Bangabandhu sheikh mujibur rahman biography
Bangabandhu.
Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur
RAHMAN, SHEIKH MUJIBUR (1920–1975), first president and prime minister of Bangladesh (1971–1975). Adored and loved as Bangabandhu ("Bengal's Friend"), Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a charismatic, crowd-inspiring leader.
Bangabandhu sheikh mujibur rahman biography
The birth of Bangladesh was bloody; it passed through a nine-month gestation of massacre unleashed by the Pakistanis, and the intervention of the Indian army helped deliver it. The end of the Bangabandhu's colorful and constructive career was equally bloody.
Sheikh Mujib, as he was popularly called, was born in 1920 in the Faridpur district of present-day Bangladesh.
The son of a civil court official, Mujib graduated from a local missionary school in Faridpur in 1942, and from the Islamic College in Kolkata (Calcutta) in 1947. While attending high school, Mujib emerged as a student activist.
In January 1938 he confronted Chief Minister A. K. Fazlul Haq when he came to Gopalganj, Mujib's town, on an official visit. He asked the chief minister