Abdur Rezzak Khan (1900–1984)

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anti-British freedom fighter, communist revolutionary and politician. He was a member of the

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in 1969.

Background

He was born in June 1900 at Hakimpur,

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Political movement

During the

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led by Masterda Surya Sen, he secretly supplied arms.

Santosh Kumar Mitra Santosh kumar Mitra (Bengali: সন্তোষ কুমার মিত্র) or Santosh Mitra (15 August 1900 – 16 September 1931) was an activist of the Indian independence movement and a martyr. Early life Mitra was born on 15 August ...

, a revolutionary martyr, was one of his companions. In 1922, he came in contact with Muzaffar Ahmed and

Abdul Halim ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الحليم) is a male Muslim given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Ḥalīm'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gives rise ...

. He was one of the founding member of the Workers and Peasants Party. He led a first time large-scale general strike of jute workers with Abdul Momin and others in 1929.{{Cite web , date=2015-06-25 , title=1929 – First general strike of jute workers , url=https://www.cpim.org/history/1929-first-general-strike-jute-workers , access-date=2022-06-09 , website=Communist Party of India (Marxist) , language=en

References

Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from West Bengal Bengali communists 1900 births 1984 deaths West Bengal MLAs 1969–1971