Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani
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The "red Maulana" founded the Awami Muslim League in 1949, later the Awami League, and then the leftist National Awami Party, organising peasants across East Bengal and Assam. His 1957 Kagmari conference speech warned West Pakistan that East Bengal might part ways, fourteen years before Bangladesh's independence.
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