Abul Mansur Ahmed

Abul Mansur Ahmed
Native name আবুল মনসুর আহমেদ
Born (1898-09-03)3 September 1898
Mymensingh, Bengal, British India
Died 18 March 1979(1979-03-18) (aged 80)
Education Bachelor of Law
Alma mater Dhaka College
Ripon College
Occupation Littérateur, politician, journalist
Children Mahfuz Anam

Abul Mansur Ahmed (3 September 1898 – 18 March 1979) was a Bangladeshi littérateur, politician and journalist.[1] He was the father of Mahfuz Anam, journalist and editor of The Daily Star.

Early life and education

Ahmed was born in Mymensingh to Abdur Rahim Farazi and Mir Jahan Begum. He passed the Matriculation exam from Nasirabad Mrithunjoy Vidyalay in 1917 and the Intermediate exam from Jagannath College in 1919. Then he completed Bachelor of Arts from Dhaka College in 1921. He studied Law at Ripon College, Calcutta (later renamed Surendranath College) and passed the BL examination in 1929.[1] He got involved in Khilafat and Non-Cooperation movements.

Career

During 1929-1938 he practiced law in Mymensingh. Later, worked at Kolkata as a professional journalist and a political activist until the 1947 partition. He worked for The Krsak, Navayug, Ittehad, Soltan and The Mohammadi.

Huq joined the Congress movement under Subhas Chandra Bose. He became an active member of the Muslim League after the elections of 1937 and became an activist of the Pakistan movement since 1940. In 1954 United Front election he became elected member of parliament from Trishal, Mymensingh constituency. Ahmed was the main architect of the 21 point program of the United Front election manifesto. He was the provincial education minister in the United Front Cabinet under AK Fazlul Huq and the central commerce and industries minister and Deputy Prime minister of the Awami League government of Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1957. He was the founder-secretary of the Awami Muslim League, later Bangladesh Awami League. He was imprisoned when Martial Law was declared by General Ayub Khan in 1958 and was released in 1962.

Works

Novels

Satires

Reminiscence

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 Rana Razzaque (2014), "Ahmed, Abul Mansur", Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, retrieved May 6, 2015
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