Ashab-ul-Haq explained

Ashab-ul-Haq
Office:Member of Bangladesh Parliament
Term Start:1973
Term End:1976
Party:Awami League

Ashab-ul-Haq was an Awami League politician and the former member of parliament of Kushtia-7.

Early life

Haq was born on 4 December 1921 in Chuadanga District, Bengal Presidency, British India.

Career

In 1970, Huq was elected to the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly. During the Bangladesh Liberation War, Haq served as the leader of the free Bengali administration in Kushtia District.[1] He was the chief advisor to the Bangladesh Liberation Forces in the south-west region of Bangladesh.[2] He carried a revolver made by Webley & Scott.

Ashab-ul-Haq was elected to parliament from Kushtia-7 as an Awami League candidate in 1973.[3]

Haq was arrested on 17 August 1975 after the 15 August 1975 Bangladeshi coup d'état in which President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed. In 1977, he was sentenced to five years in prison by a martial law court. He was released from prison in 1979 after which he left politics and resumed his medical career. He was one of the witnesses of the Jail Killing that took place in Dhaka Central Jail on 3 November 1975.

Death

Ashab-ul-Haq died on 7 October 2010.[4]

Notes and References

  1. 1971-04-19 . PAKISTAN: The Battle of Kushtia . en-US . Time . 2023-03-27 . 0040-781X.
  2. News: 2021-12-10 . Freedom in the making: Bangladesh by Anne de Henning – in pictures . en-GB . the Guardian . 2023-03-27 . 0261-3077.
  3. Web site: "List of 1st Parliament Members" . Bangladesh Parliament . bn . 6 March 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180909153327/http://www.parliament.gov.bd/images/pdf/formermp/1st.pdf . 9 September 2018.
  4. News: হক . মেসবাহ উল . bn:একজন সাহসী ও সত্ রাজনীতিকের প্রতিকৃতি . https://archive.ittefaq.com.bd/index.php?ref=MjBfMTJfMDRfMTNfMV80XzFfOTA1NjM= . 6 March 2021 . The Daily Ittefaq . https://archive.today/20200826133217/https://archive.ittefaq.com.bd/index.php?ref=MjBfMTJfMDRfMTNfMV80XzFfOTA1NjM= . 26 August 2020.