Abstract
Charismatic leaders are the gifts and mercy from God. They are torch bearers of knowledge and revolution. Every nation in one way or the other has been and is endowed with leaders and same is the case of Bangladesh nation which was fortunate enough to have a leader like Sheikh Mujibur Rehman who guided them in the times of freedom struggle, and thrusted them into the region which dawned tranquility of mind and unshackled boundaries. It is in fact an old saying that good leaders build good nations which is equally true with the Bangladesh nation for which sheikh Mujibur Rehman sacrificed every breath and blood of his life and mapped a new nation in the world. In this paper, the author tried to highlight the personal life of Sheik Mujib and the main focus of the paper is to emphasize the political life of the leader. The paper discusses the main achievements of the leader and particularly the independence of Bangladesh of which Mujib was the pivotal figure. Key words: Mujib, Bangladesh, leadership, freedom, struggle, democracy.
Highlights
Father of the Nation is an honorific bestowed on individuals who are considered the most important in the process of the establishment of a country or a nation
Though man is fallible and can commit mistakes as was the case with Sheikh Mujibur Rehman who in the final days of his political life did try to convert the parliamentary form of government into presidential one and banned all the political parties and made a grave mistake by sidelining the army which were the main force behind the Bangladesh freedom. This whole process of undemocratic methods provide a chance to his die hard opponents to assassinate him and paved the way towards the military rule in Bangladesh which lasted up to 1990
The fact is that Mujib provided wings to the wings less nation and freed them from the clutches of the western wing rule
Summary
Father of the Nation is an honorific bestowed on individuals who are considered the most important in the process of the establishment of a country or a nation. Journalist Cyril Dunn once said of him, “In the thousand year history of Bangladesh Sheikh Mujib is the only leader who has in terms of blood, race, language, culture and birth been a full blooded Bengali His physical stature was immense and his voice was redolent of thunder. Though he led from the front during the freedom struggle but he could not transform it into an inclusive freedom movement as there were several sections within the region who were disgruntled towards Mujib’s leadership and had raised a voice against his abilities It is generally believed about Sheikh Mujibur Rehman that he was a good freedom fighter but was not a good administrator which may be substantiated with this fact that after independence he failed to a greater extent to strengthen the democratic institutions building; he scrapped the democratic system, banned all the parties and instead allowed only one party to function- BAKSAL. This sort of undemocratic begging set the stage for confrontational politics between the two major parties and set the stage for the emergence of confrontational political culture
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