Editing Mohammad Mohammadullah (section)

==Political career==
Mohammadullah was an active member of the East Pakistan [[Awami League]] from 1950.<ref name=":0" /> He had walked into the Awami League office in Nawabpur and told Sheikh Mujibur Rahman he would like to volunteer for Awami League and started working in office management.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Mujibur Rahman |first=Sheikh |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/840484565 |title=The unfinished memoirs |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-670-08546-0 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=210–211 |oclc=840484565}}</ref> In 1953, he was elected as office secretary of [[East Pakistan]] and held the same position till 1972 after being nominated by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> He actively participated in the [[six point movement]] in 1966, for which he was jailed for a long time.
Mohammadullah was elected to the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly on the ticket of the Awami League in 1970.<ref name=":0" /> He was appointed as the political advisor to the Acting President [[Syed Nazrul Islam]] during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] in 1971.<ref name=":0" />

On 10 April 1972, he was elected as the Deputy Speaker of the [[Bangladesh Constituent Assembly]] ([[Ganoparishad]]) and the same year he became the acting [[Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad|Speaker]]. On 12 November 1972, he was elected Speaker. He was elected to the Member of the Parliament (JS) from the Raipur-Lakshmipur constituency, and was re-elected Speaker of the House again in 1973.

He became the Acting President of the Republic on 24 December 1973 and President on 24 January 1974.
In January 1975, the fourth amendment was passed which removed then President Mohammad Mohammadullah from office and made Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman president for a five-year term.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Liton |first1=Shakhawat |title=Did Gen Zia abolish Sangsad's power? |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/did-gen-zia-abolish-sangsads-power-35186 |newspaper=The Daily Star |access-date=26 June 2015}}</ref>

He was made Minister of Land Administration and Land Reforms in the Cabinet of [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]] on 26 January 1975. He was appointed as the Vice President by collaborators of the [[Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman|Assassination of Sheikh Mujib]] in August 1975. Mohammadullah joined the [[Bangladesh Nationalist Party]] (BNP) in 1980. He was appointed vice president by President [[Abdus Sattar (president)|Abdus Sattar]] in March 1982 but the tenure lasted just a day, because General [[Hussain Muhammad Ershad]] took over the reins of administration of the country. Mohammadullah was elected a member of the parliament (JS) once again in 1991 on BNP ticket.<ref name=":0" />