Today is the 89th birthday of Jatiya Party Chairman of Hussain Muhammad Ershad who served as the 10th President of Bangladesh.
He was born on this day in Dinhata, British India in 1930. His parents migrated from Dinhata (subdivision of Coochbehar district of present West Bengal) to East Pakistan following Partition in 1947.
He graduated from the University of Dhaka in 1950 and was commissioned into the Pakistan Army in 1952 from ‘Officers Training School Kohat’. He was an adjutant in the East Bengal regimental depot in Chittagong. He also completed advanced courses from the Command and Staff College in Quetta…
