 November 1886 – disappeared 29 March 1971) was a Bengali lawyer by profession who was also active in the politics of undivided Bengal in pre-partition India, and later in East Pakistan (1947–1971). Early life Datta was born on 2 November 1886 in Ramrail, in Brahmanbaria District, Bengal Province (in today's Bangladesh). His father Jagabandhu Datta was a lawyer and introduced Dhirendranath to the legal profession from an early age. Dhirendranath was educated at Nabinagar High School, Comilla Zilla School and Ripon College in Calcutta. Early career Datta began his career as a school teacher, eventually becoming assistant headmaster of the Bangora High school in Comilla. He was very active in the local community and was a leader of the relief effort following devastating floods in 1915. He formed the ''Mukti Sangha'', a welfare organization, after becoming inspired by Mahatma Gandhi. Datta's relief work continued up to the Bengal Famine of 1943. He j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akhay Kumar Das
Akshay Kumar Das ( bn, অক্ষয় কুমার দাস) (1903 - ?) was a Bengali Dalit 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 o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamidul Haq Chowdhury
Hamidul Huq Chowdhury ( bn, হামিদুল হক চৌধুরী) ( ur, حمید الحق چودھری) (1901–1992) was a 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ( bn, পাকিস্তান গণপরি ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Matin Chaudhary
Abdul Matin Chaudhary ( bn, আব্দুল মতিন চৌধুরী; 1925–1989), also known by his daak naam Kola Mia ( bn, কলা মিঞা), and the epithet Jinnar Daan Haat (lit. ''Jinnah's right hand''), was a Pakistani Bengali politician, journalist and a member of the 1st National Assembly of Pakistan as a representative of East Bengal. He was also Pakistan's inaugural Minister of Agriculture. Early life and education Chaudhary was born on 13 February 1895 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Bhadeshwar in Golapganj, Sylhet District. His father, Abdul Karim Chaudhary, was a sub-inspector and his mother's name was Habibunnesa Khatun. He completed his secondary education at the Sylhet Government High School where he gained a first class in 1912. He then proceeded to study at the Murari Chand College where he completed his intermediate examinations in 1914. In 1916, Chaudhary graduated from the Aligarh Muslim University in North India. He also c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sris Chandra Chattopadhyaya
Siris 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 ( ur, ) was adopted by the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Constituent Assembly of Pakistan on March 12, 1949. Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, had presented it in the assembly on March 7, 1949. Out of 75 members of ... of 1949. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Chattopadhyaya Pakistani MNAs 1947–1954 Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
