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Janab Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah was born on 26 January 1945 in Panti of Kushtia district. Janab M A Awal, son of a respectable Muslim family, is the son of the late Alhajj Abdul Jabbar. He is renowned as a social worker and education enthusiast. Their ancestral home is in Krishnapur village of Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia district.
Brilliant and meritorious Janab Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah passed the matriculation examination in the first division from Panti High School in 1961. In 1963 he passed the higher secondary examination in the humanities branch, first division, from Kushtia College, securing the 10th position in the merit list. In 1966 he passed the BA with honours in economics and in 1967 the masters examination. In 1986 he passed the LLB examination. He passed all three of the above examinations from Dhaka University, obtaining second class. In his student life Janab Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah first became involved in the progressive student movement and joined the then East Pakistan Students Union. Later he joined the Chhatra League. At different times he held important responsibilities at various levels of both student organizations.
During his student days he played an active and important role in the 1962 education movement, the 1966 Six Point and Eleven Point movements and various other democratic and progressive movements. After completing his student life he joined the Awami League. Janab Mohammad Abdul Awal Miah made outstanding contributions to our independence movement during the Pakistan era, the anti-Ayub student movement of 1969, the mass uprising and the Liberation War of Bangladesh.
Through eight years of continuous struggle against Ershad, he also played a pioneering role, along with discharging his responsibilities, in all the anti-autocracy mass uprisings of 1990. After the fall of the autocracy, in the general election held on 27 February 1991 under a non-party neutral caretaker government, he contested as a candidate nominated by the Bangladesh Awami League and was elected a member of parliament from the Kushtia-4 constituency.
Alongside politics, Janab Abdul Awal Miah is specially involved with various programmes of social service, cultural activities and public welfare. Janab Abdul Awal Miah, a director of the Dhanmondi (Dhaka) branch of the Rotary Club, has held and still holds important positions in many other organizations and associations. He entered into marriage in 1962. With his wife Sahana Awal, two sons and two daughters, he has built a happy home. His eldest son Abdus Salam completed his education in Sweden. His second son Abu Hasan holds a masters in finance from Dhaka University; his eldest daughter Tahmina is married and holds a masters from Dhaka University; and his youngest daughter holds a masters from Badrunnesa College in Dhaka.
