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.

He headed the Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh and later became its Prime Minister.

Pressured by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Khan refused to hand over the powers to the majority party, Awami League and situation in East-Pakistan ran out of government control, prompting Khan to authorized military operations, like Operation Searchlight, in the entire provisional state.

In East Pakistan, the Awami League ( led by Mujibur Rahman ) held almost all of the seats, but none in West Pakistan.

** East Pakistan ( now Bangladesh ) independence is declared by local Awami League leader Hannan Sarker on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from Kalurghat Radio Station in Chittagong.

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.

After its independence from Pakistan, Bangladesh followed a socialist economy by nationalizing all industries, proving to be a critical blunder undertaken by the Awami League government.

However, Bangladesh has enjoyed favourable relationship with India during governments formed by the Awami League in 1972 and 1996.

After the Awami League won the 1970 national elections, negotiations to form a new government floundered, resulting in the Bangladesh Liberation War by which the eastern wing of Pakistan seceded, to become Bangladesh.

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.

But in West Pakistan it could not secure a single seat and the percentage of votes secured by the Awami League in the four provinces of West Pakistan were: 0. 07 ( Punjab ), 0. 07 ( Sindh ) 0. 2 ( Pakhtunkhwa and 1. 0 ( Baluchistan ).

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.

However, in recent developments ( as of late 2006 ) the rest of this alliance has aligned within the 14-party alliance led by the Awami League.

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.

After the emergence of independent Bangladesh, the Awami League would win the first general elections in 1973 but was overthrown in 1975 after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The party was forced by subsequent military regimes into political wilderness and many of its senior leaders and actvists were executed and jailed.

Prior to the 2008 general elections in Bangladesh, the Awami League announced in its manifesto, its " Vision 2021 " and " Digital Bangladesh " action plans to transform Bangladesh into a fast developing Middle Income Country by 2021.

Ironically, Awami League later opposed him as Chief adviser ( CA ) until Mukhles Chowdhury brought all parties in elections meeting their demands for the sake of a participatory democracy and in another contradiction Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League government took oath from him.

Two regional parties — the Awami League ( AL ) under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in East Pakistan — won 290 out of 288 seats allotted for East Pakistan.

However, Sheikh Mujib's Awami League won an absolute majority in the legislature, largely because an electoral reform had given East-Pakistan a substantial majority of the seats in the chamber.

They included Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from the Awami League, who served as commerce minister.

After the so-called Agartala Conspiracy Case, and subsequent end of the Ayub Khan regime in Pakistan, the Awami League and its leader Sheikh Mujib reached the peak of their popularity among the East Pakistani Bengali population.

After independence on 16 December 1971, the party formed the national government of Bangladesh. The In 1972, under Sheikh Mujib, the party name was changed to " Awami League ".

Sheikh Mujib renamed the League the " Bangladesh Farmers and Workers Awami League ( Bangladesh Krishok Sramik Awami League, BAKSAL ), and banned all other parties.

In 1981 Sheikh Hasina returned after the largest party faction, the " Bangladesh Awami League ", elected her its president, and she proceeded to take over the party leadership and unite the factions.

* Italy Awami League Sheikh Hasina Mukti Porishod

After the war ended, the government of India installed Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of the Awami League in the office of the Prime Minister.

His eldest daughter Sheikh Hasina Wajed is the present leader of the Awami League and the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

Zia moved to lead the nation in a new direction, significantly different from the ideology and agenda of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League and BAKSAL.

* Awami Muslim League Pakistan, founded in 2008 by Sheikh Rashid Ahmad after differences with PML-Q.

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.

Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League rejected the results, claiming that the election was rigged with the help of the President and the Caretaker government.

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.

* Awami Muslim League Pakistan, founded in 2008 by Sheikh Rashid Ahmad after differences with PML-Q.

The current majority party is the Bangladesh Awami League, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

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.