Remembering Tajuddin on his 96th birth anniversary

The 96th birth anniversary of Tajuddin Ahmad, the first Prime Minister of independent Bangladesh and one of the four national leaders, was observed on Friday. Tajuddin, a great man and a political logician to the core, was born on this day in 1925 at Dardariya village in Kapasia, Gazipur.  Since the 1947 partition, Tajuddin Ahmad played a very important role in all movements from anti-communalism to the Language Movement to the 1971 Liberation War. A close confidante of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Tajuddin was the general secretary of the Awami League in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  Always actively associated with politics for the emancipation of people, he coordinated with Awami League’s election campaign in 1970, in which the party won a historic parliamentary majority to form the government. Read: Tajuddin Ahmed’s 95th birth anniversary observed Tajuddin had led the wartime provisional government during the Liberation War of Bangladesh 1971.  On December 22, 1971, Tajuddin returned to Dhaka after the war. After the independence of Bangladesh, Tajuddin served as the Prime Minister till the historic return of Bangabandhu to his homeland on January 10, 1972. Later, he served as the Minister of Finance and Planning in the cabinet of…
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