He wanted Pakistan, but stood against the rulers later

When AKM Rafique Ullah Chowdhury was a teen, he campaigned for a Muslim-majority Pakistan; the political motion succeeded ultimately. However after the creation of the Pakistan dominion, the youth become a vocal towards the oppressions by Pakistani rulers.

What helped reconfigure his political philosophy in simply 10 years was the coercive choice to make “Urdu and Urdu alone” the official language for a state with a Bangla-speaking majority.

Rafique Ullah Chowdhury as an activist of the Tamaddun Majlish – a cultural organisation that shepherded the Language Motion in 1952 – led the Language Motion from the forefront in Chattogram.

He was born in 1923 in a Chattogram elite household. Each of his mother and father – Halim Ullah Chowdhury and Nazmun Nesa Chowdhury – have been zamindar descendants of Sandwip and Feni.

After receiving a Maktab-based spiritual training, Rafique Ullah Chowdhury was admitted to Katgarh Golam Nabi Main Faculty in 1932. He handed matriculation (secondary college certificates or SSC) from Muslim Excessive Faculty in Chattogram in 1941.

He handed intermediate (at present HSC or the upper secondary certificates) from Kolkata Islamia School in 1943 and earned the Bachelor’s Diploma from Kolkata Metropolis School in 1946.

He was a member of “Nikhil Banga Muslim Chhatra League” since his college days. Whereas finding out at Kolkata Metropolis School, he was a Pakistan Motion activist, and received arrested by Kolkata Police in 1946 on “Captain Rashid Ali Day” – a mass rebellion towards the then British rulers.

Although Rafique Ullah was supposed to participate within the grasp’s examination from Aligarh College in 1948, he moved to Chattogram after the 1947 Partition of Bengal. Subsequently, he joined the Tamaddun Majlish.

In 1952, he performed an energetic function in Chattogram on behalf of the organisation in urgent demand for Bangla.

On 16 October 1959, he married Begum Jolekha Khatun Chameli Chowdhury. Rafique Ullah Chowdhury served Khilafat-e-Rabbani Get together because the district secretary and later as a central committee presidium member from 1953 to 1971.

He contested the Pakistan Nationwide Meeting elections in 1962, 1965 and 1970.

In 1979, he was elected as a member of parliament from Chattogram-3 constituency from Gano Entrance. Within the first upazila parishad election in 1985, he was elected upazila chairman of Sandwip.

He resigned from the put up in 1989 protesting the then autocrat authorities.

He established the Jamiatul Falah Mosque in Chattogram. In 2011, he was honoured by the Chattogram Metropolis Company with the “Swadhinata Smarak Sammanana Padak”.

Rafique Ullah Chowdhury handed away on 22 September 2011 whereas present process remedy at a Chattogram hospital.

Brand of Nagad. Image: Courtesy

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Brand of Nagad. Image: Courtesy