Abul Mansur Ahmad's 113th anniversary of birth today

Today, Saturday, September 3, is the 113th birth anniversary of Abul Mansur Ahmad, a renowned litterateur, journalist, and statesman of the sub-continent, says a press release.
Doa mahfil will be held in Dhaka and Mymensingh on the occasion.
One of the greatest satirists of Bengali literature, Abul Mansur Ahmad was also a renowned politician, lawyer, and a leading journalist. He was the Editor of the Daily Krishak, Nabajug, and Ittehad in undivided Bengal and a pioneer in progressive journalism.
A successful politician, Abul Mansur Ahmad was the provincial education minister in the United Front cabinet under Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Huq and the central commerce and industries minister in the Awami League government of Prime Minister Hossain Shaheed Suhrawardy. He was known for his strong stand on matters of interest to East Bengal.
Abul Mansur Ahmad's publications include great satires like Aina, Asmani Purdah, Gulliverer Safar Nama, and Food Conference. His works also include important writings on social and political history of Bengal. He has two autobiographical writings -- Atma Katha (about myself) and Amar Dekha Rajnitir Panchash Bachar (50 years of politics as I have seen it).
Abul Mansur Ahmad always propagated secularism in a manner unparalleled in the forties, fifties, and sixties. His contribution to opposition movement in the early days of Pakistan was extremely significant.
He wrote about the language issue from the early forties and contributed to the Language Movement as editor of the Ittehad. He was the author of the election manifesto of Jukta Front (a grand coalition of the three giants of our politics -- Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Huq, Moulana Bhashani, and Shaheed Suhrawardy) in the 1954 election, in which the Muslim League was ousted from power. The 21-point programme (Ekush Dafa) was the first comprehensive articulation of the political, economic, and cultural demands of the Bengalis of the then eastern part of Pakistan.
Abul Mansur Ahmad was one of the greatest political personalities of Bangladesh, who combined rare talents in three distinct fields -- politics, journalism, and literary writing.