Mohammad Shahabuddin first met Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Pabna in 1966 at the height of discussions around the Six Point Charter, when the Father of the Nation invited him to take to the streets, beginning his career at a young age.
That was just after completing his SSC exam. Popularly known as Chuppu, Shahabuddin gritted his teeth on student politics. He fought in the Liberation War, built a career in law and the judiciary, and later took charge of important state organizations over the next six decades.
Now he is on the verge of becoming the 22nd head of state of Bangladesh.
The Awami League has chosen Shahabuddin as its candidate for the upcoming presidential election. A delegation of the ruling party, led by General Secretary Obaidul Kader, submitted its nomination papers at the Election Commission headquarters in Dhaka on Sunday.
The Awami League currently holds 305 of the 350 seats in Parliament. As a result, Shahabuddin was destined to be Hamid’s successor as head of state.
Shahabuddin was born in 1948 in Shivrampur, Jubilee Tankpara area of Pabna and spent most of his childhood in Pabna city.
She studied at the former Gandhi Girls’ School till the third standard and went to the Radhanagar Majumdar Academy the following year to obtain her matriculation (SSC) certificate in 1966. Politics.
He passed his Intermediate (HSC) examination from Edward College in 1968 and 1971 and graduated as a Bachelor of Science in 1972. He later obtained a master’s degree in psychology from Rajshahi University in 1974 and an LLB degree from Shaheed Advocate Aminuddin Law College the following year.
Student League, War of Liberation and Jail Time
Shahabuddin wrote about his initial meeting with Bangabandhu in a column published in bdnews24.com Opinion, extolling his admiration for the day when Abdur Rab Baga Miya, the then general secretary of the Pabna unit of the Awami League, introduced him to Sheikh Mujib. , introduced to M. Mansoor Ali and Sheikh Mujeeb. AHM Kamruzzaman are among other leaders.
Referring to how Sheikh Mujib fondly called him at the meeting, Shahabuddin wrote: “At last he said to me – ‘Come [conference], I had just completed my SSC, I was not even a college student then. How much do I understand politics? But I still can’t forget the affection that lives in the voice of a 5ft 11in man.