Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish

Mawlana Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish
3rd President of Awami League
In office 10 October 1957 – 25 January 1966
General Secretary	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Preceded by	Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Succeeded by	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh
In office 1971–1973
Constituency	NE-25 (Pabna-II)
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office 1955–1958
Member of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
In office 10 August 1947 – 24 October 1954
Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
In office 1937–1945
Personal details
Born	Khandakar Sayed Abdur Rashid (1900-11-27)27 November 1900 Salanga, Bengal, British India
Died	20 August 1986(1986-08-20) (aged 85) Dhaka, Bangladesh
Political party	All-India Muslim League (1936–1947) Muslim League (1947–1952) Awami League (1952–1975) Gano Azadi League (1976–1986)
Personal life
Education	Darul Uloom Deoband Mazahir Uloom
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Lineage	Ali al-Sajjad
Jurisprudence	Hanafi
Movement	Deobandi

Khandakar Abdur Rashid (Bengali: খন্দকার আব্দুর রশীদ), better known as Abdur Rashid Tarkabagish (Bengali: আব্দুর রশীদ তর্কবাগীশ; 27 November 1900 – 20 August 1986) was a Bangladeshi politician and Islamic scholar. His career spans from the anti-colonial independence movement to the establishment of both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Tarkabagish was the second president of the All Pakistan Awami Muslim League, and served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and later the Parliament of Bangladesh. Despite being a member of the treasury bench, he opposed what he considered to be the repressive mentality of the Nurul Amin government towards the Bengali Language Movement.^[1]