BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN dedicated his life to establishing a democratic, peaceful and exploitation-free society called ‘Sonar Bangla’. He sacrificed his life to liberate the Bangalee nation. He is the founding father of the Bangalee nation, generator of Bangalee nationalism and creator of the sovereign state of Bangladesh.

1. PRESENTING BY –
SHAHRIAR AHAMED TANVIR
BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (BBA)
ID: 19-39893-1
SESSION: SPRING 2018-19(1)
SECTION: A-4
COURSE TEACHER: FARHANA AFROZ
COURSE NAME: BANGLADESH STUDIES

2. ۞ TOPIC ۞
LIFE AND LEADERSHIP OF
BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN

3. BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN dedicated his
life to establishing a democratic, peaceful and exploitation-free
society called ‘Sonar Bangla’. He sacrificed his life to liberate the
Bangalee nation. He is the founding father of the Bangalee nation,
generator of Bangalee nationalism and creator of the sovereign
state of Bangladesh.

4. EARLY LIFE:
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born in Tungipara, a village in Gopalganj
District in the province of Bengal in British India. He was born into a
Muslim, native Bengali family as the third child in a family of four
daughters and two sons.
Father: Sheikh Lutfur Rahman, was a serestadar (court clerk) of
Gopalganj civil court.
Mother: Sayera Khatun, was a house-wife.
Mujib’s childhood name was ’Khoka’.

5. EDUCATION:
In 1929, Mujib entered into class three at Gopalganj Public School, and two years
later, class four at Madaripur Islamia High School. From very early age Mujib
showed a potential of leadership. His parents noted in an interview that at an
young age, he organized a student protest in his school for the removal of an
inept principal.[6] Mujib withdrew from school in 1934 to undergo eye surgery,
and returned to school only after four years, owing to the severity of the
surgery and slow recovery.
Later, he passed his Matriculation from Gopalganj Missionary School in 1942,
Intermediate of Arts from Islamia College (now Maulana Azad College) in 1944
and BA from the same college in 1947. After the partition of India, he got
himself admitted into the University of Dhaka to study law but could not
complete it due to his expulsion from the University in early 1949 on the charge
of 'inciting the fourth-class employees' in their agitation against the University
authority's indifference towards their legitimate demands. After 61 years, in
2010, the expulsion has been withdrawn terming the expulsion as unjust and
undemocratic.

6. MARRIED LIFE::
 Married : At the age of eighteen, Mujib married Begum Fazilatunnesa.
 Children : Two daughters (Sheikh Hasina & Sheikh Rehana) and three sons (Sheikh
Kamal, Sheikh Jamal & Sheikh Russel).
Family of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

7. EARLY POLITICAL CAREER:
 Worker as All India Muslim League.
 Leaving the Muslim League he joined Suhrawardy and Maulana Bhashani in the
formation of the Awami Muslim League.
 Elected joint secretary of its East Bengal unit in 1949.
 In 1953, Mujib was elected general secretary of the East Pakistan Awami Muslim
League until 1966.
 In 1966 became president of the party.
 Entered parliamentary politics first in 1954 through his election as a member of the
East Bengal Legislative Assembly on the UNITED FRONT ticket.

8. LEADER OF EAST PAKISTAN:
 After Suhrawardy's death in 1963, Mujib became head of the Awami League.
 First language prisoners in 1952.
 In 1966, he announced his famous six-point program, calling it 'Our Charter of Survival’.
 A sedition case known as AGARTALA CONSPIRACY CASE, was brought against him by
Ayub regime.
 Most of the period of the Ayub regime Mujib was in jail, first from 1958 to 1961 and then
from 1966 to early 1969. During the second term in jail, Mujib’s charisma grew so much
that a mass uprising took place in his favor in early 1969.
 A mass uprising took place in his favor in early 1969 and Ayub administration was
compelled to release him on 22 February 1969 unconditionally
 On the following day of his release, the Sarbadaliya Chhatra Sangram Parishad organized a
mass reception to him at RAMNA RACECOURSE (now, Suhrawardy Uddyan) and accorded
him the title 'Bangabandhu' (Friend of the Bengalis).
 In him they saw a true leader who suffered jail terms for about twelve years during the
23 years of Pakistani rule.

9. ELECTION & LIBERATION WAR:
 The general elections of December 1970 made Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman the sole
spokesman of East Pakistan.
 The people gave him the absolute mandate in favor of his six-point doctrine.
 During this time, on 7 March, 1971 he addressed a mammoth public meeting at the Race Course
and declared: "The struggle now is the struggle for our emancipation, the struggle now is the
struggle for Independence”.
 At mid-night of 25 March 1971, the Pakistan army launched its brutal crackdown in Dhaka.
 Sheikh Mujib was arrested and kept confined at Dhaka Cantonment until he was lifted to West
Pakistan.
 In 27th March General Zia declared the Independence of BANGLADESH on behalf of
Bangabandhu.
 During the WAR OF LIBERATION The MUJIBNAGAR GOVERNMENT, formed on 17 April 1971
by the people’s representatives to head the Liberation War.
 Mujib was the President of that government.
 After 9 month war and giving the value of liberation as 3 million people death and the rape of
more than 200,000 women. Bangladesh became Independent.
 He released from Pakistan jail and via London he arrived in Dhaka on 10 January 1972.
 People of Bangladesh received him cordially and warmly.

10. GOVERNING BANGLADESH:
 Mujib formed a Government and he was the Prime Minister.
 Started to work to repair the country.
 The government faced serious challenges, which including the rehabilitation of millions
of people displaced in 1971, organizing the supply of food, health aids and other
necessities.
 Mujib helped Bangladesh enter into the United Nations and the Non-Aligned
Movement.
 He travelled to the U.S, U.K and other European nations to obtain humanitarian and
developmental assistance for the nation.
 He charged the parliament to write a new constitution, and proclaimed the four
fundamental principles of nationalism, secularism, democracy and socialism, ― known as
‘Mujibism’.
 In 1973 election Mujib and his party gaining power with an absolute majority.
 In 1974 Bangladesh experienced the deadliest famine ever, which killed around 1.5
million Bangladeshi people from hunger .

11. ASSASINATION:
On 15 August 1975, a group of junior army officers invaded the presidential residence
with tanks and killed Mujib, his family and personal staff. Only his daughters Sheikh
Hasina and Sheikh Rehana, who were visiting West Germany, escaped. They were banned
from returning to Bangladesh. The coup was planned by disgruntled Awami League
colleagues and military officers, which included Mujib's colleague and former confidanté
Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, who became his immediate successor. There was intense
speculation in the media accusing the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency of having
instigated the plot. Lawrence Lifschultz has alleged that the CIA was involved in the coup
and assassination, basing his assumption on statements by the then-U.S. ambassador in
Dhaka, Eugene Booster.
Mujib's death plunged the nation into many years of political turmoil. The coup leaders
were soon overthrown and a series of counter-coups and political assassinations
paralyzed the country. Order was largely restored after a coup in 1977 gave control to
the army chief Ziaur Rahman. Declaring himself President in 1978, Ziaur Rahman signed
the Indemnity Ordinance, giving immunity from prosecution to the men who plotted
Mujib's assassination and overthrow.

12. ‘Great respect to this real hero’.