Muhammad Ali Bogra

Muhammad Ali Bogra ( Bengali: মোহাম্মদ আলী বগুড়া, Mohammad Ali Bagura; * August 12, 1909; † July 15, 1963 ) was a Pakistani politician of Bengali origin. He was Prime Minister of Pakistan 1953 until 1955.

Life

Muhammad Ali Bogra came from a family of Muslim rulers ( Nawabs ) of Bengal. He studied at the University of Calcutta and then began a political career. In 1937 he was elected to the parliament of the province of Bengal and was the Chief Minister of the Province, Khawaja Nazimuddin, Minister of Health.

After the independence of Pakistan in 1947 Bogra was transferred to the Foreign Service and served in Burma (Myanmar ), Canada, and finally as ambassador to the United States.

Political career

In 1953 Bogra was the successor of Khawaja Nazimuddin Prime Minister and began to draft a new constitution for Pakistan. After the so-called " Bogra Formula " should get a two - chamber parliament Pakistan. The House of Lords should have 50 seats, ten for each province. Since West Pakistan had four provinces, it would get 40 seats, the much more populous East Pakistan only ten. The House should have 300 deputies, which is distributed according to the population: West Pakistan 135 seats, 165 East Pakistan if the President was a West Pakistanis had the prime minister of East Pakistan come, or vice versa. The plan was very popular, but disappeared from the scene, as Ghulam Muhammad dissolved the Parliament towards the end of 1953.

Bogra was forced to resign and went to his old post as ambassador to the United States back.

In 1962 he made a career move again and was Secretary of State. A year later, Muhammad Ali Bogra, died and was buried in his hometown of Bogra in what is now Bangladesh.