Legislative elections were held in East Bengal between 8 and 12 March 1954, the first since Pakistan became an independent country in 1947. The opposition...
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legislature in Pakistan. Elections were held only twice in 1954 and 1970. During the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971, most Bengali members elected to...
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The Bengali language movement was a political movement in former East Bengal in 1952, advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as a co-lingua...
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A. K. Fazlul Huq (category East Bengal MLAs 1947–1954)
the Lahore Resolution in 1940. The East Bengali legislative election, 1954 was the first major democratic election in Pakistan's history. Fazlul Huq was...
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East Bengali legislative election, 1954, Awami Muslim League, formed a democratic government in East Pakistan. In 1958, the government in East Pakistan...
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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (category East Pakistan MLAs 1954–1958)
the East Bengali legislative election, 1954, Mujib was elected to public office for the first time. He became a member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly...
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and East Pakistan called for Amin's resignation. In subsequent provincial elections, Amin lost his seat in the legislative assembly. In the 1954, the...
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Abdul Wahed Bokainagari (category East Bengal MLAs 1947–1954)
he transferred to the East Bengal Legislative Assembly. He was re-elected at the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election as a Nizam-e-Islam Party...
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Nurul Amin (category East Bengal MLAs 1947–1954)
Bengali) visited East Bengal in early 1954 in an attempt to rally support for the League, but it was too late. Leading politicians in West and East Pakistan...
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political parties in East Bengal which contested and won Pakistan's first provincial general election to the East Bengal Legislative Assembly. The coalition...
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legislature in Pakistan and elections were held only twice in 1954 and 1970. During the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, most Bengali members elected to the...
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Bangladesh genocide (redirect from Bengali genocide)
'Bengali genocide') was the ethnic cleansing of Bengalis, especially Bengali Hindus, residing in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) during the Bangladesh...
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Krishak Sramik Party (category CS1 Bengali-language sources (bn))
(Farmer-Labour Party) in 1954. The party was part of the United Front coalition that contested the 1954 East Bengali legislative election; with a 21-point manifesto...
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lists of famous and notable Bengali people in the Indian subcontinent, people with Bengali ancestry, and people who speak Bengali as their primary language...
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Call Ready (category CS1 uses Bengali-language script (bn))
movements in East Pakistan. The notable events where the service was used, the Bengali language movement in 1952, 1954 East Bengali legislative election, the...
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Akshay Kumar Das (category East Bengal MLAs 1947–1954)
(1950) and gained significant political mileage. In the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Das was re-elected from his seat. In September 1955...
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Abdul Kader Mia (category CS1 Bengali-language sources (bn))
Rahman Khan of the Muslim League. The 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election was the first legislative election in the Dominion of Pakistan, and Abdul...
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The East Bengal Scheduled Castes Federation (Bengali: পূর্ববঙ্গ তফসিলি জাতি ফেডারেশন), later the East Pakistan Scheduled Castes Federation (Bengali: পূর্ব...
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Boat (politics) (category CS1 Bengali-language sources (bn))
independence of Pakistan, East Bengal-based United Front wanted to have the plough for the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election, but as the symbol...
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Fazlur Rahman (politician) (category East Bengal MLAs 1947–1954)
the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election as a Muslim League candidate. However, in 1955, he became an independent politician when the East Pakistan...
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Prem Hari Barma (category Articles containing Bengali-language text)
Prem Hari Barma (Bengali: প্রেমহরি বর্মন) was a Bengali politician, and former leader of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes in Dinajpur, East Bengal. Barma...
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Mirza Abdul Awal (category CS1 Bengali-language sources (bn))
the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election and successfully won a seat at the East Bengal Legislative Assembly. He was involved in the Bengali language...
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central government) in East Pakistan. In 1954, he appointed his own "cabinet of talents". Mohammad Ali Bogra, another conservative Bengali and previously Pakistan's...
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M Osman Ali (category East Bengal MLAs 1947–1954)
Muslim League and a member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly. Ali was born on 1 January 1900 to a Bengali Muslim family of Pradhans in the village of...
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Nizam-e-Islam Party (category 1954 establishments in East Bengal)
of popular Islamic scholars. In the lead-up to the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election, the party eventually joined the United Front coalition...
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Moulvi Abdus Salam (category East Pakistan MLAs 1954–1958)
the East Bengal Provincial Assembly and the Revenue Minister in East Bengal from 1954 to 1962. Abdus Salam was born on 11 January 1906 to a Bengali Muslim...
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Awami League (redirect from East Pakistan Awami League)
voted to drop the word "Muslim". In the run-up to the East Bengal Legislative Assembly Elections in 1954, the Awami League took the lead in negotiations in...
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Dhirendranath Datta (category East Bengal MLAs 1947–1954)
1971) was a Bengali lawyer by profession who was also active in the politics of undivided Bengal in pre-partition India, and later in East Pakistan (1947–1971)...
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Abdul Wahab Khan (politician) (category CS1 Bengali-language sources (bn))
the Kotwali metropolitan thana. The 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election was the first legislative election in the Dominion of Pakistan, and Khan...
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Abu Hussain Sarkar (category East Pakistan MLAs 1954–1958)
of East Pakistan. Under his ministry, the Bangla Academy was inaugurated and 21 February was recognised as Shohid Dibosh in memory of the Bengali Language...
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