Abul Mansur's 33rd death anniversary today

Today is the 33rd death anniversary of Abul Mansur Ahmad, a renowned litterateur, journalist and politician of the sub-continent, says a press release.
One of the greatest satirists of Bangla literature, Abul Mansur Ahmad was also a renowned politician, lawyer and a very powerful journalist. He worked for the Krishak, the Nabajug and was editor of the Ittehad published from Kolkata in 1946 in undivided Bengal. He was a pioneer in modern and progressive journalism.
A very successful politician, Abul Mansur Ahmad was the provincial education minister in the United Front Cabinet led by Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Huq and the central commerce and industries minister of the Awami League government of Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1957. He was known for his strong stand in matters of interest of East Bengal.
Abul Mansur Ahmad's publications include great satires like Aina, Asmani Purdah, Gulliverer Safar Nama and Food Conference. His works also include great 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 saw it).
Abul Mansur Ahmad always propagated secularism in a manner unparalleled in the forties, fifties and sixties. His contribution to the opposition movement in the early days of Pakistan was extremely significant. He was one of the early leaders of the Awami League.
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 famous Ekush Dafa (21 points programme) election manifesto of the Jukta Front (a grand coalition of three giants of our politics, Sher-e-Bangla Fazlul Huq, Moulana Bhashani and Shaheed Suhrawardy) in the 1954 election through which Muslim League was removed from power. The Ekush Dafa was the first comprehensive articulation of the political, economic and cultural demands of the Bangalees of the then eastern part of Pakistan.
For his political work, he suffered jail terms on several occasions during Gen Ayub Khan's Martial Law in the late fifties and early sixties.
Bangla Academy has recently published three volumes of Abul Mansur's collected works. Three more volumes are under print.