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Abul Mansur Ahmed

Died in 1979

Abul Mansur Ahmad, born Ahmad Ali Farazi on 3 September 1898 in Dhanikhola, near Trishal, in the Mymensingh district, studied in Dhaka, then law at Ripon College in Calcutta, and practised in Mymensingh. A journalist, he founded the daily Ittehad in Calcutta in 1946. Having moved from the Congress to the Krishak Praja party, then to the Awami League, he drafted the programme of the United Front in 1954, was minister of education of East Bengal, then federal minister of commerce in 1956, at times serving as acting Prime Minister. He died in Dhaka on 18 March 1979.

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