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| native_name = সিরাজ সিকদার
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| known_for = Revolutionary leader in [[Bangladesh]]
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'''Siraj Sikder''' (27 October 1944 – 2 January 1975) was a [[Bangladeshis|Bangladeshi]] [[revolutionary]] politician.<ref name=bpedia/>
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==Early life==
Sikder was born on 27 October 1944 in [[Bhedarganj Upazila|Bhedarganj]], [[Shariatpur District]], East Bengal.<ref name=bpedia>{{cite Banglapedia |author=Islam, Sirajul|article=Sikder, Siraj}}</ref> His father was Abdur Razzaq Sikder, and belonged to a [[Bengali Muslim]] [[zamindar]] family in Chhaygaon. After passing the [[matriculation examination]] from [[Barisal Zilla School]] in 1959, he was admitted into [[Brojomohun College|Barisal Brojomohun College]] in 1961 for I.Sc. He obtained an engineering degree from the East Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology (now [[Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology|BUET]]) in 1967.<ref name=bpedia />

While he was a student he became a member of East Pakistan Student Union. In 1967, he was elected vice-president of the central committee of Student Union and later that year he joined the C & B Department of the government as an engineer. Three months later he left his job to start a private company, named Engineering Limited in [[Teknaf Upazila|Teknaf]].<ref name=bpedia/>

==Political activity==
On 8 January 1968, along with like-minded activists, Sikder formed a clandestine organisation named [[Purba Bangla Sramik Andolon]] (East Bengal Workers Movement EBWM) with an objective to lead a struggle against the revisionism of the existing "Communist" organisations and to form a revolutionary Communist Party. This initiative brought forward a thesis that [[East Bengal]] is a colony of Pakistan and that the principal contradiction in the society is between the bureaucratic [[bourgeoisie]] and feudalists of Pakistan on one hand, and the people of East Bengal on the other hand. Only the independence struggle to form an "independent, democratic, peaceful, non-aligned, progressive" People's Republic of East Bengal, free also from the oppression of [[US imperialism]], Soviet [[social-imperialism]] and Indian Expansionism could lead the society forward towards socialism and communism. In late 1968, Sikder left his job to establish the Mao Tse Tung Research Center in [[Dhaka]] but it was later closed down by the Pakistani government. Sikder became a lecturer at the Technical Training College in Dhaka.<ref name=bpedia/>

In the meantime of war, at a liberated base area named Pearabagan at Bhimruly in [[Jhalokati District]] in the southern part of the country, on 3 June 1971, Sikder founded a new party named [[Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party]] (Proletarian Party of East Bengal) by ideology of [[Marxism]] and Mao Tsetung Thought (not "Maoism", during the 1960s the followers of Mao-line used to identify their ideology as [[Marxism-Leninism]]-[[Maoism|Mao Tse-tung Thought]]). At the beginning of the war, he went to Barisal and he declared that as a free living space and making it his base attempted to initiate his revolution throughout other places. After the Independence of Bangladesh he turned against the Sheikh Mujib government.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NgDks1hUjhMC|title=Political Terrorism: A New Guide To Actors, Authors, Concepts, Data Bases, Theories, And Literature|last=Jongman|first=Albert J. |year=1988 |publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=9781412815666|page=105|language=en}}</ref> In April 1973, he formed Purba Banglar Jatiya Mukti Front (East Bengal United Liberation Front) and declared war on the Bangladeshi Government.<ref name=bpedia/> Under his leadership, the Sarbahara party carried out attacks against money lenders and landlords.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Parvez |first=Saimum |chapter=Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in Bangladesh |year=2016 |editor1-last=Riaz |editor1-first=Ali |editor2-last=Rahman |editor2-first=Mohammad Sajjadur |title=Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nC9-CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA426 |publisher=Routledge |page=426 |isbn=978-1-317-30877-5}}</ref>

==Death==
In 1975, Sikder was arrested at Hali Shahr in [[Chittagong]] by the intelligence force of the government. He was killed in police custody on 3 January 1975 on his way from [[Dhaka Airport]] to the [[Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini|Rakkhi Bahini]] Camp at Savar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.netnewsledger.com/2015/01/02/january-2-this-day-in-history/|title=NetNewsLedger – Thunder Bay News – January 2 – This Day in History|website=NetNewsLedger – Thunder Bay News|date=2 January 2015|access-date=12 April 2022}}</ref><ref name=bpedia/> [[Anthony Mascarenhas]] narrated in his book ''[[Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood]]'' that Siraj's sister [[Shamim Sikder]] accused [[Sheikh Mujib]] of killing her brother.

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://sarbaharapath.com/?cat=15 Selected works of Siraj Sikder in English]
* [http://lesmaterialistes.com/english/conscience-matter-reflection-and-siraj-sikder Conscience, matter, reflection and Siraj Sikder]
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