The making of the constitution of Bangladesh

After the surrender of the Pakistan Army on 16 December 1971, Bangabandhu sheikh mujibur rahman returned to Bangladesh on 10 January 19971 a constitution framework for the new state demanded immediate attention. East Pakistani members of Pakistan’s federal and provincial assemblies were transformed into members of the Constituent Assembly of Bangladesh. The first constitution assembly was charged with deep emotion. It was a moment of communion with the souls of the martyrs who had paid their lives to vindicate the rights of the people to make a constitution for a sovereign and independent peoples republic of Bangladesh.

The constituent assembly had 404 members. After the war, the Constitution Drafting Committee was formed in 1972. The committee included 34 members with Dr. Kamal Hossain as its chairman. The only female member of the committee, Begum Razia Banu, and the only opposition member Suranjit Sengupta. The Committee members traveled in different countries to observe the characteristics of their respective constitution.

Dr. Kamal Hossain raised the draft constitution on 12 October 1972 in the Constituent Assembly.

The Constitution of Bangladesh was adopted on 4 November 1972 and it came into effect on 16 December 1972.

On 14-15 December about 309 member signed in the handwritten constitution it. but NAP member Suranjit Sengupta did not sign on the hand written constitution.

The cost of printing of the Constitution was 14 thousand rupees. A five-member committee was constituted for the decoration of the constitution, which was headed by Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin. The members of the committee for decoration of the constitution were artist Hashim Khan, Janabul Islam, Samarjit Roy Chowdhury and Abul Barak Alvi. Artist Hashem Khan decorated. The hand written constitution was the original writer, artist Abdur Rauf. In 1948, the Constitution was printed on two of the Crabbys brands of offset machines. The copy of the original constitution is preserved in the National Museum.

During the making of the Constitution, the President was Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury and the Prime Minister was the Prime Minister of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The Constitution is divided into 11 sections. There is a suggestion, 7 schedules and 153 paragraphs.

And there were four fundamental principles of state policy in our constitution. Those are nationalism, socialism, democracy, secularism.