Abul Barkat a martyr of Language Movement was born in 1927 at village Babla in Bharatpur thana of Murshidabad district. His father's name was Shamsuddin.

He passed the Matriculation examination form Talibpur High School in 1945, and the lntermediate examination from Bahrampur Krishnanath College in 1947. After the partition of India he came to Dhaka in 1948. He obtained BA (Hons) degree in Political Science from Dhaka University in 1951. He was an MA student of the same department at 1952.

Abul Barkat was in the procession that students mobilized on the premises of the Dhaka Medical College hostel on 21 February. When the police fired on the gathering, Barkat was shot dead. He was laid to rest in Azimpur graveyard.

Abul Barkat was awarded Ekushe padak in 2000 for his great sacrifice in the Language Movement.