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Amal Sen

Amal Sen

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Amal Sen was a Bangladeshi politician. He was the founding president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh.[1][2]

Sen was born in Afra village, Narail on July 19, 1914.[1] His family were zamindars.[1] The ancestral home of his family was located at Bakri village, Bagherpara Upazila, Jessore District.[1] Sen graduated in chemistry from Brajalal College in Khulna.[3]

In 1933, after having graduated from college, he became a member of the Communist Party of India.[3][2] He took part in the struggle against British rule over India.[3] Sen was the leader of Tebhaga movement in Narail.[1][4][5]

Sen became a leader of the East Pakistan Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist).[6] Sen led a split from the EPCP(M-L) in 1971.[7] Sen was a resistance organizer during the Bangladesh Liberation War.[2] The EPCP(M-L) led by Sen and Nazrul Islam was one of the groups participating in the Coordination Committee of the Bangladesh Liberation Struggle set up in Calcutta.[6][8] The Sen-Nazrul Islam faction set up the Bangladesh Communist Solidarity Committee.[6][8] In 1972 he became the general secretary of the Bangladesh Communist Party (Leninist), a new open party into which the Amal Sen-Nazrul Islam-led EPCP(M-L) had merged.[6][9] He became the general secretary of the United Communist League in 1986.[9] Between 1992 and 2000 he served as president of the re-united Workers Party of Bangladesh, after 2000 he remained a member of the Central Committee of the party.[9]

Sen spent a total of 19 years in prison, linked to his political activism.[4] Sen died at Dhaka Community Hospital on January 17, 2003.[1][4][10]

References

  1. [1]
    "Tebhaga movement leader Amal Sen's death anniv today". New Age. 17 January 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Struggle against Imperialism & Fundamentalism Cannot be Seen in Isolation". People's Democracy. 14 June 2015.
  3. [3]
    "Amal Sen Mela begins in Jashore". The News Today. Archived from the original on 28 July 2020.
  4. [4]
    "Comrade Amal Sen's 17 death anniv being observed". The Asian Age.
  5. [5]
    "Fair on Amal Sen begins today". The Independent. Dhaka. 17 January 2020.
  6. [6]
    Talukder Maniruzzaman (1975). "Bangladesh: An Unfinished Revolution?". The Journal of Asian Studies. 34 (4): 891–911. JSTOR 2054506.
  7. [7]
    Rajshahi University. Institute of Bangladesh Studies (1978). The Journal of the Institute of Bangladesh Studies. Institute of Bangladesh Studies, University of Rajshahi. p. 95.
  8. [8]
    The Indian Political Science Review. Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. 1984. p. 169.
  9. [9]
    "Amal Sen passes away". The Daily Star. 18 January 2003.
  10. [10]
    "15th death anniv of comrade Amal Sen observed in Narail". The Daily Observer.
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