In the following video an Indian mulla is mentioning the name of Tiger Siddiqui.Could any one add to my knowledge.who was this guy??
Abdul Kader Siddique(Dhobi ka kutta ghar ka na ghat ka)
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Abdul Kader Siddique is a Bangladeshi politician. He is popularly known under the title of
Bangabir. He served as a Mukti Bahini member and organizer of the
Bangladesh Liberation War. He fought with an estimated 17,000-strong guerrilla force in the Tangail region against the
Pakistan Army.
[2] The army was called
Kaderia Bahini (Kader's Army). At the end of the war, on 16 December 1971, Siddique's forces entered
Dhaka along with the Indian forces, signaling the end of the war.
[3] He was awarded
Bir Uttom by the
Government of Bangladesh. Since 1999, he has been serving as the leader of his own-formed party
Krishak Sramik Janata League.
[4]
Career[edit]
During the
Bangladesh Liberation war, he formed
Kader Bahini to fight against the Pakistan military. The Kader Bahini had 17 thousand personnel. He was loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
[5] He and his unit fought mostly in Tangail District.
[6]
After the Independence of Bangladesh, Siddique went back to his home town of
Tangail where he enjoyed considerable patronage from the Awami League, the party of Prime Minister
Mujibur Rahman.
[7]
After the assassination of Mujibur Rahman in 1975, Siddiqui and his followers organised attacks on the authorities of
Khondakar Mushtaque's government. Elements loyal to Siddiqui operated from bases in
Assam province in India and were actively supported by India's
Border Security Force.
[7] In the insurgency against the military government of Bangladesh 104 rebels were killed and more than 500 were injured. The insurgency lasted more than two years.
[8] He was tried by a military court on 24 July 1978 and sentenced to 7 years in jail. He was sentenced to life imprisoned on revolt and murder charges. He was accused of killing a major and a number of soldiers of
Bangladesh Army after the
Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman following the
15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état.
[9] On 16 December 1990, he returned to Bangladesh from self imposed exile in India. He was arrested in Bangladesh on 17 January 1991.
[10]
Siddique was elected member of the parliament of Bangladesh from different constituencies of Tangail.
In 1996, Siddique was elected to Parliament as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate from Tangail-8.
[11] In 1999, Siddique was expelled from Awami League. He then resigned from the parliament and formed his own party
Krishak Sramik Janata League.
[4] This triggered a by-election, which he lost to the Bangladesh Awami League candidate,
Shawakat Momen Shahjahan. Siddique was elected to parliament from Tangail 8 in 2001 Bangladesh General Election as a candidate of Krishak Sramik Janata League.
[11] On 17 October 2006 his rally was attacked by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists leaving 11 injured in
Jamalpur District.
[12]
A court in Dhaka issued an arrest warrant for Siddique on 11 November 2014 over a defamation case for calling Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir Alamgir, Minister of Home Affairs, a Razzakar.
[13][14]
In 2017,
Bangladesh High Court disqualified Siddique from contesting a by-election from
Tangail-4 because he had defaulted on a loan. He tried to contest the
2018 Bangladesh General Election from Tangail-4 and
Tangail-8 but his candidacy was rejected by
Bangladesh Election Commission.
[15] He, along with his party, joined the Jatiya Oikyafront to contest the election against the Bangladesh Awami League alliance.
[16][17] His daughter, Kuri Siddique, also applied for nomination from Tangail-8 in case his candidacy was rejected.
[18] The Election Commission rejected the appeal filed by Siddique, challenging the cancellation of his nomination on 8 December 2018.
[19]
Controversy[edit]
According to a report in
The Times, Siddique and his guerrillas beat up and subsequently bayoneted and shot to death a group of prisoners (who they claimed were members of the
Razakars) after a rally held near Dhaka Stadium on 19 December 1971.
[20] Siddique personally bayoneted three prisoners to death and the entire incident was filmed by foreign film crews whom Siddique invited to witness the spectacle.
[7] Siddique was subsequently arrested by the Indian Army.
[2][21] Siddique discussed his involvement in the murders in an interview with
Yasmin Saikia, the author of
Women, War and Making Bangladesh: Remembering 1971. After describing an event in which Siddiqui shot a Mukti Bahini soldier for stealing a shawl from a civilian, Saikia states, referring to the Dhaka stadium incident, that 'at the time he did not think of his act as a crime against humanity, being swayed by the Bengali public sentiment for revenge. Today he knows that both...were violent acts, and he is pained by his past'.
[22]
Personal life[edit]
Siddique is married to Nasrin Siddique.
[23] His elder brother
Abdul Latif Siddiqui is also an Awami League politician who served as the member of parliament and the minister of
Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology.
[1] He, too, was expelled from the party in 2015.
[24] Their other two younger brothers are Murad Siddiqui and Azad Siddiqui.
[25]
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