Muhammad Ali Bogra

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Muhammad Ali Bogra was the third Prime Minister of Pakistan and was known for initiating bilateral talks with India on the Kashmir issue

Oct 19, 1909

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Personal Details

  • Birthday: October 19, 1909
  • Died on: July 15, 1963
  • Nationality: Pakistani
  • Famous: Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Leaders, Political Leaders, Prime Ministers
  • Spouses: Aliya Saddy in 1955, Begum Hamida Mohammad Ali
  • Known as: Mohammed Ali
  • Universities:
    • University of Calcutta

Muhammad Ali Bogra born at

Bogra

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Birth Place

He married Hamida. Together they had two children one of which is Syed Hamde Ali.

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Personal Life

On April 2, 1955, he married Aliya Saadi who was his secretary.

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On 23 January 1963, this eminent politician died of cardiac arrest in Dacca, Pakistan (now Dhaka, Bangladesh)

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Born in Barisal of British India, October 19th 1909 to Nawabzada Altaf Ali, he was raised primarily by his paternal grandfather, Nawab Bahadur Sir Nawab Ali Choudhury. He grew up mainly on his grandfather’s estate in Borga.

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Childhood & Early Life

He started his education at ‘Hastings House’ in Calcutta. Then Mohammad went to ‘Calcutta Madrassah’ before attending ‘Presidency College’ of ‘Calcutta University’.

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He stayed in Borga and became the chairman of the Borga municipality. Later, he became the chairman of the District Board. Intrigued by politics since an early age he was an active member of the ‘Waqf Board’.

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Career

He began his political career in 1937 by being elected to the legislature of undivided Bengal in Calcutta from the MLA (Muslim League Assembly).

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In 1943-1946 Mohammad became included in Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy’s cabinet as the minister of health. While the minister, he established the ‘Dhaka Medical College’ and the ‘Lake Medical College Hospital’. During that time, he was also made the minister of local self-government as well as the minister of finance.

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Pakistan was born in 1947 and he was elected to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan.

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In May of 1948, he left for Burma on a diplomatic mission as assigned by Mohammed Ali Jinnah who was the then governor-general. He suffered a heart attack the same year.

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He is most famous for his “Bogra Formula”. According to this formula the parliament would consist of an Upper House contained 10 seats from each province, making 50 seats total. The Lower House would be determined by the population of each province. This would make it contain 300 seats, 165 from East Pakistan and 135 from West Pakistan.

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This formula also stated that if the President were from the East then the Prime Minister would have to be from the West, and vice-versa. Even though this formula was a diplomatic solution to a tense problem, the autocratic leaders of the country did not allow it to be implemented.

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