Abul Qasem Fazlul Haq - Paragraph

Abul Qasem Fazlul Haq - Paragraph

Abul Qasem Fazlul Haq was born in 1872 at Saturia in Barisal. There he received his primary education in a village Maktab. He entered the Barisal Zilla School. He passed the Entrance Examination standing first in the Dhaka Division. After that he went to Calcutta for higher education. At the age of twenty one he passed the B.Sc. Examination obtaining Honours in Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics from the Presidency College, Calcutta. He took his M.Sc. degree in Mathematics in 1895. The next year he was appointed an examiner of M.A. in Mathematics in Calcutta University. In 1897 he passed B.L. Examination with distinction and enrolled himself in the Calcutta High Court as Assistant to Sir Asutosh Mukherjee. He worked with Nawab Sir Salimullah Bahadur and played an important role in founding the All India Muslim League in 1906. In the same year he gave up his legal profession and became a Deputy Magistrate. He acted for a short time, resigned and he joined the Calcutta High Court again in 1912. In 1913 he became an elected M.L.C. for the first time. Three years after he attended the special joint session of the congress and the Muslim League in Lucknow and played an important role. In 1918 he became the General Secretary of the Indian National Congress and the President of the All Indian Muslim League.