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Eminent personalities

Abdul Malek Lawyer

The late Abdul Malek Ukil, a prominent politician and wise lawyer from Noakhali district, was born in Rajapur village of Sudharam police station in Noakhali district. His father's name was Maulana Mohammad Munshi Chand Mia and his mother's name was Nurunnesa.

He obtained his BA and MA in Political Science from Dhaka University in 1949 and his LLB degree in 1952. Early in his career, he joined the Noakhali Bar as a lawyer in 1952 and later joined the Dhaka High Court in 1984. He was a Bengali for the creation of Pakistan in 1947. He took part in the campaign in Bihar and Assam. He was close to the great language movement. Due to the movement, he was imprisoned on March 11, 1948 and February 22, 1952. He joined the Awami League in 1953. In 1956, he was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly as a candidate of Awami League in the Noakhali by-election of the then Provincial Council. In 1972, he was re-elected as a member of the provincial council and unanimously elected as the leader of the parliamentary party of the Awami League in the Constituent Assembly. In 1975, he was elected to the provincial council for the third time. Mr. Malek Ukil presided over the historic All Pakistan National Conference held at Gulberg in Lahore, Pakistan. It was at this conference that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman first presented the historic 6-point program of the Charter of Liberation of the People of Bengal. He was elected a member of the Pakistan National Assembly in the 1970 elections. It was at the conference that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman presented the historic 6-point program for the liberation of the people of Bengal. He was elected a member of the Pakistan National Assembly in the 1970 elections. It was at the conference that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman presented the historic 6-point program for the liberation of the people of Bengal. He was elected a member of the Pakistan National Assembly in the 1970 elections.

The late Abdul Malek Ukil actively participated in the great war of liberation in 1971. He visited many countries of the world as a representative of the Awami Parliamentary Party to create public opinion in favor of the liberation war of Bangladesh. In independent Bangladesh, Mr. Malek Ukil was elected Member of Parliament as a nominated member of the Awami League in the parliamentary elections held in 1973 and 1976. In the first cabinet of the independent country, he was the Minister of Health and Family Planning, the Minister of Home Affairs and later the Speaker of the National Assembly. After 1975, in the bad days of Awami League, he became the leader of the party and in 1966 he was elected the president of the party. He died on 16 October 1966.

 

Former Chief Justice Barrister Badrul Haider Chowdhury

Former Chief Justice of Bangladesh Barrister Badrul Haider Chowdhury was born in 1925 in the village of Nursonapur under Noakhali Sudharam Police Station. His father was the late Khan Bahadur Mohammad Gazi Chowdhury. He obtained his MA from Calcutta University in 1949 and his LLB degree from Dhaka University in 1951.

He passed the bar from London in 1955 and joined the bar of the Dhaka High Court. He became a High Court judge in 1981 and was promoted to a Supreme Court judge in 1986. He retired as Chief Justice in 1990.

He died on 14 February 1996 at the age of 84.

Mining engineer Obaid Ullah

Obaid Ullah, the first mining engineer of undivided Bengal in British India, was born in 18 Sallaghatia village under Sudharam police station in Noakhali district. His father's name is Munshi Ramzan Ali and mother's name is Jamila Khatun. He obtained his matriculation from Barisal District School in 1910, his engineering degree from Shibpur Mining College and his BSc degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England.

At the end of his education, he first started his career in Bhopal with a job in the well-known Shatales Company of India. News of his success as a mining engineer spread all over India. God gave him such a talent that he could test the soil and tell where the mines were. Upon hearing the news of his success, in 1919, Afghan King Amanullah took him home with a higher salary. Obaid Ullah moved to Noakhali in 1929 after King Amanullah abdicated due to internal strife in the country.

Returning to Noakhali, he submitted a plan to the then British-ruled central government to preserve the architectural monuments and official residence buildings of the old Noakhali city built during the Mughal period from the Coral Grass of the Meghna. But Sir Edwess, the chief chief engineer of India, did not consider his offer and returned home empty-handed from Shimla. With full confidence and trust in his work plan, he employed more than 5,000 workers to fill the soil and on January 30, 1930, he built an incredible event by building a dam on the river. Which cannot be believed without seeing it with the naked eye. Mining engineer Obaid Ullah showed that the impossible can be achieved by human will and sacrifice. However, when his dam was later cut off by the influential insidious mahal, the city of Noakhali was finally admitted to the river in the turbulent flow of the river and was shifted to Maijdi in 1949. Nevertheless, the benefits of the present Beri Dam, which is being built around the coastal areas of the district, are due to the contribution of the late Obaid Ullah Engineer.

Ashirbad Kshanjanma of Greater Noakhali District was also the Chairman of Noakhali Municipal Council and a member of the District Board. He died on 14 February 1936 at the age of 80.

 

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