Abul Mansur Ahmed (1898–1979) was a Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

i littérateur. Was also a politician and journalist. He was born in Mymensingh

Mymensingh

Mymensingh , pronounced moy-mon-shing-haw, is a city of Bangladesh situated on the river Brahmaputra. It is the headquarters of the administrative unit Mymensingh District. Mymensingh is the anglicized pronunciation of the original name Momenshahi, referring to a ruler called Momen Shah. The cadet...

. Renowned journalist and editor of The Daily Star Mahfuz Anam

Mahfuz Anam

Mahfuz Anam is an editor and publisher of Daily Star, one of Bangladesh's mainstream English language newspapers. He is also the publisher of "Weekly 2000", a prominent weekly newsletter from Bangladesh as well as "Anandadhara", a popular entertainment fortnightly of the country...

 is his son.

Student life

He passed the Matriculation Examination in 1917 and the Intermediate in 1919. This was a time when the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation movement

Non-cooperation movement

The non-cooperation movement was a significant phase of the Indian struggle for freedom from British rule which lasted for years. This movement, which lasted from September 1920 to February 1922 and was led by Mohandas Gandhi, and supported by the Indian National Congress. It aimed to resist...

s were attracting the Muslim educated class. Abul Mansur Ahmed got involved in these movements. He studied Law at Ripon College

Surendranath College

Surendranath College is an undergraduate college affiliated to the University of Calcutta, in Kolkata, India. It was founded in 1884 by the nationalist leader Surendranath Banerjea....

, Calcutta.

Career in law and journalism

For nine years, he practised law in Mymensingh. Later, worked at Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

 as a professional journalist and a political activist until the 1947 partition.

He worked for:

• The Krsak
• Navayug
• Ittehad
• Soltan
• The Mohammadi

As a Politician

He also joined the Congress movement

Indian National Congress

The Indian National Congress is one of the two major political parties in India, the other being the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest and one of the oldest democratic political parties in the world. The party's modern liberal platform is largely considered center-left in the Indian...

 under Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Became an active member of the Bengal Muslim League after the elections of 1937 and became an activist of the Pakistan movement

Pakistan Movement

The Pakistan Movement or Tehrik-e-Pakistan refers to the historical movement to have an independent Muslim state named Pakistan created from the separation of the north-western region of the Indian subcontinent, partitioned within or outside the British Indian Empire. It had its origins in the...

 since 1940.In 1954 Jukto front election he became elected member of parliament from Trishal, Mymensingh constituency. The main attraction of that election was the incumbent Prime Minister Mr. Nurul Amin lost his seat to Veteran student leader Mr. Khaleque Nawaz Khan at Nandail the home town of Prime minister constituency. Mr. Abul Monsur Ahmed was the main architect of the 21 point program of the 1954 jukto front election manifesto. Abul Mansur was the provincial education minister in the United Front Cabinet under Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Huq and the central commerce and industries minister and Deputy Prime minister of the Awami League government of Prime Minister Hossain Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1957. He was the founder-secretary of the Awami Muslim League

Awami Muslim League

Awami Muslim League Pakistan is a Pakistani political party formed in June 2008 by Shaikh Rasheed Ahmad.- NA-55 :This is a national assembly seat fought by Sheikh Rashid Ahmed of the Awami Muslim League Pakistan on February 24, 2010 but lost by a margin of more than 28000 votes...

, later Bangladesh Awami League

Bangladesh Awami League

The Bangladesh Awami League , commonly known as the Awami League, is the mainstream center-left, secular political party in Bangladesh...

. Was imprisoned when Martial Law was declared by General Ayub Khan in 1958 and was released in 1962.

Reminiscence

• Atto Katha (1978, autobiography)
• Amar Dekha Rajnitir Panchash Bachhar (1969)
• Sher-e-Bangla haite Bangabandhu (1972).

Awards for Litearture

• Bangla Academy Award
  Bangla Academy Award
  Bangla Academy Award is a literary award given by the Bangla Academy of Bangladesh in recognition of creative genius in advancement and overall contribution in the field of Bangla language and literature....
  
  (1960, one of the most honoured)
• Independence Day Medal (1979, Swadhinota Dibos Padak)
• Nasiruddin Gold Medal

External links

• http://www.media.uio.no/lasso/hoppgaver/25.html
• Banglapedia