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'''Amal Sen''' was a [[Bangladesh]]i politician. He was the founding president of the [[Workers Party of Bangladesh]].<ref name=b/><ref name=f/>

Sen was born in Afra village, [[Narail]] on July 19, 1914.<ref name=b>{{cite news |title=Tebhaga movement leader Amal Sen’s death anniv today |url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/96840/tebhaga-movement-leader-amal-sens-death-anniv-today |work=New Age |date=17 January 2020}}</ref> His family were [[zamindar]]s.<ref name=b/> The ancestral home of his family was located at Bakri village, [[Bagherpara Upazila]], [[Jessore District]].<ref name=b/> Sen graduated in chemistry from [[Brajalal College]] in [[Khulna]].<ref name=d>{{cite news |title=Amal Sen Mela begins in Jashore |url=http://www.newstoday.com.bd/index.php?option=details&news_id=2555827&date=2020-01-18 |work=The News Today |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200728202732/http://www.newstoday.com.bd/index.php?option=details&news_id=2555827&date=2020-01-18 |archive-date=28 July 2020}}</ref>

In 1933, after having graduated from college, he became a member of the [[Communist Party of India]].<ref name=d/><ref name=f>{{cite news |title=Struggle against Imperialism & Fundamentalism Cannot be Seen in Isolation |url=https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2015/0614_pd/struggle-against-imperialism-fundamentalism-cannot-be-seen-isolation |work=People's Democracy |date=14 June 2015}}</ref> He took part in the struggle against British rule over India.<ref name=d/> Sen was the leader of [[Tebhaga movement]] in Narail.<ref name=b/><ref name=a/><ref name=c>{{cite news |title=Fair on Amal Sen begins today |url=http://www.theindependentbd.com/printversion/details/232589 |work=The Independent |location=Dhaka |date=17 January 2020}}</ref>

Sen became a leader of the [[East Pakistan Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)]].<ref name=t>{{cite journal |author=Talukder Maniruzzaman |date=1975 |title=Bangladesh: An Unfinished Revolution? |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=891–911 |jstor=2054506}}</ref> Sen led a split from the EPCP(M-L) in 1971.<ref name="Studies1978">{{cite book|author=Rajshahi University. Institute of Bangladesh Studies|title=The Journal of the Institute of Bangladesh Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vd933IRaqJUC|year=1978|publisher=Institute of Bangladesh Studies, University of Rajshahi|page=95}}</ref> Sen was a resistance organizer during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref name=f/> 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]].<ref name=t/><ref name=s>{{cite book|title=The Indian Political Science Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RJwkAQAAIAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Department of Political Science, University of Delhi.|page=169}}</ref> The Sen-Nazrul Islam faction set up the Bangladesh Communist Solidarity Committee.<ref name=t/><ref name=s/> 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.<ref name=t/><ref name=e>{{cite news |title=Amal Sen passes away |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/amal-sen-passes-away |work=The Daily Star |date=18 January 2003}}</ref> He became the general secretary of the [[United Communist League]] in 1986.<ref name=e/> 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.<ref name=e/>

Sen spent a total of 19 years in prison, linked to his political activism.<ref name=a>{{cite news |title=Comrade Amal Sen's 17 death anniv being observed |url=https://dailyasianage.com/news/214565/comrade-amal-sens-17-death-anniv-being-observed |work=The Asian Age |date=}}</ref> Sen died at [[Dhaka]] Community Hospital on January 17, 2003.<ref name=b/><ref name=a/><ref>{{cite news |title=15th death anniv of comrade Amal Sen observed in Narail |url=https://www.observerbd.com/details.php?id=117661 |work=The Daily Observer |date=}}</ref>

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bgC0Xmi7_o News report on 2018 Amal Sen Memorial Fair in Jessore]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCMvzjJuXwA News report on 2019 remembrance of Amal Sen by 14 Party Alliance]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0pTkXrw_ec News report on 2020 Amal Sen Memorial Fair]

==References==
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[[Category:1914 births]]
[[Category:2003 deaths]]
[[Category:Workers Party of Bangladesh politicians]]

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