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Bangabandhu

Bangabandhu
Father of The Nation

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1950.jpg
1st and 4th President of Bangladesh
In office
11 April 1971 – 12 January 1972
Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmad
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Nazrul Islam (Acting)
In office
25 January 1975 – 15 August 1975
Prime Minister Muhammad Mansur Ali
Preceded by Mohammad Mohammadullah
Succeeded by Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad
2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh
In office
12 January 1972 – 24 January 1975
President Abu Sayeed Chowdhury
Mohammad Mohammadullah
Preceded by Tajuddin Ahmad
Succeeded by Muhammad Mansur Ali
Personal details
Born (1920-03-17)17 March 1920
Tungipara, Bengal Presidency, British India
(now in Bangladesh)
Died 15 August 1975(1975-08-15) (aged 55)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nationality Bangladeshi
Political party Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (1975)
Other political
affiliations
All-India Muslim League (Before 1949)
Awami League (1949–1975)
Spouse(s) Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib
Relations See Sheikh–Wazed family
Children Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Rehana
Sheikh Kamal
Sheikh Jamal
Sheikh Rasel
Alma mater Maulana Azad College
University of Dhaka
Religion Islam

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bengali: শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান; Bengali pronunciation: [Shekh Mujibur Rôhman]) (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975) was the founding leader of Bangladesh. He served twice as the country's President and was its strongman premier between 1972 and 1975. Rahman was the leader of the Awami League. He is popularly known as the Bangabandhu (Friend of Bengal). He is credited as the central figure in Bangladesh's liberation movement and is considered the founding father of Bangladesh. His daughter Sheikh Hasina is the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

An advocate of socialism, Rahman rose with the ranks of the Awami League and East Pakistani politics as a charismatic and forceful orator. He became popular for his opposition to the ethnic and institutional discrimination of Bengalis in Pakistan, who compromised the majority of the state's population. At the heightening of sectional tensions, he outlined a 6-point autonomy plan and was jailed by the regime of Field Marshal Ayub Khan for treason. Rahman led the Awami League to win the first democratic election of Pakistan in 1970. Despite gaining a majority, the League was not invited by the ruling military junta to form a government. As civil disobedience erupted across East Pakistan, Rahman announced the Bangladeshi struggle for independence during a landmark speech on 7 March 1971. On 26 March 1971, the Pakistan Army responded to the mass protests with Operation Searchlight, in which Prime Minister-elect Rahman was arrested and flown to solitary confinement in West Pakistan, while Bengali civilians, students, intellectuals, politicians and military defectors were murdered as part of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide. After Bangladesh's liberation, Rahman was released from Pakistani custody and returned to Dhaka in January 1972.


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