nawab sir khwaja salimullah presided over the first session of muslim league at dhaka.
nawab sir khwaja salimullah presided over the first session of muslim league at dhaka.
who presided over the first session of muslim league at dhaka?
nawab sir khwaja salimullah
the establishment of the university was a compensation of the annulment of the 1905 partition of bengal. the partition had established muslim majority eastern bengal and assam as a separate province, with dhaka as its capital. all india muslim league, newly formed in dhaka, wholeheartedly supported the move. however, the partition was abolished in 1911 due to severe opposition from indian national congress and bengali hindus. deeply hurt by the decision of annulment of bengal partition, a muslim delegation led by nawab sir khwaja salimullah bahadur, the then nawab of dhaka demanded a university be setup in dhaka. to appease the majority muslim masses of east bengal, lord curzon agreed and declared that a university as a center of excellence would be established in dhaka. nawab sir khwaja salimullah, the nawab of dhaka, who played a pioneering role in establishing the university in dhaka donated 600 acres of land from his estate for this purpose.
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at the time of pakistani independence in 1947 the muslim league was the only major party in pakistan and claimed the allegiance of almost every muslim in the country. however, mohammad ali jinnah had other plans after his appointment as the first governor-general of the new state. his maiden speech to the constituent assembly on 11 august 1947 spelled out, as magna carta of the future agenda, each and every important feature of pakistan's polity that was based on equality of all citizens, federal parliamentary democracy and rule of law to name a few of them. he also had his own perceptions about the party he was heading. he thought that the all-india muslim league must have a constitutional and legal successor as an organisation that was to rule the new born country. to achieve the target, he convened in november 1947 a session of the aiml council and it was held in karachi on 14 and 15 december upon invitation sent by the party's convener liaquat ali khan, who had taken over as the first prime minister. the council decided to establish two organisations of the aiml. its nomenclature in india was to remain the same while it was muslim league for the new state. hussein shaheed suhrawardy, who had been the aiml-nominated prime minister of bengal in 1937 and held the same office after 1946 elections, did not agree to 'muslim league' as the name of aiml in pakistan. he pleaded the word "muslim" had lost its efficacy after independence and the organisation might be named as pakistan league. moreover, he claimed that muslim league's objective of muslim nationalism was unrealistic and instead pakistani nationalism should be focused on. suhrawardy's suggestion was not accepted, thus, he parted ways with the party to found the awami league in 1949. this was to serve the first shock to the country's political structure. the first party convention of muslim league held in karachi in february 1948, elected chaudhry khaliquzzaman as the chief organiser and elected a new pml council. khaliquzzaman appointed provincial organising committees. the first meeting of the new party council, held in karachi in april 1949, elected khaleequz zaman as the party president and also incorporated a new clause in the constitution according to which no party office-bearer could become a minister or accept any office of benefit but events that followed in the wake of differences in muslim league ministries in sindh and punjab, led to the exit of sindh chief minister khuhro and the elevation of pir ealhi bukhsh as the new chief minister. in punjab, sikandar hayat allied with mumtaz daultana to controvert chief minister nawab zulfiqar khan mamdot. these skirmishes weakened the ruling party. it was in this background that khan abdul ghaffar khan, who already had a meeting with the quaid-i-azam in peshawar on may 18
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