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{{Short description|West Bengal politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sayed Sahedullah
| native_name =
| office1 = Agriculture Minister of Bengal
| office = Member of [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| prime_minister = [[Prafulla Chandra Sen]]
| term_start = 1967
| term_end = 1969
| predecessor = ''Constituency established''
| successor = [[Debabrata Datta]]
| constituency = [[Bardhaman Uttar Assembly constituency|Bardhaman Uttar]]
| birth_date = 24 March 1913
| birth_place = [[Bardhaman district]], [[Bengal Presidency]]
| death_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1991|1|24|1913|2|24}}
| party = [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]
| alma_mater =
| relatives =
| children =
}}
'''Syed Shahedullah''' (24 March 1913 – 24 January 1991), also known by his [[daak naam]] '''Mutter''', was a Communist politician and writer. He was the inaugural secretary of party's Bengal and Burwan district branches,<ref>{{cite book|page=26|title=Theorizing a Bengali Nation: Abul Hashim and the United Bengal Movement, 1937–1947|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|year=2024|author=Sen, Sucharita|isbn=9781040040508}}</ref> and the inaugural MLA of [[Bardhaman Uttar Assembly constituency]] in the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]].

==Early life and family==
Shahedullah was born on 24 March 1913 to a [[Bengalis|Bengali]] family of [[Muslim]] [[Syeds]] in the city of [[Burdwan]], [[Bengal Presidency]]. He was the son of Syed Hamidullah and Musammat Habiba Bibi. His maternal grandfather Maulvi Abul Kashem was once a very close colleague of [[Suren Banerjee]]. He was a pioneer of the anti-partition movement and even one of the top leaders of undivided Bangladesh. Another maternal grandfather of Shahedullah, Maulvi Abul Hayat, was a leader of the [[Khilafat Movement]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://marxbadipath.org/article/Syed-Shahedullah/148|website=Marxbadi Path|author=[[Mahboob Zahedi|Zahedi, Mahboob]]|title=কমরেড সৈয়দ শাহেদুল্লাহ্ স্মরণে|trans-title=In memory of Comrade Syed Shahedullah|language=bn}}</ref>

==Career==
In 1931, he worked as a volunteer at the Burdwan District Congress Conference. Later, he became a believer in communism. In 1935, the first district committee of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] in undivided Bangladesh was formed in Burdwan. He was elected as the first secretary of this committee and served in this position for three years. Along with the work of forming the party, he also organized the farmers' movement in the district. He was associated with the farmers' movement for more than fifty years. In 1939, he was one of the leaders of the historic canal tax resistance movement in Burdwan district. In 1948, he served as the secretary of the provincial farmers' meeting. In the same year, when the party was declared illegal, he went into hiding. In 1963-64, he was imprisoned during the Sino-Indian conflict. He became a member of the State Council of the Undivided Communist Party and a member of the CPI (M) State Committee in 1968. From then until 1988, he was a member of the State Committee of the party. He was elected to the [[British Bengal Legislative Council|Bengal Legislative Council]] in 1957, to the Burdwan Municipality in 1964, to the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]] from [[Bardhaman Uttar Assembly constituency]] in 1967,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latestly.com/elections/assembly-elections/west-bengal/1982/bhatar/|title=Bhatar, 1982|website=Latestly|access-date=9 May 2024}}</ref> and to the [[Rajya Sabha]] in 1978. He was famous as an essayist. In 1937, the magazine 'Comrade' was published on his initiative. For a long time, he was the editor of the magazine 'Nandan'. His books include 'Gandhism in the Eyes of Leninists', 'Education and Class Relations', 'Matribhasha and Literature', 'Various Topics' etc.

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