Abul Kashem Fazlul Hoaque

 Abul Kashem Fazlul Hoaque was a brave and intelligent leader. He was known as Sher-e-Bangla/Tiger of Bengal. He passed the  Entrance examinationa   in 1890. He then obtained a B. A. degree from Presidency College. He was very close to Ashtosh Mukherjee, father of Shyamaprasad Mukherjee.

Then being alienated from the Congress party where he served as it’s General Secretary in 1916 to 1918,  he launched the Nikhil Proja Samiti. He took government service and advocacy as career meanwhile in his time. In 1935, he was chosen and elected first Muslim mayor of Calcutta, in India.

In 1937, elections took place in  British India. A year before that he had converted the Nikhil Proja Samiti to K.P.P. Meanwhile, Muhammad A. Jinnah nominated him to the Muslim League Central Parliamentary Board .

 There are several stories about this election.
Nazimuddin was  afraid of Haque. He arranged Grand feasts in several places. A peasant came to that.

"In this election Abul K. F. H. launched famous slogan still popular:
"ঘাম যার দাম তাঁর লাঙ্গল যার জমি তাঁর"
(who gives (It is a famour quote) the sweat should get the value.
Who holds the plough should own the land)

 The Europeans the Independent Scheduled Castes and the Independent Caste Hindus lent support to the alliance. For this reason,  Abul Kashem Fazlul Hoaque  was appointed the Premier of Bengal.

His reign was unstable as if  it was marred. The Independent Scheduled Castes seceded. Following the betrayal by Indian National Congress, he also moved the Lahore resolution.

The Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithglow nominated him to the Defence Council in that time. The Quaid-i-Azam who headed the All-India Muslim League asked him to resign from that position. After that, he obeyed but, resigned from the League Working Committee. For this reason,  of Abul Kashem Fazlul Hoaque  reluctance to obey the League ministers resigned.

In 1945, he contested elections on two seats by own. On the other hand,  his party was trounced by the All India Muslim League. In 1947, he only  joined the League campaign to include Calcutta. The other prominent supporters included Husseyn S. S. and Sarat C. Bose. The opposition of the Congress, ensured a partition of the province. After that, he accused Jinnah of not working hard enough for the cause. He managed to lead a fragile short lived alliance with Right wing-Hindutwa leader S. Mukherjee.
He was an admirer of Netaji basu, but he was very angry on him as Netaji basu started hunger strike on demand of removing Hallwell Monument and many other, Huq needed stability to discuss the land reform. Later Abul Kashem regretted hearing News of death of Netaji Basu.