The Awami League is a socialist and secularist political party in Bangladesh. Founded on 23 June 1949 by Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, Yar Mohammad Khan, and Shamsul Huq, the Awami League fought for the independence of Bengal from Pakistan, and in 1971, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman led the Awami League to victory in the Bangladesh Liberation War. Since then, the Awami League has been a major party, having 232/300 Jatyo Sangshad seats in 2016. The party advocated the separation of church and state in Bangladesh, a country that suffered from religious violence and sectarian tensions, and the party was known for its purge of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami politicians during the 2010s, executing or imprisoning several rivals for their roles in collaborating with Pakistan during the 1971 war.
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