Awami League
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Bangladesh Awami League
বাংলাদেশ আওয়ামী লীগ বাংলাদেশ গণসংঘ |
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| Abbreviation | AL |
| President | Sheikh Hasina Wazed |
| General Secretary | Obaidul Quader |
| Founder |
Hamid Khan Bhashani Yar Mohammad Khan Shamsul Huq |
| Founded | 23 June 1949 |
| Split from | Muslim League |
| Preceded by | All Pakistan Awami Muslim League |
| Headquarters | Bangabandhu Avenue, Dhaka |
| Newspaper | Uttaran |
| Student wing | Chhatra League |
| Youth wing | Jubo League |
| Ideology |
Bengali nationalism Secularism Socialism |
| National affiliation | Grand Alliance |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colors | Green |
| Seats in the Jatyo Sangsad |
273 / 350
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| Website | |
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The Bangladesh Awami League (Bengali transliteration: বাংলাদেশ আওয়ামী লীগ; translated from Urdu: Bangladesh People's League); AL is one of the two major political parties of Bangladesh. It is the country's current governing party, after winning a majority in heavily criticised 2014 parliamentary elections where the majority of seats were uncontested.
The All Pakistan Awami Muslim League was founded in Dhaka, the capital of the Pakistani province of East Bengal, in 1949 by Bengali nationalists Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Shawkat Ali, Yar Mohammad Khan, Shamsul Huq, and later Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy who went on to become Prime Minister of Pakistan. The Pakistan Awami Muslim League was established as the Bengali alternative to the domination of the Muslim League in Pakistan and over centralisation of the government. The party quickly gained massive popular support in East Bengal, later named East Pakistan, and eventually led the forces of Bengali nationalism in the struggle against West Pakistan's military and political establishment.
The party under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, led the struggle for independence, first through massive populist and civil disobedience movements, such as the Six Point Movement and 1971 Non-Cooperation Movement, and then during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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