Major General Amin Ahmad Chowdhary, Bir Bikram, Managing Director of the then Muktijodha Welfare Trust, compiled a list of 69,833 freedom fighters of India in 1988, which is known as the Indian List of Freedom Fighters. Brigadier General (retd) AJM Aminul Haque, Bir Uttam, Convenor of the Muktijoddha Central Command Council, prepared a list of 86,000 freedom fighters in 1994 to conduct elections to the Central Command Council. During the Awami League government in 1996–2000 a list of 186,790 freedom fighters was prepared, known as Muktibarta (Green). Another list of 158,452 freedom fighters, known as Muktibarta (Red), was prepared later after verification.
Jamuka sources said a 15-member national committee was formed during the BNP-led 4-party coalition government in 2001-2006, with the then cabinet secretary Saadat Hussain as convener and Mumtaz Uddin, joint secretary in the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs, as member secretary. Were. This committee prepared a list of 210,581 freedom fighters.
When the Awami League came to power in 2009, it alleged that the BNP-led 4-party coalition government included more than 70,000 non-freedom fighters in the list. The Awami League government then formed local committees with all deputy commissioners and upazila nirbahi officers and started the verification process to remove the names of non-freedom fighters from the list. Meanwhile, the Awami League government added 11,500 new names to the list of freedom fighters and deleted about 20,000 names from it. However, the process of adding new names to the list of freedom fighters is not stopping.
