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{{short description|Bangladeshi politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Serajul Alam Khan
| native_name =
| native_name_lang = bn
| image = সিরাজুল আলম খান .jpg
| office = General Secretary of [[Bangladesh Chatra League ]]
| president =
| term_start = 1965
| term_end = 1967
| successor = Abdur Razzak
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1941|1|6|df=y}}
| birth_place = Begumganj, [[Noakhali]]
| death_date =
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| death_cause =
| nationality = [[British India]]n (1941–1947)<br>[[Pakistani]] (1947–1971)<br>[[Bangladeshi]] (1971–present)
| party = [[Bangladesh Awami League|Awami League]] (1961–1972) <br/> [[Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal|JASAD]] (1972-1996)
| otherparty = [[Swadhin Bangla Biplobi Parishad]] (1961-?)
| spouse =
| children =
| alma_mater =
| website = {{URL|serajulalamkhanpolitics.com|SerajulAlamKhan.com}}
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'''Serajul Alam Khan''' ("'''Dada'''") is a Bangladeshi political analyst, philosopher and writer. He is one of the founders of [[Swadhin Bangla Biplobi Parishad]] (English: Independent Bangladesh Students Movement Council), a secret organisation of [[Chhatra League]], which played a significant role in the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The NUCLEUS issue : ABDUR RAZZAK in Tritiomatra|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJFsUd_qlM |website=Youtube|access-date=3 March 2019}}</ref>

==Biography==
Alam Khan served as the general secretary of the student political organization [[Bangladesh Chhatra League|East Pakistan Chhatra League]] from 1963 to 1965.<ref>{{cite web |script-title=bn:বিগত কমিটি সমূহ |trans-title=Past Committees |url=https://bsl.org.bd/%e0%a6%ac%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%97%e0%a6%a4-%e0%a6%95%e0%a6%ae%e0%a6%bf%e0%a6%9f%e0%a6%bf-%e0%a6%b8%e0%a6%ae%e0%a7%82%e0%a6%b9/ |website=Bangladesh Chhatra League |language=bn}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Serajul Alam Khan improves, tests negative for COVID-19 |url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/127420/serajul-alam-khan-improves-tests-negative-for-covid-19 |work=New Age |date=17 January 2021}}</ref>

Soon after returning to free the country from dissension within pro-liberation mainstream power base, Serajul became conspicuous between left-of-center leadership and simmering far left young radicals.<ref>{{cite news |title=Democracy In Bangladesh: Reality Vs. Utopia | url=http://www.ebangladesh.com/2165 |newspaper=EBangladesh |date=11 January 2010 |access-date=3 March 2019 }}</ref> Khan was involved in a political struggle with [[Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Sofa |first=Ahmad |author-link=Ahmed Sofa |date=16 April 2015 |orig-year=Excerpt of book first published 1993 |title=JSD: Sofa's sentimental evaluation |url=http://www.probeweekly.com/Details/2015/04/16/211 |newspaper=Probe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208164247/http://www.probeweekly.com/Details/2015/04/16/211 |archive-date=8 December 2015 |access-date=8 December 2015}}</ref> Alam Khan developed an ideological difference from [[Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani]], due to the former's advocacy of [[scientific socialism]], thus forming the [[Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hossain |first1=Kazi Mobarak |title=Hasanul Haq Inu’s JaSoD splits as he names Shirin general secretary |url=http://bdnews24.com/politics/2016/03/12/hasanul-haq-inus-jasod-splits-as-he-names-shirin-general-secretary|access-date=11 July 2016 |newspaper=Dhaka Tribune |date=13 March 2016}}</ref> In 1975, [[Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani]] urged him to join [[Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League|BaKSAL]], but he refused.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hossain |first1=M. Sanjeeb |title=Know your friends and foes |url=http://opinion.bdnews24.com/2012/11/03/know-your-friends-and-foes/ |newspaper=Bdnews24.com |date=3 November 2012 |type=Opinion |access-date=8 December 2015}}</ref>

===Current activities===
Alam Khan now serves as a professor of political science in the [[University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh]], a post he has held since 1996. In 2006, he was hospitalized in [[London]] and underwent a [[bypass operation]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Sirajul Alam Khan hospitalised |url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/2006/08/17/d608170626105.htm |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=17 August 2006 |access-date=8 December 2015 }}</ref>

==References==
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==Further reading==
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* {{cite journal |last=Jahan |first=Rounaq |author-link=Rounaq Jahan |date=February 1973 |title=Bangladesh in 1972: Nation Building in a New State |journal=[[Asian Survey]] |volume=13 |issue=2 |page=207 |jstor=2642736}}
* {{cite journal |last=Maniruzzaman |first=Talukder |date=February 1976 |title=Bangladesh in 1975: The Fall of the Mujib Regime and Its Aftermath |journal=[[Asian Survey]] |volume=16 |issue=2 |page=120 |jstor=2643140}}
* {{cite journal |last=Lifschultz |first=Lawrence |date=August 1977 |title=Abu Taher's Last Testament: Bangladesh: The Unfinished Revolution |journal=[[Economic and Political Weekly]] |volume=12 |issue=33/34 |page=1319– |jstor=4365850}}
* {{cite magazine |last=Bird |first=Kai |author-link=Kai Bird |date=17 December 1977 |title=Mutiny in Bangladesh |magazine=[[The Nation (magazine)|The Nation]] |page=653}}
* {{cite journal |last=J. |first=N. M. |date=25 March 1978 |title=Murder in Dacca: Ziaur Rahman's Second Round |journal=[[Economic and Political Weekly]] |volume=13 |issue=12 |page=554 |jstor=4366470}}
* {{cite book |editor1-last=Fukui |editor1-first=Haruhiro |year=1985 |title=Political Parties of Asia and the Pacific |volume=Vol. 1: Afghanistan-Korea (ROK) |publisher=Greenwood Press |pages=50, 72 |isbn=0-313-25143-6}}
* {{cite journal |last=Ludden |first=David |date=27 August 2011 |title=The Politics of Independence in Bangladesh |journal=[[Economic and Political Weekly]] |volume=46 |issue=35 |page=85 |jstor=23017911}}

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