Early Political Career
Azam entered politics as a student leader at Dhaka University, and in 1947 became the Secretary General of the Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU). After the death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in 1948 new governor-general of Pakistan Khawaja Nazimuddin decided to strictly follow the path its founder had set for it. Thus he again declared that Urdu would be the only state language of Pakistan which led to unrest and subsequent movement in Bangladesh characterized as Bengali Language Movement. In the same year the state language committee of action decided to present the case for Bengali as an official language in East Pakistan alongside Urdu before the prime minister and authorized Azam to do the job. Because at that time he happened to be the general secretary of DUCSU and the leaders of the committee felt that the president of the union, Aurobindo Basu, should not be asked to face the prime minister as he was part of the Hindu religious community that was already under suspicion of the Pakistani government. Between 1950 and 1955, Azam was teaching at the Government Carmichael College in Rangpur. He was arrested in 1952 for his association with the language movement and dismissed from his teaching position at the college.
Between 1952 and 1954, Azam was active in the Tabligh Jamaat in Rangpur district, where he acted as the leader (ameer) of the organisation.
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