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Mohammad Ullah (1921-1999) President of Bangladesh, lawyer and politician. Mohammad Ullah was born at village Saicha in Raipur Thana of Luxmipur district in 1921. He passed entrance examination in 1938 from Luxmipur High School, BA (Hons) in History from the university of dhaka in 1943, and obtained law degree from the same and also from
Calcutta University. He joined Dhaka District Bar in 1950 and Dhaka High Court Bar in 1964.
Mohammad Ullah joined politics as an activist of awami
league in 1950 and was elected office secretary of the East
Bengal Awami Muslim League in 1952. He took active part in the movement
for autonomy based on six-point
programme (1966) and had to suffer imprisonment for several
times. He was elected member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly
in 1970. During the war
of liberation in 1971, Mohammad Ullah was the political adviser
to the Acting President of the mujibnagar
government. Mohammad Ullah was elected deputy speaker at the
first session of the jatiya
sangsad (1972). He was made the speaker after the death of
Shah Abdul Hamid. He was elected member of the Jatiya Sangsad in 1973
and was elected its speaker. Mohammad Ullah was elected President of the
Peoples Republic of Bangladesh on 23 December 1973, a position which he
held till 25 January 1975. [Mofakkhar Hossain Khan] |
