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Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy\u00a0<\/b>was an eminent\u00a0<\/span>Bengali<\/a>\u00a0nationalist, liberal democrat, politician and statesman during the first half of the twentieth century. He served as the\u00a0<\/span>Prime Minister of Bengal<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<\/span>British India<\/a>\u00a0and was the\u00a0<\/span>fifth<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Prime Minister of Pakistan<\/a>.<\/span>[1]<\/a><\/sup>[1]<\/a><\/sup>[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/address>\n

Born into a prominent\u00a0Bengali Muslim<\/a>\u00a0family, Suhrawardy was educated at\u00a0Oxford<\/a>, and joined the\u00a0Swaraj Party<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Chittaranjan Das<\/a>\u00a0upon returning to India in 1921. He became the Mayor of\u00a0Calcutta<\/a>, the largest city in British India, during the 1930s, and later, as a member of the\u00a0All-India Muslim League<\/a>, assumed the premiership of Bengal in the mid-1940s. Along with\u00a0Sarat Chandra Bose<\/a>, Suhrawardy mooted the\u00a0United Bengal<\/a>\u00a0proposal, in an attempt to prevent the\u00a0Partition of Bengal<\/a>. Following the partition of India, he became a leading populist statesman of\u00a0East Pakistan<\/a>, leaving the\u00a0Muslim League<\/a>\u00a0to join the newly formed centre-left\u00a0Awami League<\/a>\u00a0in 1952. Along with\u00a0A K Fazlul Huq<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Maulana Bhashani<\/a>, he led the pan-Bengali\u00a0United Front<\/a>\u00a0alliance to a resounding victory in the 1954 East Bengal elections, which witnessed a crushing defeat of the Muslim League in East Pakistan.[1]<\/a><\/sup>[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

In 1956, the\u00a0Awami League<\/a>\u00a0formed an alliance with the\u00a0Republican Party<\/a>\u00a0to lead a coalition\u00a0federal government<\/a>\u00a0in Pakistan. Suhrawardy became prime minister and pledged to resolve the energy crises, address economic disparities between East and West Pakistan, and strengthen the armed forces. His initiatives included\u00a0supply side economic policies<\/a>, planning\u00a0nuclear power and energy<\/a>\u00a0and reorganizing and reforming the Pakistani military. In foreign policy, he pioneered a strategic partnership with the\u00a0United States<\/a>. Faced with pressure from the bureaucracy and business community over his policies in aid distribution, nationalization and opposition to the\u00a0One Unit<\/a>\u00a0scheme, he was forced to resign on October 10, 1957, under threat of dismissal by President\u00a0Iskandar Mirza<\/a>. He was banned from public life by the military junta of General\u00a0Ayub Khan<\/a>. Suhrawardy died in 1963 in\u00a0Beirut<\/a>,\u00a0Lebanon<\/a>\u00a0after suffering a massive heart attack.[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy\u00a0was an eminent\u00a0Bengali\u00a0nationalist, liberal democrat, politician and statesman during the first half of the twentieth century. He served as the\u00a0Prime Minister of Bengal\u00a0in\u00a0British India\u00a0and was the\u00a0fifth\u00a0Prime Minister of Pakistan.[1][1][2] Born into a prominent\u00a0Bengali Muslim\u00a0family, Suhrawardy was educated at\u00a0Oxford, and joined the\u00a0Swaraj Party\u00a0of\u00a0Chittaranjan Das\u00a0upon returning to India in 1921. He became the Mayor of\u00a0Calcutta,Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11","category-12","category-dow-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49NEs-tw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedowdays.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedowdays.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedowdays.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedowdays.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedowdays.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedowdays.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedowdays.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedowdays.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedowdays.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedowdays.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}