Amjad Hossain (Kushtia politician)

Amjad Hossain was born in 1924 at Charsadirajpur under PS Kumarkhali District Kushtia, Later his father Sheikh Rafiq Uddin and mother Parijan Nessa permanently settled at Nurpur of Pabna town.^[1]

Amjad Hossain started his education from Madrasa. Later he admitted to Pabna Zilla School. He completed his secondary education from Rangpur Carmichael College. Later he graduated from Maulana Azad College, Kolkata.^[2]

Amjad Hossain came in contact with Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy when he was student. Shaheed Suhrawardy inspired him to get involved in politics that was how his political career began.^{[citation needed]} He was an organiser of Bengali language movement in 1952 and had a contribution ^[3] in Language Movement.

When Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy became the prime minister of Pakistan he appointed then young Amjad Hossain as his political secretary. For his capability in facing formidable challenges Amjad Hossain earned significant popularity within his party and among the general population.^{[citation needed]} He was elected as member^[4] of the National Assembly of Pakistan twice in the years of 1962 and 1970.^[5] In the 1970 election ^[6] he won the election against Maulana Abdus Sobhan.

Amjad Hossain was one of the pioneering architect of Pabna district Awami league. A close confidante of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,^{[citation needed]} Amjad Hossain shouldered the charges of president of greater Pabna district Awami League in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He coordinated the Awami League's election campaign for the 1970 Pakistani general election in Pabna, in which the League gained a historic parliamentary majority to form government to the elected National Assembly.

Amjad Hossain was a political organiser^[7] before Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. After the Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight in East Pakistan in March 1971, he, with other leaders started organizing people. Amjad Hossain, in compliance with directives of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in his speech on 7 March 1971, framed strategies to fight. He sent a special envoy to the Government of West Bengal seeking military logistics because it seemed the Pakistani political crisis could no longer be solved peacefully.^{[citation needed]}

People's leader Amjad Hossain died on 6 April 1971.^{[citation needed]}

Amjad Hossain High School in Pabna is named after him ^{[8][failed verification]}