Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the founding father and leader of Bangladesh. He was born in 1920 and served as the country's first President from 1971-1975 and as Prime Minister from 1972 until his assassination in 1975. As a young man, he was involved in the independence movement from British rule and later advocated for greater autonomy and self-governance for East Pakistan within Pakistan. He was imprisoned several times for his political activities. His Awami League party won a decisive victory in the 1970 elections, giving him a mandate to push for greater self-rule, which led to Bangladesh declaring independence in 1971 after West Pakistan launched a violent crackdown. As the newly independent country's leader, Mujib faced enormous challenges

1. Welcome To
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2. My Favorite Person
BANGABANDHU SHEIKH
MUJIBUR RAHMAN
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3. About
 17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975 was the founding leader
of Bangladesh.
 He served twice as the country's President and was its
strongman premier between 1972 and 1975.
 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was the leader of the Awami League.
 He is popularly known as the Bangabandhu.
 His daughter Sheikh Hasina Wajed is the current Prime Minister of
Bangladesh.
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4. Personal details
 Born : On 17 March 1920 in Tungipara in GOPALGANJ.
 Father : Sheikh Lutfar Rahman.
 Mother : Sheikh Fojilatunnesa.
 Position on family : Third in four sisters and two brothers .
 Childhood name : KHOKA.
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5.  Married : At the age of eighteen, Mujib married
Begum Lutfunnesa.
 Children : Two daughters and three sons.
Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Rehana
Sheikh Kamal
Sheikh Jamal
Sheikh Rasel
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6. Education
 Primary education : In 1929, entered into class three at Gopalgonj
Public School.
 High school : Passed matriculation (S.S.C) from Gopalgonj Missionary
School in 1942.
 College life : IA (Twelfth Grade) from Islamia College, Calcutta in 1944
and BA from the same College in 1947.
 University : In 1947 he admitted into the UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA to study
law but was unable to complete it, because, he was expelled from the
University in early 1949 on charge of "inciting the fourth-class employees"
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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.
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8. Leader of 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 programme, calling it 'Our
[Bengalis'] 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.
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9. 1970 election and liberation war 9
 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”.

10.  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.
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11.  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.
 Then we get our own flag.
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1970 election and liberation war

12. Governing Bangladesh 12
 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.

13.  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
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14. Assassination 14
ON AUGUST 15, 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 WAJED AND
SHEIKH REHANA, WHO WERE VISITING WEST
GERMANY, ESCAPED.

15. Criticism and legacy
 During Mujib's tenure as the premier leader, Muslim religious leaders and some politicians
intensely criticised Mujib's adoption of state secularism.
 He alienated some segments of nationalists and those in the military who feared
Bangladesh would become too dependent upon India.
 They worried about becoming a satellite state by taking extensive aid from the Indian
government and allying with that country on many foreign and regional affairs.
 Mujib's imposition of one-party rule and suppression of political opposition
with censorship and abuse of the judiciary, also alienated large segments of the population.
 Historians and political scientists think that it derailed Bangladesh's development as a
democratic state, contributing to its subsequent political instability and violence.
 The economy also collapsed due to widespread corruption in the same period. Lawrence
Lifschultz wrote in the Far Eastern Economic Review in 1974 that Bangladeshis considered
“the corruption and malpractices and plunder of national wealth" "unprecedented
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16. Analyzing Mujib’s trait theory 16
 WAS BLESSED FROM BOYHOOD WITH LEADERSHIP
 STRONG PERSONALITY
 DOMINANCE ON THE PEOPLE
 CHARISMA
 FAIRNESS
 JUDGMENT
 AMBITION
 SELF CONFIDENCE
 ACHIEVEMENT
 ABILITY TO FORMULATE A CLEAR VISION
 DEDICATION

17. Mujib was transformational leader 17
 INSPIRED HIS FOLLOWERS FOR MANY
MOVEMENT.
 INFLUENCED AND MOTIVATED PEOPLE FOR
FREEDOM FIGHTING.
 CREATED POSITIVE CHANGE TO THE
FOLLOWERS.
 HIS CHARISMA WORKED AS THE SOURCE
OF NATIONAL UNITY AND STRENGTH IN TIME
OF LIBERATION WAR.

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19. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Leadership 19
Before liberation After liberation
Source of power Referent, Legitimate,
Reward power
Coercive power
Types of leadership Democratic Autocratic
Style counseling
theory
Consideration behaviour
Employee center
Initiating structure
Job center
Contingency theory Subordinate- centered Boss- centered
Leadership Grid Team management
(9, 9)
Authority compliance
(9 , 1)

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