Kazi Golam Mahbub

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Kazi Golam Mahbub (23 December 1927 – 19 March 2006) was a Bangladeshi activist and politician who played a key role in the Language Movement in East Pakistan. He was born in Kasba village, Backergunge District (now Barisal). His father, Kazi Abdul Majed, was an activist in the 1921 movement for farmers’ rights.

Mahbub finished school in Barisal, studied at Calcutta Islamia College, and moved to Dhaka in 1947. In 1948, he earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Dhaka and founded the East Pakistan Muslim Chhatra League. In January 1952, he became convener of the All Party State Language Action Committee.

He served on the Awami League’s central committee for the provincial unit from 1949 to 1968 and was general secretary of the greater Barisal District unit in 1953. He joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party in 1978 and served as its vice chairman. Mahbub was the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association in 1993–94. He died in Dhaka on 19 March 2006 at the age of 78. In December 2006, Dhaka’s mayor renamed old Road No 10 in Dhanmondi after him.