During this time, the 1954 elections were held which saw the complete defeat of Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin by the nexus of Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Party allying with the Awami League.

The Awami League gained the control of the East Pakistan after appointing Huseyn Suhrawardy for the office of Prime minister.

The support for state autonomy grew when Awami League introduced the Six point movement in 1966, and participated with full force in the 1970 general elections in which the Awami League had won and secured the exclusive mandate of East-Pakistan.

After the general elections, President General Yahya Khan attempted to negotiate with both Pakistan Peoples Party and Awami League to share power in the central government but talks were failed when President Yahya Khan authorized an armed operation ( codename Searchlight ) to attack the Awami League.

As response to this operation, the Awami League announced the declaration of independence of East Pakistan on March 26, 1971 and began an armed struggle against the Pakistan, with India staunchly supporting Awami League by the means of providing arm ammunition to its guerrilla forces.

The United Front, Communist Party of Pakistan and the Awami League returned to power, inflicting sever defeat to Muslim League.

The nexus of Communist Party of Pakistan | Communist Party, Shramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal | Marxist-Leninist and Awami League won the 1954 elections for East Pakistan.

The Eastern Military High Command was under constant pressure from the Awami League, and requested an active duty officer to control the command under such extreme pressure.

The tense diplomatic relations between East and West Pakistan reached a climax in 1970 when the Awami League, the largest East Pakistani political party, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, ( Mujib ), won a landslide victory in the national elections in East Pakistan.

This gave the Awami League the constitutional right to form an absolute government.

All major Awami League leaders including elected leaders of National Assembly and Provincial Assembly fled to neighboring India and an exile government was formed headed by Mujibur Rahman.

The democratic socialist leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, allied with left-wing parties, participated in General elections held in December 1970 saw the far left Awami League under Mujibur Rahman win an overall majority of seats in parliament ( all but two of the 162 seats allocated to East Pakistan ).

The Awami League advocated greater autonomy for East Pakistan but the military government did not permit Mujibur Rahman to form a government.

The elections sparked the gruesome violence in Pakistan and tension between Awami League and the Pakistan Peoples Party began to rise.

The Awami League and its allies protested, saying that the elections would not be fair because of alleged bias by the caretaker government in favor of Khaleda Zia and the BNP.

The Awami League and its allies protested, saying that the elections would not be fair because of alleged bias by the caretaker government in favor of Khaleda Zia and the BNP.

The four alleged victims were beaten to death during clashes between the Awami League and rival party activists.

During 1970, while Azam was the head of Jamaat-i-Islami, a number of political rallies, including rallies of Jamaat-i-Islaami, were attacked by armed mobs alleged to be incited by the Awami League.

These divisions were particularly sharp between Wali Khan and National Awami Party President Maulana Bhashani, as the Pro-Mao Bhashani was alleged to have unofficially supported Ayub Khan because of the government's pro-China policy.

The Awami League, the dominant political force in Bangladesh, was an explicitly Socialist party aligned with Moscow.

This operation was remarkably successful, and by 1977 the Afghan government of Mohammed Daoud Khan was willing to settle all outstanding issues in exchange for a lifting of the ban on the National Awami Party and a commitment towards provincial autonomy for Pashtuns, which was already guaranteed by Pakistan's Constitution, but stripped by the Bhutto government when the One Unit scheme was introduced.

When President was sick during May, June and July 2006 period then there was wide rumour by Awami League and a section of media that he died and also there was publicity that he was going to be removed, both issues were addressed very boldly by Mukhlesur Rahman Chowdhury that he was alive and there was no such decision to remove him or oust him.

As per provision, Justice Hasan started recruiting advisers and presidency was ready to give him oath of Chief Advisor ( CA ) but later he could not overcome the pressure of Awami League and refused to take this responsibility, which further deteriorated Bangladesh political situation.

He left office on February 12, 2009, when Awami League leader Zillur Rahman was sworn in to succeed him as President of Bangladesh.

His eldest son Ghani Khan was a poet, his other son Khan Abdul Wali Khan is the founder and leader of the Awami National Party and was the Leader of the Opposition in the Pakistan National Assembly.

On 22 December 1970 the Secretary of the Awami League, Tajuddin Ahmad, claimed that his party having won an absolute majority had a clear mandate and was quiet competent to frame a constitution and to form a central government on its own.

Bhutto announced on 15 February that his party would not attend the National Assembly unless there was ' some amount of reciprocity ' from the Awami League.

A Gana Oikya Jote was formed on 14 October 1973 consisting of the Bangladesh Awami League, Communist Party and National Awami Party ( Muzaffar ) with a view to prepare ground for establishing socialism in the country, and a Jote Committee was constituted consisting of 19 members with three members from CPB.

The Awami League was founded in Dhaka, the former capital of the Pakistani province of East Bengal, in 1949 by Bengali nationalists Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Shamsul Huq, and later Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy who went on to become Prime Minister of Pakistan.

The Awami League was established as the Bengali alternative to the domination of the Muslim League in Pakistan and over centralisation of the government.

BNP opposed him as Awami League opposed K M Hasan.

The BNP described as the Islamic consciousness of the people of Muslim majority Bangladesh, in order to counter the secular Awami League.

The party faced a landslide defeat at the hands of the Bangladesh Awami League in the 2008 Bangladesh general election, in which the 4-party alliance led by BNP won only 32 seats out of 299 constituencies, of which the BNP alone got 29.

This election was seen as a showdown between the Awami League and the BNP.

In the 12 June 1996 polls, BNP lost to Sheikh Hasina's Awami League but emerged as the largest opposition party in the country's parliamentary history with 116 seats.

Aiming to return to power, the BNP formed a four-party alliance on 6 January 1999 with its former political foe the Jatiya Party, and the Islamic party of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and the Islami Oikya Jot and launched several agitation programmes against the ruling Awami League.

After Begum Khaleda Zia's BNP Bangladesh Nationalist Party five-year term ended in January 1996, the country went to the polls on February 15, 1996 where elections were boycotted by all major opposition parties including BNP ' S arch-rival Sheikh Hasina's Awami League.

The Awami League and its allies did not accept the results and called a month-long general strike and blockades to overthrow the illegitimate BNP government.

During the last election Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina, prominent AL figure ( and current President of Bangladesh ) Zillur Rahman, BNP leader Khaleda Zia and Jatiya Party leader H M Ershad all were candidates in the maximum possible number of constituencies.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) won the election, and Hasina's Awami League emerged as the largest opposition party.

The Awami League was expected to win it back, but the seat was won by the BNP.

The BNP also accused the Awami League of politicising the administration and state-owned media.

Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( BNP ) boycotted it.

Although the BNP led by Khaleda Zia boycotted, the Awami League led by Sheikh Hasina participated in the Bangladeshi general election, 1986.

Both the BNP and the Awami League boycotted the Bangladeshi general election, 1988.

It should be noted that Transparency International branded Bangladesh as the most corrupt country in the world for the first time during the tenure of Awami League ( 1996 to 2001 ) and never went off the number one spot till the fall of BNP ( 2001 to 2006 ).

Zia's widow Khaleda Zia now led the BNP, which allied itself with the Awami League, led by Mujib's daughter Sheikh Hasina ; Awami League stopped its support to Ershad and resigned from the Parliament in 1987.

When his relations with the ruling Awami League subsequently deteriorated as he joined hands with the other main opposition BNP of Khaleda Zia.

Both Khaleda Zia of BNP and Sheikh Hasina of Awami League allied together to oust HM Ershad.