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MNA Feature Desk: The 143rd birth anniversary of Abul Kasem Fazlul Haque, known as Sher-e-Bangla (Tiger of Bengal), is being celebrated today across the country.
On the occasion, Sher-e-Bangla Smrity Academy placed wreaths at the grave of the great leader in the city morning.
On this day in 1873, Haque was born at his maternal uncle’s house in Saturia village in earlier Bakerganj district, now Jhalokati district in Barisal Division.
He passed the entrance examination in 1890 from Barisal Zilla School and the FA Examination in 1892. He then obtained a BA degree (with triple honours in chemistry, mathematics and physics) from Presidency College.
Later, he got admitted in MA in English at Calcutta University. Just six months before the final exam, a friend of his father teased him that, Muslims are weak in mathematics and that’s why he was studying English.
Haque was the first to advocate and present the Lahore Resolution, which called for the creation of sovereign Muslim-majority states in eastern and northwestern British India in 1940.
In 1943 he was elected Prime Minister of Bengal during the British Empire in Bengal. A distinguished lawyer and advocate, he served as General Secretary of the Indian National Congress; and was a working committee member of the All-India Muslim League.
In 1929, he founded the Krishak Praja Party (K.P. P.). After the independence of the two states Dominion of Pakistan and Dominion of India, he moved to Pakistan and led the United Front government in East Pakistan, serving as Chief Minister and Governor.
He later served as central minister of home affairs, food and agriculture. A lifelong Bangla nationalist, he is regarded as one of the fore running leaders in the independence of Pakistan.
He established the Bangla Academy in Dhaka. Haque died in 1962 and was buried on the grounds of Ramna Park in Shahbag.
