Ashab-ul-Haq

Ashab-ul-Haq
Member of Bangladesh Parliament
In office
1973–1976
Personal details
Political partyAwami League

Ashab-ul-Haq (Bengali: আসহাব-উল-হক) was an Awami League politician and the former member of parliament of Kushtia-7.

Early life

Haq was born on 4 December 1921 in Chuadanga District, Bengal Presidency, British India.[1]

Career

In 1970, Huq was elected to the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly.[1] During the Bangladesh Liberation War, Haq served as the leader of the free Bengali administration in Kushtia District.[2] He was the chief advisor to the Bangladesh Liberation Forces in the south-west region of Bangladesh.[3] He carried a revolver made by Webley & Scott.[2]

Ashab-ul-Haq was elected to parliament from Kushtia-7 as an Awami League candidate in 1973.[4]

Haq was arrested on 17 August 1975 after the 15 August 1975 Bangladeshi coup d'état in which President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed.[1] In 1977, he was sentenced to five years in prison by a martial law court.[1] He was released from prison in 1979 after which he left politics and resumed his medical career.[1] He was one of the witnesses of the Jail Killing that took place in Dhaka Central Jail on 3 November 1975.[1]

Death

Ashab-ul-Haq died on 7 October 2010.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g হক, মেসবাহ উল. একজন সাহসী ও সত্ রাজনীতিকের প্রতিকৃতি. The Daily Ittefaq. Archived from the original on 26 August 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b "PAKISTAN: The Battle of Kushtia". Time. 19 April 1971. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Freedom in the making: Bangladesh by Anne de Henning – in pictures". the Guardian. 10 December 2021. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  4. ^ ""List of 1st Parliament Members"" (PDF) (in Bengali). Bangladesh Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 September 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2021.


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