Gamiruddin Pradhan

After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, he became the president of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML).^[3] After serving as a member of the Dinajpur District Board until 1958, he was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly in 1962.^[2] In 1968, he became the Speaker of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly and held the position until 1969.^[4][5] Following the 1969 East Pakistan mass uprising, he was appointed president of the East Pakistan branch of the Convention Muslim League (PMLC).^[6] In the 1970 Pakistani general election, he contested from the NE-13 Dinajpur-1 constituency as a PMLC candidate but lost, receiving 4,399 votes.^[7] In January 1971, he resigned from the presidency of the provincial PMLC.^[8] After the independence of Bangladesh, he joined the Bangladesh Muslim League (BML). However, in 1978, ahead of the second presidential election, when party president Khan A Sabur expelled Shah Azizur Rahman from the BML for supporting Nationalist Front of President Ziaur Rahman, Pradhan also left the party.^[9] Later, he served as the General Secretary of the faction of the BML led by Badruddin Ahmed Siddiky.^[4]

On 15 June 1981, Gamiruddin Pradhan passed away at PG Hospital in Dacca, Bangladesh (present-day Bangladesh Medical University, Dhaka) after suffering from jaundice. He was later buried at Banani graveyard in Dacca.^[4] His son Shafiul Alam Pradhan, passed away in 2017, was a politician who participated in the Bangladesh Liberation War and was the founding president of the Jatiya Ganotantrik Party (JaGPa).^[3] Pradhan's granddaughter Tasmia Pradhan, is the incumbent and third president of the JaGPa and a barrister, while his grandson Al Rashed Pradhan is the party's current vice-president and a professional engineer.^[10]