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Political party in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League

বাংলাদেশ কৃষক শ্রমিক আওয়ামী লীগ
Bangladesh Peasants' Workers' People's League

Abbreviation| BaKSAL
Leader| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Founder| Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Founded| 24 February 1975
Dissolved| 15 August 1975
Merger of| AL
CPB
NAP(M)
BJL
Headquarters| Dhaka
Ideology| Mujibism
Bangladeshi nationalism
Second Revolution

* Politics of Bangladesh
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The Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ কৃষক শ্রমিক আওয়ামী লীগ, lit. 'Bangladesh Worker-Peasant's People's League'; BaKSAL/বাকশাল) was a political front comprising the Bangladesh Awami League, the Communist Party of Bangladesh, the National Awami Party (Muzaffar) and Bangladesh Jatiya League.[1]

Following the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh, enacted on 25 January 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formed BaKSAL on 24 February.[2] A presidential order also outlawed all political parties other than BaKSAL, creating a state of emergency and obligating other parties to join the front.

The party advocated for democratic socialism as a part of reforms under the theory of the Second Revolution, which BaKSAL worked to achieve the objectives of.[3]

BaKSAL was dissolved after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975.[4] As a result, all the political parties that merged with BaKSAL became independent again.

## Background

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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (also known as Mujibur) and the Awami League won a landslide victory in the 1973 Bangladeshi general election. However, Mujibur had difficulties with fighting corruption in his own government and the increase in leftism caused by the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal. In the face of growing unrest, on 28 December 1974, Mujibur declared a state of emergency.[5] He pushed the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution through Parliament on 25 January 1975. The amendment was passed in the Parliament unanimously. It dissolved all political parties, including the ruling party, the Awami League, and gave Mujibur the authority to form the Bangladesh Krishak Shramik Awami League (shortened as 'BaKSAL'), which would become the national party of Bangladesh.[6] The party was designed to overhaul the administrative system of Bangladesh to make it people-oriented. BaKSAL had similarities with the National Union Party's formation in the United States, which occurred at the height of the American Civil War.

## Formation

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BaKSAL was formed by Mujibur on 24 February 1975,[7][8] and it officially replaced the nation's other political organizations and associations on 1 September 1975; other political organizations were banned afterwards. All MPs and political parties were required to join the party; any MP who missed a parliamentary session, abstained, or failed to vote with the party would lose their seat.[9] As a result, most Awami League politicians and others from different parties joined BaKSAL; however, the Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal, Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party, Purbo Bangla Sammobadi Dal-Marxbadi-Leninbadi (East Bengal Communist Party Marxist–Leninist), East Pakistan Communist Party, and Bangladesh Communist Party (Leninist) did not join.[7] Civilian government employees, professionals, and trade union leaders were also compelled to join the party.[7]

President Mujibur Rahman, BaKSAL's chairman, appointed a fifteen-member executive committee, a 120-member central committee, and five front organizations, namely, Jatiya Krishak League, Jatiya Sramik League, Jatiya Mahila League, Jatiya Juba League, and Jatiya Chhatra League (peasants, workers, women, youth, and students respectively) for the party.[10] All members of the executive committee and central committee were appointed as ministers.

### Executive committee

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1. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Chairman)
2. Syed Nazrul Islam (Vice-Chairman)
3. Muhammad Mansur Ali (Secretary General)
4. Abul Hasnat Muhammad Qamaruzzaman
5. Abdul Mannan
6. Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad
7. Abdul Malek Ukil
8. Professor M. Yousuf Ali
9. Manaranjan Dhar
10. Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury
11. Sheikh Abdul Aziz
12. Mohiuddin Ahmed
13. Gazi Golam Mostafa
14. Zillur Rahman
15. Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani
16. Abdur Razzaq

### Central Committee

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1. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
2. Syed Nazrul Islam
3. Muhammad Mansur Ali
4. Abdul Mannan
5. Abdul Malik Ukil
6. Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad
7. A.H.M Kamaruzzaman
8. Kazi Linchon
9. Mahmudullah
10. Abdus Samad Azad
11. M. Yousuf Ali
12. Phani Bhushan Majumder
13. Kamal Hossain
14. Muhammad Sohrab Hossain
15. Abdur Rab Serniabat
16. Manaranjan Dhar
17. Abdul Matin
18. Asaduzzanan
19. Md Korban Ali
20. Dr. Azizul Rahman Mallik
21. Dr. Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury
22. Tofael Ahmed
23. Shah Moazzam Hossain
24. Abdul Momin Talukdar
25. Dewan Farid Gazi
26. Professor Nurul Islam Choudhry
27. Taheruddin Thakur
28. Moslemuddin Khan
29. Professor Abu Sayeed
30. Nurul Islam Manzur
31. KM Obaidur Rahman
32. Dr. Khitish Chandra Mandal
33. Reazuddin Ahmad
34. M. Baitullah
35. Rahul Quddus (Secretary)
36. Zillur Rahman
37. Mohiuddin Ahmad MP
38. Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani
39. Abdur Razzaq
40. Sheikh Shahidul Islam
41. Anwar Choudhry
42. Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury
43. Taslima Abed
44. Abdur Rahim
45. Abdul Awal
46. Lutfur Rahman
47. A.K. Muzibur Rahman
48. Dr. Mofiz Choudhry
49. Dr. Alauddin Ahammad
50. Dr. Ahsanul Haq
51. Raushan Ali
52. Azizur Rahman Akkas
53. Sheikh Abdul Aziz
54. Salahuddin Yusuf
55. Michael Sushil Adhikari
56. Kazi Abdul Hakim
57. Mollah Jalaluddin
58. Shamsuddin Mollah
59. Gour Chandra Bala
60. Gazi Ghulam Mustafa
61. Shamsul Haq
62. Shamsuzzoha
63. Rafiqueuddin Bhuiya
64. Syed Ahmad
65. Shamsur Rahman Khan Shahjahan
66. Nurul Haq
67. Kazi Zahirul Qayyum
68. Capt.(Retd) Sujjat Ali
69. M.R. Siddiqui
70. MA Wahab
71. Chittaranjan Sutar,
72. Sayeda Razia Banu
73. Ataur Rahman Khan
74. Khandakar Muhammad Illyas
75. Mong Pru Saire
76. Professor Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury
77. Ataur Rahman
78. Pir Habibur Rahman
79. Syed Altaf Hossain
80. Muhammad Farhad
81. Matia Chowdhury
82. Hazi Danesh
83. Taufiq Inam (Secretary)
84. Nurul Islam (Secretary)
85. Fayezuddin Ahmed (Secretary)
86. Mahbubur Rahman (Secretary)
87. Abdul Khaleque
88. Muzibul Haq (Secretary)
89. Abdur Rahim (Secretary)
90. Moinul Islam (Secretary)
91. Sayeeduzzaman (Secretary)
92. Anisuzzaman (Secretary)
93. Dr. A. Sattar (Secretary)
94. M.A Samad (Secretary)
95. Abu Tahir (Secretary)
96. Al Hossaini (Secretary)
97. Dr Tajul Hossain (Secretary)
98. Motiur Rahman. Chairman of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh
99. Maj. Gen K.M. Safiullah
100. Air Vice Marshal Abdul Karim Khandker
101. Commodore M.H. Khan
102. Maj Gen. Khalilur Rahman
103. A.K. Naziruddin Ahmed
104. Dr. Abdul Matin Chowdhury
105. Dr. Mazharul Islam
106. Dr. Sramul Haq
107. Badal Ghosh
108. ATM Syed Hossain
109. Nurul Islam
110. Dr. Nilima Ibrahim
111. Dr. Nurul Islam PG Hospital
112. Obaidul Huq Editor Observer
113. Anwar Hossain Manju Editor Ittefaq
114. Mizanur Rahman Editor Bangladesh Press International
115. Manawarul Islam
116. Abu Thaer Bhuiyan
117. Brig. A. N. M. Nuruzzaman DG Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini
118. Kamruzzaman teachers Association
119. Dr. Mazhar Ali Kadri

## Activities

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Regulations originating from BaKSAL included the promulgation of the Newspaper Ordinance (June 1975; Annulment of Declaration). Under this, the declarations of all but four state-owned newspapers, the Dainik Bangla, Bangladesh Observer, The Daily Ittefaq, and Bangladesh Times, were annulled and banned. The intention of the annulment was to bring all news media under temporary governmental control as a means of combating the smuggling and black market of newspaper, which prevented Bangladesh from exporting the paper to foreign countries, cutting off revenue[citation needed] that could have helped prevent the Bangladesh famine of 1974.

In another effort to decentralize authority, 61 district governors were appointed with training for governorship—a new development in the history of Bangladesh. Local elections were also peaceful and free. In the 1975 Kishorganj local election, a schoolteacher won against the nephew of Syed Nazrul Islam, a leader of BakSAL at the time.

## Party in the same name

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Although BaKSAL was put into effect during September 1975, the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members eventually led to the party's dissolution. However, another party participated in the 1986 and 1991 general elections in the same name; in 1986, the party's symbol was a boat, while it was a bicycle in 1991. The party acted independently until the 1990s, when almost all of its party leaders left the organization to join the Bangladesh Awami League.[11]

## Legacy

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In the 1974 Far Eastern Economic Review, Lawrence Lifschultz wrote how Bangladeshis thought that "the corruption and malpractices and plunder of national wealth" were "unprecedented" during Mujibur's governance.[12] Some of BakSAL's goals were adopted by successors of Mujibur such as President Ziaur Rahman, who worked against JASAD (Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal) and decreased the liberal sentiment in the country.

## References

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1. ^ Rono, Haider Akbar Khan (2010). Śatābdī pēriẏē শতাব্দী পেরিয়ে (in Bengali). Taraphadara prakashani. p. 335\. ISBN 978-984-779-027-5.
2. ^ Ahmed, Moudud (1984) [First published 1983]. Bangladesh: Era of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag. p. 245\. ISBN 3-515-04266-0.
3. ^ "Bangladesh: The Second Revolution". Time. 10 February 1975. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
4. ^ "Bangabandhu: a forbidden name for 16yrs". The Daily Star. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2016.
5. ^ "State of emergency announced in Dacca". The Tuscaloosa News. Associated Press. 29 December 1974. p. 6A. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
6. ^ "Mujib names his Govt". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australian Associated Press-Reuter. 28 January 1975. p. 4. Retrieved 4 January 2016.
7. ^ a b c Khan, Zillur R. (2001). "From Mujib to Zia, Elite Politics in Bangladesh". In Ahmed, Rafiuddin (ed.). Religion, Identity & Politics: Essays on Bangladesh. International Academic Publishers. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-1-58868-081-5. "... landslide victory of the Awami League in the 1973 elections ... [those] who were earlier inspired by the charisma of Sheikh Mujib grew increasingly restive in view of what they viewed as widespread corruption ... making it mandatory for members of parliament to join the single national party, called the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BaKSAL), if they wanted to retain their seats ... most Awami Leaguers, and many others from the other parties, decided to join the BaKSAL. Between Mujib's BaKSAL and total political oblivion, few were left with any choice ... All higher bureaucrats, professional people and trade union leaders were urged to join."
8. ^ "'Second Revolution' Is Sham: No Real Change Seen in Bangladesh". The Capital Times. Madison, Wisconsin. Los Angeles Times News Service. 28 February 1975. p. 6. Retrieved 4 January 2016 - via newspaperarchive.com.
9. ^ "One man, one party govern Bangladesh". The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 January 1975. p. 1. Retrieved 4 January 2016 - via news.google.com.
10. ^ Maniruzzaman, Talukder (February 1976). "Bangladesh in 1975: The Fall of the Mujib Regime and Its Aftermath". Asian Survey. 16 (2). University of California Press: 119–129. doi:10.2307/2643140. JSTOR 2643140.
11. ^ "Near East & South Asia: Bangladesh" (PDF). JPRS Report. 1: 10. 12 September 1991. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
12. ^ "Tread Warily to the Dream". The Telegraph. Calcutta, India. 6 February 2010. Archived from the original on 8 February 2010.

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