Between 19, he was an elected member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly, where he was Prime Minister and Leader of the House for six years. Huq was a member of the Central Legislative Assembly from 1934 to 1936. He was also a member of the Congress Party's committee enquiring into the Amritsar massacre. In 1919, he had the unique distinction of concurrently serving as President of the All India Muslim League and General Secretary of the Indian National Congress. Huq was a key figure in the Indian independence movement and then the Pakistan movement. Huq was first elected to the Bengal Legislative Council from Dhaka in 1913 and served on the council for 21 years until 1934. He also served as the first and longest Prime Minister of Bengal during the British Raj.īorn in 1873 to a Bengali Muslim family in British Bengal, Huq held important political offices in the subcontinent, including President of the All India Muslim League (1916-1921), General Secretary of the Indian National Congress (1916-1918), Education Minister of Bengal (1924), Mayor of Calcutta (1935), Prime Minister of Bengal (1937-1943), Advocate General of East Bengal (1947-1952), Chief Minister of East Bengal (1954), Home Minister of Pakistan (1955-1956) and Governor of East Pakistan (1956-1958). Abul Kasem Fazlul Huq ( Bengali: আবুল কাশেম ফজলুল হক, Urdu: ابو القاسم فضل الحق 26 October 1873 - 27 April 1962), popularly known as Sher-e-Bangla ( Lion of Bengal), was a Pakistani Bengali lawyer and politician who presented the Lahore Resolution which had the objective of creating an independent Pakistan.
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