The document discusses A.K. Fazlul Huq, a Bengali nationalist leader who proposed the Lahore Resolution in 1940 while serving as the chief minister of Bengal. The Lahore Resolution called for independent states for Muslims in India. However, Huq realized that the All-India Muslim League was more focused on West Pakistan, not Bengal (East Pakistan). As a Bengali nationalist, his priorities were the rural Muslim people of Eastern Bengal. After partition, he continued advocating for the people of East Bengal/East Pakistan as a politician and governor.

1. THE LAHORE RESOLUTION

2. A. K. Fazlul Huq
Sher-e-Bangla (Tiger of
Bengal)
26 October 1873—27 April
1962)
Born in Barishal
Founding the All-India
Muslim League in Dhaka
1906
 advocate and present the
Lahore Resolution in 1940

3. A. K. Fazlul Huq
 His Political Strategy was to make the rural middle class in his
power base¨’
 In 1935, he founded the social democratic Agriculturalist Tenant
Party (Krishak Praja Party)
 With the objectives of relieving the peasants of the oppression
of Zamidars and moneylenders

4. The Lahore Resolution
 In 1937, Fazlul haque was appointed
as the chief minister of Bengal
 In 1940, Huq proposed the Lahore
Resolution
 Later he realized that All-India
Muslim League was mainly concerned
with west Pakistan not Bengal (East-
Pakistan)
 His mind was mainly concerned with
Bengal-primarily its rural Muslim
people in Eastern Bengal
Muslim leaders from across British India at
the All-India Muslim League Working
Committee session in Lahore

5. Political Career : East Pakistan
 After the Partition of India in 1947, he moved to Pakistan and led the
United Front government in East Bengal, serving as Chief Minister and
Governor
 In 1953, he founded the Krishak Shramik Party (KSP) and formed the
united front with Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Shurawardy
to fight the election battle in 1954
 His leadership and Popularity was the dominant factor for the landslide
victory of the United Front
 He became the chief minister of East Bengal in 1954 and governor of East
Pakistan in 1956

6. A. K. Fazlul Huq
 He was a dreamer of Bangali nation; who always
fought for freeing his people from exploitation
and deprivation
 A lifelong Bengali nationalist, he is regarded as
one of the forerunning leaders in the
independence of Bangladesh