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East Bengal Legislative Assembly was the elected law-making body of the province of
East BengalEast Bengal was the name used during two periods in the 20th century for a territory that roughly corresponded to the modern state of Bangladesh. Both instances involved a violent partition of Bengal....
in
PakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. It was later renamed the
East Pakistan Legislative Assembly and would be succeeded by the
Jatiyo SangshadJatiya Sangsad or National Assembly is the national parliament of Bangladesh. The current parliament of Bangladesh contains 345 seats including 45 women reserved seats distributed on elected party position in the parliament, the occupants of which are called Members of Parliament or MPs...
in 1971.
Speakers
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Elected |
Abdul KarimAbdul Karim is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and Karim. The name means "servant of the most Generous", Al-Karīm being one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.The letter a of the al-...
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1948 |
| Abdul Hakim Abdul Hakim was a poet in medieval Bengal. He was born on the island of Sandwip in 1620. Hakim's most famous work perhaps is Nurnama , a depiction of the life of prophet Muhammad in lyrical Bangla...
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1955 |
| Abdul Hamid Chowdhury |
1962 |