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Moulvi Shamsuddin Ahmed, a distinguished political scientist, education enthusiast and an outstanding leader of the peasant-people movement, was born in 1889 in Sultanpur village of Kumarkhali thana of Kushtia district (at that time Nadia district). His father Mahatab Uddin Ahmed was a social reformer.
Moulvi Shamsuddin Ahmed, or Shamsuddin Ahmed, passed from Hooghly Madrasa and studied in Calcutta. After passing BA in 1914 and LLB in 1919, he started law practice, first in Krishnanagar and later at the Calcutta High Court. He joined the non-cooperation movement in 1921. In 1925 he was secretary of the Provincial Khilafat and Bengal Congress Committee, and a commissioner of the Calcutta Corporation. In 1929 he was general secretary of the Bengal Krishak-Praja Dal. In 1930, when the civil disobedience movement against the British government began, he was arrested and imprisoned.
In 1933 he was nominated a councillor of the Calcutta Corporation and chairman of its 'Basti and Road' committee. In 1937 he was elected a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly. In 1938 he was general secretary of the Krishak-Praja Party in the ministry of Fazlul Huq of undivided Bengal. In 1938 he was Minister of Industry, Commerce and Labour in the ministry of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. His role in the establishment of Kushtia College in 1946 is especially memorable.
For a long time he was the president of the governing committee of this college. After the establishment of Pakistan in 1947, he worked as a member of the East Bengal Legislative Assembly until the election of 1954. A short while before the death of the Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, he was nominated for the post of ambassador to Burma, but the succeeding prime minister Khawaja Nazimuddin cancelled that nomination. In 1962 he contested for a seat in the National Assembly and was defeated, and in 1963 he formed a new political party called the Pakistan Socialist Party. He was a lawyer of the Dhaka High Court until his death.
Moulvi Shamsuddin Ahmed's ideal in politics is worth remembering with respect.
Information and acknowledgement: History of Kushtia - Dr Muhammad Emdad Hasnayen/Saria Sultana
