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]
External links[edit | edit source]
- News report on 2018 Amal Sen Memorial Fair in Jessore
- News report on 2019 remembrance of Amal Sen by 14 Party Alliance
- News report on 2020 Amal Sen Memorial Fair
References[edit | edit source]
- ā 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Tebhaga movement leader Amal Sen's death anniv today". New Age. 17 January 2020.
- ā 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Struggle against Imperialism & Fundamentalism Cannot be Seen in Isolation". People's Democracy. 14 June 2015.
- ā 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Amal Sen Mela begins in Jashore". The News Today. Archived from the original on 28 July 2020.
- ā 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Comrade Amal Sen's 17 death anniv being observed". The Asian Age.
- ā "Fair on Amal Sen begins today". The Independent. Dhaka. 17 January 2020.
- ā 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Talukder Maniruzzaman (1975). "Bangladesh: An Unfinished Revolution?". The Journal of Asian Studies. 34 (4): 891ā911. JSTOR 2054506.
- ā Rajshahi University. Institute of Bangladesh Studies (1978). The Journal of the Institute of Bangladesh Studies. Institute of Bangladesh Studies, University of Rajshahi. p. 95.
- ā 8.0 8.1 The Indian Political Science Review. Department of Political Science, University of Delhi. 1984. p. 169.
- ā 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Amal Sen passes away". The Daily Star. 18 January 2003.
- ā "15th death anniv of comrade Amal Sen observed in Narail". The Daily Observer.