1. Shawkat Ali was a politician and a leader of the Bengali Language Movement.
17 Facts About Shawkat Ali
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Shawkat Ali was one of the founders of Awami Muslim League - which later became the Awami League and is the Bangladesh Awami League.
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Shawkat Ali was a member of all three Rastrabhasa Sangram Parishad.
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Shawkat Ali was the Chief Organizer of the Dhaka City Awami League during the 1950s.
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Shawkat Ali was born in a prominent Sunni Muslim family in Gandaria, Dhaka, East Bengal, on April 20,1918.
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Shawkat Ali's father Shamser Ali was a prominent businessman in the area and his mother Meherunnisa Khanam was a housewife.
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Shawkat Ali lost his mother when he was two years old.
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Shawkat Ali was raised by his father and maternal uncles and aunts.
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Shawkat Ali went for higher studies in Dhaka University but could not finish due to political involvement.
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Shawkat Ali was elected as one of the members of that committee.
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Nineteen activists were injured that day and Shawkat Ali was the most seriously hurt.
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Shawkat Ali led and organised and led many of the protests, rallies, and picketing during the tragic and fateful days of February 1952.
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Shawkat Ali was arrested again on March 2,1952, and was imprisoned for a long time.
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Shawkat Ali suffered a stroke on August 15,1975, upon hearing the news of the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
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Shawkat Ali died on August 18,1975, at the Holy Family Hospital, Dhaka.
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On 1960, Shawkat Ali married Rahima Khatun, the vice-principal of Fazlul Haq Mohila College in Dhaka.
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In 2011, Shawkat Ali was awarded the Ekushey Padak one of the highest civilian awards in Bangladesh.