Facts: - party: muslim league laterawami league - death date: 1965 - ethnicity: bengali - known: politician - birth date: 1 february 1918 - name: shamsul haq -lrb- -rrb- - citizenship: british india , later pakistani - image: shamsul haque.jpg - birth place: delduar -rrb- , tangail , british india -lrb- now bangladesh - religion: islam Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of shamsul huq .
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shamsul huq was a bengali politician who led a parliamentary committee in the constituent assembly of pakistan to advocate for the recognition of the bengali language during the language movement of the 1950s .he was also the first and third general secretary of the awami league , which played a key role in bengali nationalist movement in the 1950s and 1960s .shamsul is the very first leader from a middle-class family who won the general election defeating the then famous and high profile muslim league leader khurrum khan panni -lrb- a local zaminder -rrb- of tangail that made a political storm through pakistan .