Gaziul Haque

Who was Gaziul Haque?

Gaziul Haque is a language activist and a renowned student leader during the Bengali Language Movement. He chaired the meeting at the Dhaka University premises on February 21, 1952 from which the decision to violate Section 144 was made. Later that day police fired into the students who demanded equal status of Bengali along with Urdu and eventually they prevailed.

Gaziul Haque was born in Nishchintopur village of Chagalnaiyyan Thana in Feni district on February 13, 1929. He passed matriculation from Bogra Zilla School in 1946. Next year on September he joined the Democracy Summit in Dhaka. He was the chairman of the procession of a news published in the English daily Morning News. On March 11, 1948, he took part in the rally demanding the status of Bangla which was directed by Muhammad Shahidullah. At the end of July in 1951, he joined a meeting along with other student leaders of that time to influence the dimming Language Movement. At the end of the meeting a leaflet was supplied by Abdul Matin.Earlier on 11th March,1951 a meeting was organized by the then East Pakistan Chatra League at Dhaka University campus. Mr. Khaleque Nawaz Khan, President of Chatra League presided over that meeting.In that meeting Mr. Abdul Matin was selected as convenor of Dhaka University language movement committee.