Martin Luther King

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a physically powerful worker for social rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the administrative committee of the Countrywide Association for the Advancement of Painted People, the most important organization of its kind in the nation. He was prepared, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the original enormous Negro diplomatic demonstration of up to date times in the Amalgamated States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Ultimate Court of the Amalgamated States had confirmed unlawful the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to individual abuse, but at the similar time he emerged as a Negro leader of the original rank.

In 1957 he was selected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization fashioned to provide new leadership for the now rapidly increasing social rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its prepared techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven – year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty – five hundred times, appearing wherever present was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as healthy as plentiful articles. In these years, he led a gigantic protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that fixed the attention of the complete world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspirational his ” Letter from a Birmingham Jail “, a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he designed the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he heading for the diplomatic march on Washington, D. C ., of 250, 000 people to whom he delivered his address, ” l Have a Dream “, he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and beaten at smallest amount four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the emblematic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty – five, Martin Luther King, Jr ., was the youngest man to have established the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $ 54, 123 to the furtherance of the social rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with outstanding garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.

Dr. A. Bayes Bhuyan
MBBS, FCPS (Gynae & Obs).
Cham: 60. Centle Road DRA,
8618574 (C), 8616380 (R)

Dr. Anwara Begum
MBBS, FCPS;
Professor of Gynae & Obs. (Retd)
Cham: (i) 57/1, Chamelibagh (3rd lane)
Shantinagar, 406455 (C&R)
(ii) Popular Diagnostic Centre, H-ll/A,
Rd-2, Dhanmondi, 9661491-3, 9669480-8

Dr. Afroz Monowara
MBBS, DGO, MCPS (Gynae & obs).

Cham: Al-Helal Specialized Hospital,
150, Rokea Sharani, Shenpara Parbata, Mirpur, Dhaka;
9008181, 9006820 (C), 8018000 (R)

Dr. Asia Akhter Khatun
MBBS, MCPS, FCPS (Gynae & Obs)
Cham: 9, Green Super Market
(2nd Floor), Green Road, 9116410 (C)

Dr. Atika Begum
FCPS:
Asso. Prof, of Gynae & Obs. Dept, SSMCH
Cham: Padma General Hospital Limited
290 Sonargaon Road, Dhaka.
9661528, 9662502 (C), 8617438, 9660319 (R)

Dr. Badrunnessa Ahmed
MBBS, FRCOG
Cham: 3/A Outer Circular Rd. Maghbazar
8315425 (R&C).

Dr. Begum Nasrin
MBBS, FCPS (Obs & Gyn).
Cham: North South Medical Centre,
161/1, Sonargaon Road, Hatirpool,
Dhaka; 8616057 (C)

Dr. Farhana Dewan
MBBS, FCPS (Gynae & Obs).
Cham: Central Hospital Dhanmodi,
Dhaka; 9660015-19 (C), 9115199 (R), 0171529022 (M)

Dr. Ferdous Mahal ‘Runy’
MBBS, MCPS, MS, FCPS
Cham: Comfort Tower,
167/B, Green Road, Dhanmondi,
8124990 (C), 8826838 (R)

Dr. Farhat Hossain
MBBS, FCPS (Gynae & Obs).
Cham: Doctors Point, 60 Central Road,
Dhanmodi, Dhaka; 8618574, 506657 (C),
8610288, 8811717 (R), 018230023 (M)

Dr. Firoza Begom
MBBS, FCPS, FICS

Cham: Comfort Nursing Home, Green
Road, 8124990 (C), 9661607 (R)

Dr. Hasina Afroz
MBBS, MCPS, MS
Cham: (i) Insaf Diagnostic & Consultation Centre,
129 New Eskaton Road, Dhaka;
9350884, 9351164 (C), 017835286 (M)
(ii) Islami Bank Hospital, 24/B, Outer
Circular Road, Motijheel,
9336421-3, 8317090 (C), 019-350978 (M)

Dr. Hamida Mydar
MBBS, MD, MS, PhD.
Cham: Malibagh Surgery,
92 DIT Road, Malibagh,
8321206 (C), 8314478 (R)

Hosne Ara Begom
MBBS, FCPS.
Cham: New Nova Diagnostic Centre,
25/2, North-South Road, Dhaka;
9667578 (C)

Iffat Ara
MBBS, FCPS, MM Ed. (UK)
Cham: Al-Rajhi Hospital Ltd, 12,
Farmgate, Dhaka; 8119229, 9117775, 8121172(C)

Dr. Khaleda Akhter
MBBS, MCPS, FCPS (Gynae & Obs).
Cham: (i) Mirpur General Hospital, H-
35, Rd-1, Section-10, Mirpur, 8015444, 9007873 (C)
(ii) Crescent Gastroliver & General Hospital Ltd.
Rd- 8/A, H-60, Dhanmondi R/A,
9116851 (C), 9126504 (R), 019352537 (M)

Dr. Kohinoor Khan
MBBS, DGO, MCPS, FRSH (Lon)
Cham: (i) 32, Green Super Market
(2nd Floor), Green Road, 8118333 (C)
(ii) Al-Adnan Clinic, 187, Green Road,

Dr. Kohinoor Begum
MBBS, FCPS (Gynae & Obs).
Cham: Nirupam Hospital, H-69,

Rd-11/A, DRA, 8114429, 9131037 (C), 8113321 (R),

Dr. Latifa Shamsuddin
MBBS, FCPS (Gynae & Obs).
Cham: Barnali Nursing Home, Plot-3,
Block-G, Section-1, Main Road, Mirpur,
Dhaka; 8011178, 8017873 (C), 9001624 (R)

Dr. Laila Anjuman banu (Meghla)
MBBS, FCPS (Gynae & Obs).
Cham: General Hospital,
103 Elephant Road, Dhaka; 8611932, 8628890 (C)

Dr. (Major) Liza Chowdhury
MBBS, MCPS, DGO, FCPS (Gynae & Obs).
Cham: Ibn Sina Consultation Centre,
Shankar, H-69, Satmasjid Road, Dhanmondi
812705191(0, 9870011 (O)

Dr. Mahfuz Ara Begum
MBBS, DGO, FCPS, FCPS, MS (Gynae & Obs)
Cham: Medicom Specialist Doctors
Chamber, Mirpur 11 No. Bus Stand,
8022642, 9004968, Ext-136 (C),
9006839 (R), 0171-645307 (M)

Dr. Mahmuda Khatun
MBBS, FCPS.
Cham: Memory Medical Centre,
22, New Eskaton, 83144317, 8319323 (C)

Dr. Mamataj Begom
MBBS, MCPS, DGO, FRSH (Lon)
Cham: Crescent Hospital,
22/2 babar Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka;
9117524 (C), 8118402 (R)

Dr. Monowara Begum
MBBS, FCPS, MS (Gynae & Obs)
Cham: Popular Diagnostic Center Ltd.
2, English Road, 7115071-2 (C), 9662521 (R), 019-344167 (M)

Dr. Nahid Mirza Siraj
MBBS, MRCOG (UK)
Cham: Comfort Tower, 167/B, Green
Road, Dhanmondi, 8124990 (C), 8826838 (R)

Dr. Nargis Rafiqa Akhter
MBBS, FCPS (Gynae & Obs).
Cham: Al-Manar Hospital (Pvt) Ltd.
5/4, Block-F, Lalmatia, 9121387, 9121588 (C),
9122191 (R), 018-219253 (M)

Dr. Nahreen Akhter
MBBS, DGO, FCPS (Gynae & Obs).
Cham: General Medical Hospital,
103, Elephant Road, 8611932, 8628890 (C),
8624592 (R), 0171-544687 (M)

Dr. Naseem Rahman
MBBS FAGGH, PhD, CPS (Germany).
Cham: Omar-Sultan Medical Services,
H-33, Rd-8, Dhanmondi, Dhaka;
9123921-3(C),9111311 (R), 0171544704 (M)

Dr. Nazneen Kabir
MBBS, FCPS, DAGO (Lond).
Cham: The Barakah General Hospital,
937, Outer Circular Road, Rajarbag, Dhaka,
9337534, 9346265 (C)

Dr. Nur Sayeda
MBBS, FCPS (OBGYN).
Cham: (i) Mediprime Orthopaedic &
General Hospital, 1/9, College Gate,
Mohammadpur, 8125609-Ext-104 (C),
9119343 (R), 019-386766 (M)
(ii) Crescent Gastroliver & General
Hospital Ltd, H-60, Rd-8/A, DRA,
Dhaka; 9116851 (C)

Dr. Nurun Nahar Khanam
MBBS, DGO, FCPS, MS (Gynae & Obs), FGES (India)
Cham: Uttara Central Hospital,
H-l, Rd-7, Sector-1. Uttara,
8911551, 8918778 (C), 8918299 (R)

Dr. Nusrat Zaman
MBBS, FCPS (Gynae & Obs).
Cham: New Al-Rajhi Hospital,
32 Green Rd, 8628820 (C), 8619402 (R)

Dr. Parvin Rahman
MD (USSR), MS, PhD (Gynae & Obs, USSR)
Cham: The Medicomplex,
98, Senpara Parbata, Rokeya Sarani. Mirpur,
8018468 (C), 8015638 (R)

Dr. Perveen Sultana
MBBS, DGO.
Cham: 8, Green Super Market
(1st Floor), Green Road,
9120128 (R) 019344745 (M)

Dr. Rahila Khan
MBBS, MRCOG (Lond), MD (USA).
Cham: Doctors Diagnostic Centre Ltd,
Rd-7, Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka;
9123060, 8115300 (O)
Women & Children’s Hospital,
H-29, Rd-10/A, DRA, Dhaka;
9115458, 9121077 (C)

Dr. Rahima Begum
MBBS, FCPS (Gynae), FICS.
Cham: Popular Diagnostic Centre, H-
11/A, Rd-2, Dhanmondi, 9661491-3, 9669480-8

Dr. Roksana Ivy
MBBS, MS, FCPS (Gynae)
Cham: Al-Markajul Islami Hospital
H-29, Rd-3, Shayamoli,
9129426, 9129217 (C). 8122040 (R)

Dr. Salma Rouf
MBBS, FCPS (Gynae), MS (UK) .
Cham: Al-Sami Hospital (Pvt) Ltd.
Sha-23/Ka, Adarshanagar, Middle Badda,
8827239 (C), 0171-530906 (M)

Dr. Sabera Khatun
MBBS, FCPS (Gynae).
Cham: (i) Dhanmondi Clinic Pvt. Ltd,
H-2, Rd-8, DRA, Dhaka;
8616014, 8617502 (C), 9132936 (R), 018216254 (M)
(ii) Crescent Gastroliver & General
Hospital Ltd, H-60, Rd-8/A, DRA,

Dhaka; 9116851 (C).

Dr. Sameena Chowdhury
MBBS, MCPS, FCPS, FICS, DRH(UK)
Cham: Central Hospital H-2, Rd-5,
Green Road, Dhonmondi, Dhaka ;
9660015-19 (C), 9338338 (R)

Dr. Saria Tasnim
MBBS, FCPS (OBGYN). Ms. M. Ed (UK).
Cham: I) Pan Pacific Hospital, 24, Outer
Circular Road, Shajahanpur, Dhaka;
9349794, 9351476 (C).
II) 14/30A, Abhoy Das Lane, Tikatooly,
Dhaka;7120733, 9556922 (C&R)

Dr. Sayeba Akther
MBBS, FCPS (Gyne)
Cham: (i) Dhaka Lab, 1/20, Humayun
Road, Mohammadpur, 8123832 (C), 9118520 (R),
(ii) Udayan Poly Clinic, 16-17/1 (Old 280),
New Eskaton Road, Dhaka, 9351100-1, 9357095-6 (C)

Dr. Shaila S. Banu
MBBS, MRCOG (Lon)
Cham: Doctor’s Care, H-2/A, Rd-8,
Dhanmondi, Dhaka; 8617322, 8631058
(C), 8110127 (R), 0171-335656 (M)

Dr. Shahin Ara Anwari
MBBS, FCPS, MS (Gyne & Obs)
Cham: Islami Bank Central Hospital,
Kakrail. 30, VIP Road, Dhaka, 9338810,
8316166, 9355801-2. 9360331-2 (C), 8627034 (R)

Dr. Sharmin Rahman
MBBS, FCPS, FRSH (Lon)
Cham: Al-Sheefa Diagnostic & Medical
Center, 351, East Rampura, DITRoad, 8319882 (C)

Dr. Sharifun Nessa
MBBS, MCPS, DGO.
Cham: Royal Hospital, 31, New Eskaton
Road, Dhaka; 8313096, 9346455 (C), 8829332 (R)

Dr. Shayela Shamim
MBBS, FCPS (OBGYN).
Cham: I) Pan Pacific Hospital,
24, Outer Circular Road, Shajahanpur, Dhaka;
9349794, 9351476 (C).
II) 400/1, North Shahjahanpur, Dhaka;
8318116 (C&R)

Dr. Shiulee Chowdhury
MBBS, FCPS (OBGYN).
Cham: General Medical Hospital,
103, Elephant Road, Dhaka,
8628890, 8611932 (C), 9660025 (R)

Dr. Sk. Zinnat Ara Nasreen
MBBS, FCPS, MRCOG (Lon)
Cham: Medinova, H-71/A, Rd-5/A, DRA,
Dhaka; 8620353-7, 8624907-10 (C), 8611638 (R)

Dr. Sofia Nilufar
MBBS, FCPS, MRCOG (Lon)
Cham: Conscious Health Services Ltd.
H-25/A, Rd-6, DRA, 9665544 (C)

Dr. Syed Ershad Ali
FRCOG, FCPS
Cham: Ibn Sina Consultation Center,
H-58, Rd-2/A, DRA, 8618007, 8618262 (C), 9130441, 9130442 (R)

Dr. Suraiya Begum
MBBS, FCPS.
Cham: Ibn Sina D.Lab & Consultation Centre,
H- 47, Rd-9/A, DRA, 9126625-6, 9128835 (C), 8125303 (R)

Dr. S.R Begom
MBBS, FCPS (OBGYN), FICS.
Cham: Consultation Centre
(An Enterprise of Dhaka Renal Centre),
H-27, Rd-7, DRA, 9113936, 8111855,
8111825, 9662805 (C), 9330225, 9335658 (R)

Dr. Sk. Zinnat Ara Nasreen
MBBS,FCPS, MRCOG
Cham: Medinova H-71, Rd-5/A, DRA, Dhaka;
8620353-7, 8624907-10 (C), 9671910 (R)

Dr. T.A Chowdhury
MBBS, FRCS, FRCP, FRCOG
Cham: Farida Clinic,
165/A Shantinagar, 8321960 (C), 8321819 (R)

Dr. Zeba Ahmed
MBBS, MCPS (Gynae & Obs), DGO (Dublin).
Cham: Consultation Centre
(An Enterprise of Dhaka Renal Centre),
H-27, Rd-7, DRA, 8610928, 8621841
Ext-227 (C), 019380128 (M)

Chairperson of BNP

Khaleda Zia (born 15 August 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1991 to 1996, the first woman in the country’s history to hold that position, and then again from 2001 to 2006. She is the widow of assassinated President of Bangladesh Ziaur Rahman, and leads his old party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. After 35 years of independence of Bangladesh she has ruled the country for about 10 years (longest period). She has been elected to five separate parliamentary constituencies in the general elections of 1991, 1996, and 2001, a feat unachieved by any other politician in Bangladeshi history. In 2006, Forbes ranked Khaleda Zia #33 in its list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in the world.

Parliament building of Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a parliamentary democracy with Islam as the state religion. Direct elections involving all citizens over the age 18 are held every five years for the unicameral parliament known as Jatia Sangsad.The parliament building is known as the Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban designed by architect Louis Kahn and currently has 345 members including 45 reserved seats for women, elected from single-member constituencies. The Prime Minister, as the head of government, forms the cabinet and runs the day-to-day affairs of state. While the Prime Minister is formally appointed by the President, he or she must be an MP who commands the confidence of the majority of parliament. The President is the head of state, a largely ceremonial post elected by the parliament.

Present Prime Minister of Bangladesh

Sheikh Hasina was born on 28th September, 1947 in Tungipara, a remote village under Gopalganj district, which is also the birthplace of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. She is the eldest daughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Her mother Begum Fazilatunnesa was widely respected as a tender-hearted lady and for her love for the poor and needy people.

In 1968, Sheikh Hasina married an eminent scientist of Bangladesh, Dr. M.A. Wazed Miah. They are now the parents of a son and a daughter. After her marriage, Sheikh Hasina continued her studies and graduated from the University of Dhaka in 1973. Scion of a political family, she was actively involved in students politics in her college and university life. She gathered political experience in her role as the go-between in maintaining contact between her father and the political and student leaders during Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s repeated imprisonment by the Pakistani rulers in the 1960s. Always popular among students, Sheikh Hasina, as president of Govt. Intermediate Girls College unit of the Chhatra League, i.e., the students wing of the Awami League, was also elected Chief of the Student Union in 1966. She was an active member of the Students League of Dhaka University and Secretary of the Student League unit of Rokeya Hall. She actively participated in the mass movement of 1969, and at the time of the War of Liberation in 1971, she was imprisoned by the Pakistan occupation army along with other members of her family.

On the fateful night of August 15, 1975 some power hungry and bloodthirsty army officers assassinated the Father of the Nation who was also the elected Head of State, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his wife, three sons and all the residents of his house. Sheikh Hasina and her only sister Sheikh Rehana survived the carnage as they were then visiting West Germany.

Sheikh Hasina was forced to live in exile because of the restrictions put on her by General Ziaur Rahman, the President of Bangladesh at the time. However, in 1981, she was elected President of the largest political party of Bangladesh, and no force could prevent her return to Bangladesh on 17 May 1981. On her return, she was heartily welcomed by millions of people who were eagerly waiting for the return of the daughter of democracy, Sheikh Hasina.

Sheikh Hasina is the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh to have succeeded in leading the ordinary masses to the threshold of political power. Governments have come and gone since the cowardly assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, but the toiling masses who form the bulk of the population of Bangladesh were always kept at bay in exercise of the power of the state. They were used as vassals by successive military dictators, but were never taken into confidence. They were used as showpieces to the donors in the dictators’ bid to get foreign aid and assistance. When aid came, the dictators and their hand-picked few plundered most of it. Poverty continued in its endemic form.

Even the elected government of the BNP led by the then Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia followed the same legacy of defiance and stubbornness that her husband General Ziaur Rahman and his most trusted Second-in-Command General Ershad had left in the body politic of Bangladesh. They exercised power first, to perpetuate their lust for authority and personal gains, and secondly, to keep the people of the country as far away as possible from the citadel of power.

The Elections on June 12, 1996 were an outcome of the vigorous and uncompromising political movement of the people led by Sheikh Hasina and her party which gave the people the chance to choose from among those who represent the power of the people, and not those who epitomise the military oligarchy.

On June 13, 1996 the Awami League won the elections. Sheikh Hasina was sworn in as the Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the nation her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had founded 25 years ago.

Time and again Sheikh Hasina has spoken candidly about her foremost political objective. She said, “We shall continue our struggle and our movement until such time as the economic emancipation of the poor is attained. The exploitation of the poor, who are in a vast majority in our society, by the rich, who are in a minority, must come to an end.”

After securing for the people their right to vote freely and fairly through the establishment of a non-party caretaker government, Sheikh Hasina has committed herself to secure their right to food and freedom from hunger and is on record to have done so.

After assuming the responsibilities of the office of the Prime Minister on 23 June 1996, Sheikh Hasina has took revolutionary steps and initiated widespread programmes in the economic, social and political fields of the country for ensuring total and unhindered development of Bangladesh. She has in the last five years changed the lot of the poor living in the rural areas to a very large extent by undertaking programmes for alleviation of poverty, enhancement of per capita income, creation of job opportunities and increase in food production. She has introduced stipend for the old and for the widows. As Prime Minister, she personally ran a housing and income generation programme for the poorest of the poor in the rural areas called ‘Asrayan’. She undertook other housing, programmes as well and programmes like ‘A Home A Farm’ to encourage household forming and ‘Returning Home’ to reverse the trend of migration from the rural to the urban areas.

Sheikh Hasina has dedicated her life for the welfare of the people and the nation. She has personally nothing to gain or lose from political activities. Her politics is for the people. Sheikh Hasina had to cover a long way in her struggle to establish democracy in Bangladesh with the sole objective of giving rise to a free and just society. In this arduous journey, the people were the source of her strength. Today, Sheikh Hasina’s leadership is a main fountainhead for uniting the people and nation.

Sheikh Hasina says, ‘If, like my father, I have to sacrifice myself, I am ready for that.’ She is an undaunted soldier of democracy. Sheikh Hasina has further upheld and taken forward the light her father had lit. At the same time, she continues to discharge the heavy responsibilities that she has been entrusted with.

Sheikh Hasina earned the admiration of the entire nation when she converted her only home “Bangabandhu Bhaban” into “Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Museum”. This house is a silent witness to many historical events, including the nation’s War of Liberation and the assassination of its founding father. Sheikh Hasina put it in the charge of a Board of Trustees with herself as its Chairperson. Sheikh Hasina has consistently lent financial assistance to the families of the martyrs of the liberation war as well as poor and needy students.

Sheikh Hasina is an avid reader of books and journals on international politics, literature and social welfare. She is the author of several books e.g., ‘The Plight of The Street Children’, ‘The Origin of Autocracy’, the ‘Elimination of Poverty’, ‘Some Thoughts’, ‘People and democracy’ and ‘Development for the Masses’. She has also written numerous articles on different social, economic and political issues of the country. She is a prominent member of the cultural organization called Culture and Literature Sangha and a founder member of a leading sports club of the country, the Abahani Krira Chakra. Sheikh Hasina is a pious lady and has performed Hajj several times.

Endless patience, perseverance and tenacity combined with good judgement and regard for humanity have converged into the personality of Sheikh Hasina which have given her the courage to face and the ability to lead. The daughter of democracy represents the future of Bangladesh.