1. Moudud Ahmed was a Bangladeshi lawyer and politician.
32 Facts About Moudud Ahmed
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Moudud Ahmed was a standing committee member of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
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Moudud Ahmed served as the post master general of Bangladesh after independence.
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Moudud Ahmed was born on 24 May 1940 to a Bengali Muslim family of Bhuiyans in the village of Manikpur in Noakhali District, Bengal Province.
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Moudud Ahmed was the fourth child of Maulana Momtazuddin Ahmad and Begum Ambia Khatun.
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Moudud Ahmed's father was a leading Islamic scholar of Hadith who taught at Calcutta Alia Madrasa, Presidency College, Calcutta and Dacca University.
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Moudud Ahmed obtained his BA and MA in political science from the University of Dacca.
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Moudud Ahmed was called to the English Bar at Lincoln's Inn in London in 1966.
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Moudud Ahmed accompanied the Bengali delegation led by Sheikh Mujib to the Rawalpindi Round Table Conference with Field Marshal Ayub Khan in 1969.
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Moudud Ahmed witnessed many important developments in the run up to Bangladesh's independence.
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Moudud Ahmed joined the Provisional Government of Bangladesh in Calcutta during the Bangladesh War of Independence.
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Moudud Ahmed was one of the founding members of the 33 member Committee for Civil Liberties and Legal Aid which was established to protect the opposition politicians and members of civil society who were facing the wrath of the government on 31 March 1974.
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Moudud Ahmed was the first Postmaster General of Bangladesh Post Office after the Independence of Bangladesh.
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Moudud Ahmed was jailed on orders from Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in December 1974, but was later released.
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Moudud Ahmed was elected to parliament from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 1979.
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In 1985, Moudud Ahmed joined the newly formed Jatiya Party of Lt General Hussain Muhammad Ershad.
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Moudud Ahmed was appointed again as Deputy Prime Minister in the cabinet and held the portfolios of the Industries Ministry and the Communications Ministry.
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Moudud Ahmed was invited for talks with several Western leaders, including with Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street.
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Moudud Ahmed was elevated to the post of Vice President of Bangladesh in 1989.
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Moudud Ahmed resigned in December 1990 to make way for Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed to become acting president and lead the transition to parliamentary democracy.
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Moudud Ahmed was elected to parliament while in jail in 1996.
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Moudud Ahmed was reelected for the fifth time in 2001.
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Moudud Ahmed was arrested again in 2013 by the Awami League government.
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Moudud Ahmed's family told The Guardian that the country was turning into a prison under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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Moudud Ahmed joined his party in boycotting the 2014 general election.
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Moudud Ahmed described his eviction as "political vengeance" by the Awami League government.
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Moudud Ahmed had lived in the house for more than 40 years.
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Moudud Ahmed was a practicing barrister in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.
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Moudud Ahmed was a fellow at Heidelberg University in Germany and a visiting fellow at Harvard University in the United States.
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Moudud Ahmed was a member of the Elliott School's International Council.
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On 30 December 2020, Moudud Ahmed was hospitalized in Dhaka due to a decrease in haemoglobin levels and eventually suffered a stroke.
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Moudud Ahmed was hospitalized for pulmonary congestion and kidney complications in Singapore on 1 February 2021.