Background
Ahmed Hossain was born in Jalaltair village, Mahimaganj, Rangpur district on 7 March 1896.
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Ahmed Hossain was born in Jalaltair village, Mahimaganj, Rangpur district on 7 March 1896.
Represented his Shagata and Fulchari constituency, of Gaibandha District as Modern Language Association and Member of Parliament from 1937 to 1958. Hossain passed his Matriculation examination from Sonatola High School and obtained a Law Degree from the Aligarh Muslim University. Hossain joined the All India Congress Party and was fully committed to Mahatma Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement (1920), canvassing support for the Congress Agenda all over north Bengal, particularly in the Rangpur district.
He was given the ministerial post for the Agriculture, Forest and Fisheries department under the Chief Minister-ship of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.
In 1947 Bengal was partitioned in the partition of Bengal (1947) along religious lines. In 1954, Hossain was elected to the East Pakistan national assembly as a United Front Member.
In 1956 he joined the cabinet of Abu Hossain Sarkar as Agriculture minister. He established an Alia Madrasa at Mahimaganj in 1939, which was particularly significant as at the time there were only three other Alia madras in the whole of undivided Bengal.
A newly built student hall, the "Ahmed Hossain Student Hall" has been dedicated in his honour.
Hossain was also responsible for building a high school and a Mosque in Mahimaganj in 1939 and 1945 respectively. In 1950 Ahmed Hossain introduced Laws against catching fish eggs, small and spawning fish to provide for the conservation and development of propagation of fish stock. Ahmed Hossain continued to represent his constituency as an Member of Parliament until Ayub Khan declared Martial Law in Pakistan in 1958.
Ahmed Hossain died at the age of 65 on Friday 19 May 1961.