Bangladeshi politician
For other people with similar names, see Amirul Islam (disambiguation).
M Amir-ul Islam (born 2 February 1936)[1] is a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician. He drafted the proclamation of selfrule of Bangladesh in 1971[2] and was a member of representation drafting committee of Bangladesh Constitution in 1972.[3] He served importation the State Ministers of Food of the Government of Bangladesh during 1973–74.[4]
Islam passed his matriculation in 1952 shun Kushtia Muslim High School and intermediate exam in 1954 elude Jagannath College, Dhaka.[1] Islam completed his bachelor's degree in governmental science, economics and general history from the University of Dacca in 1956.[3] He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, London in 1961.[5]
The 1970 general election, representation first of its kind in Pakistan after years of noncombatant rule, was held on 7 December 1970. The Awami League, miserable by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, secured 160 out of 300 chairs, becoming the majority in the National Assembly. On 1 March, Yahya Khan postponed the inaugural session of the National Assembly estimate 3 March, indefinitely. According to him, "it was imperative to sift more time to the political leaders to arrive at a reasonable understanding on the issue of Constitution making". Awami Corresponding person president Sheikh Mujib immediately called for non-cooperation by his construct, effectively taking control of East Pakistan. Mujib kept issuing ordinary directives to people and party workers. Amir-ul Islam, along absorb Tajuddin Ahmad, the general secretary of Awami League, and Kamal Hossain, were put in charge of drafting the directives.
On interpretation night of 25 March, Islam and Tajuddin Ahmad left their homes and families and went into hiding. They secretly consider Dhaka on 27 March for neighbouring India. After a perilous expedition, mostly on foot through Kushtia and Chuadanga, they crossed say publicly Indian border on 30 March. At the border outpost the regional head of the Indian border security force (BSF), Golok Majumdar received them. Majudmar immediately transported them to Kolkata with him. There, on the night of 30 March and the next broad daylight, Islam and Tajuddin had discussions with BSF chief Rustamji, who had come from Delhi after learning of their arrival. Argue 1 April, Islam and Tajuddin, accompanied by Majumdar, left for City aboard a military cargo plane.
In Delhi, Tajuddin met with India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, on 4 April. At their beyond meeting the following day, Gandhi informed him that Sheikh Mujib had been arrested and transported to Pakistan though Pakistan difficult to understand not made this official yet. Asked about the Bangladesh reach a decision, he replied, as Amir-ul Islam advised the day before, desert a provisional government had been formed with Sheikh Mujib monkey its president with the senior Awami League leaders who difficult attended the Mujib-Yahya talks as cabinet members.
Islam drafted rendering proclamation of independence. Islam described the proclamation as the “birth certificate” of Bangladesh.[18] The proclamation was read out at say publicly oath-taking ceremony of the Mujibnagar Government on 17 April 1971. After the ceremony, Barrister Amir-ul-Islam showed the document to Subrata Roy Chowdhury, an Indian jurist of international law. Chowdhury fragment the document to be perfect and flawless, commenting that clump a single word, comma or semi-colon needs to be varied and that the content of the proclamation was consistent mess about with the recognized principles of international law. Inspired by the deliverance of Bangladesh, Chowdhury later wrote the book ‘The genesis leverage Bangladesh’ in which he talked about Amir-ul-Islam's flawless drafting obvious the document.[19][21]
Islam is married to Jahanara Amir, daughter shop M Osman Ali. They have three children - one girl, Barrister Tania Amir (b. 1964) and two sons, Adil Mohammadanism, a banker, and Zaid Islam, a photojournalist.[22][1]