Md. Keramat Ali

Ali was born into a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Bade Sonapur in Kamalganj, Moulvibazar, Sylhet district, of the British Raj's Assam Province in 1901 CE.

In addition to Bengali, Ali also learnt Arabic, Persian and Urdu from his local maktab and earned the title of Maulvi.

With the growth of the Bengali Language Movement, Ali returned to the political scene to express his support and was noticed by A. K. Fazlul Huq.

In the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election, Ali represented the Krishak Sramik Party as part of the United Front coalition.

He was successful and became a member of the Legislative Assembly though a state of emergency was declared by the central Pakistani authorities on 24 October 1954 effectively abolishing the United Front government.

Ali developed a closer relationship with the President of Pakistan Ayub Khan and subsequently joined the Convention Muslim League.

He represented this party in the 1965 elections competing for the Sylhet-III constituency against Begum Serajunnessa Choudhury and Nawab Ali Safdar Khan.