Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish
Mawlana Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish | ||
|---|---|---|
| 3rd President of Awami League | ||
| In office 10 October 1957 – 25 January 1966 | ||
| General Secretary | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | |
| Preceded by | Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy | |
| Succeeded by | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman | |
| Member of the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh | ||
| In office 1971–1973 | ||
| Constituency | NE-25 (Pabna-II) | |
| Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan | ||
| In office 1955–1958 | ||
| Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan | ||
| In office 10 August 1947 – 24 October 1954 | ||
| Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly | ||
| In office 1937–1945 | ||
| Personal details | ||
| Born | Khandakar Abdur Rashid 27 November 1900 Epithet (Laqab) Tarkabāghīsh | تركباغيش |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | Khūndakār خوندكار as-Sayyid السيد | |
Khandakar Abdur Rashid (
Early life and education
Khandakar Syed Abdur Rashid was born on 27 November 1900 to an aristocratic
From an early age, he developed a sense of patriotism. At the age of thirteen, he assembled helpless milk sellers against the local zamindars and mahajans and demanded that they pay them a fair price for milk. By the age of twenty-one, he was leading marchers in a non-violent protest for independence at the Salanga bazaar in Raiganj, when the crowd was fired upon, killing hundreds of people.[4] The events of 27 January 1922 are now referred to as the Salanga massacre in Bangladesh, and memorialised by "Salanga Day" annually.[5]
He later decided to pursue higher
Political career
Tarkabagish joined the Muslim League in 1936. From the party he participated in the election and earned his place in the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1937 and in 1946. At the budget session of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly on 21 February 1952, Tarkabagish heavily criticized the killing of several protesters near Dhaka Medical College.[1]
Tarkabagish asked the leader of the house, Nurul Amin, to formulate an inquiry and to visit to the wounded students before proceeding the session. But as Amin refused the proposal, he walked out of the assembly[6] and subsequently retired from Muslim League Parliamentary Party on February 23, 1952.[7] He also expressed gratitude to the dead and wounded activists of the movement.[6][8]
Tarkabagish protested the police firing on and killing of students on 21 February 1952, in the assembly. He also made his speech in
Tarkabagish was elected as the acting president of the Awami League in 1957, and then the president of the Awami League from 1964, a position in which he served till 1967.[9]
After the independence of Bangladesh
Tarkabagish presided over at the first session of the
Death and legacy
Tarkabagish died in
Controversy
After the assassination of Mujibur Rahman, Tarkabagish went against his former comrade and praised the mastermind of the assassination Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad saying, "May Allah bless the President [Moshtaque] in establishing rule of law, peace and happiness in the country by uprooting corruption."[10]
References
- ^ OL 30677644M. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ Dutta, Pradip Kumar. "An almost forgotten part of our glorious past | The Asian Age Online, Bangladesh". The Asian Age. Retrieved 2024-03-16.
- ^ "Birth anniversary of Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish". Archived from the original on 2013-05-15. Retrieved 2012-03-14.
- ^ "The Salanga Massacre of 1922: Bangladesh's forgotten bloodbath", by Shahnawaz Khan Chandan, The Daily Star (Dhaka, Bangladesh), January 25, 2019
- ^ "Salanga Day today", The Daily Star (Dhaka, Bangladesh), January 27, 2009
- ^ a b (Al Helal 2003, pp. 373–393)
- ^ "none", The Azad (a daily newspaper) (in Bengali), Abul Kalam Shamsuddin, Dhaka, December 11, 1948
- ^ "none", Daily Insaf (a daily newspaper) (in Bengali), Dhaka, February 24, 1952
- ^ Staff Correspondent; bdnews24.com. "Awami League National Councils in 67 years". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Who Said What After August 15". The Daily Star. 2014-08-17. Retrieved 2020-06-20.
Citations
- ISBN 984-401-523-5(in Bengali)
