Nurul Amin
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Nurul Amin (1897 - 1974), a prominent Bengali leader of the Muslim League, served as Chief Minister of East Pakistan, Prime Minister and Vice President of Pakistan.
Nurul Amin was elected as the Chief Minister of East Pakistan in September 1948 when Khawaja Nazimuddin was appointed Governor General on the death of Quaid i Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
In the 1954 elections, the Muslim League was comprehensively defeated by the United Front, an alliance between the Awami League led by Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, the Krishak Sramrik Party of Moulvi A. K. Fazlul Huq, the Nizam i Islam Party of Maulana Athar Ali and the [Ganatantri Dal] led by Haji Muhammad Danish and Mahmud Ali Sylheti.
Even Nurul Amin lost his assembly seat, and the Muslim League was effectively eliminated from the provincial political landscape.
In the 1970 elections, Nurul Amin was elected to the National Assembly as one of only two non Awami League members.
Following the declaration of war between India and Pakistan in December 1971, Nurul Amin was appointed Prime Minister by President General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan on December 6, 1971.
However on December 20, 1971 Yahya Khan resigned. and the Deputy Prime Minister (and Foreign Minister) Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was sworn in as the new President.
Two days later, Nurul Amin was appointed as Vice President of Pakistan, the only person to have held this post. He continued to hold this post until the lifting of Martial Law on April 21, 1972.