Sheikh Razzak Ali

Sheikh Razzak Ali  was a Bangladeshi politician, Deputy Law Minister of State and Deputy Speaker and two time Speaker of Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad. Ali died on 7 June 2015. He was born in 1928 in Hitampur village, Paikgacha in Khulna district, he obtained his MA in Economics from Dhaka University in 1952 and later another MA in Bengali literature from the same university.

Razzak Ali actively participated in the Language Movement of 1952, mass-upsurge of 1969, the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 and movement against autocracy during 1982-1990. In the early 1950s, he started his career as a journalist briefly working for the then Pakistan Observer as a reporter and as a commercial editor for the Weekly Pakistan Post.