Amal Sen was a Bangladeshi politician. He was the founding president of the

Workers Party of Bangladesh The Workers Party of Bangladesh ( bn, বাংলাদেশের ওয়ার্কার্স পার্টি) is a communist party in Bangladesh. Rashed Khan Menon is the president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh and Anisur Rahm ...

. Sen was born in Afra village,

Narail Narail ( bn, নড়াইল, pron: ''nɔɽail'') is a district in south-western Bangladesh. It is a part of Khulna Division. History Narail town was named after a feudal lord (a zamindar). The zamindars established a market at Roopgonj, als ...

on July 19, 1914. His family were

zamindar A zamindar ( Hindustani: Devanagari: , ; Persian: , ) in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semiautonomous ruler of a province. The term itself came into use during the reign of Mughals and later the British had begun using it as a ...

s. The ancestral home of his family was located at Bakri village,

Bagherpara Upazila Bagherpara ( bn, বাঘারপাড়া) is an upazila of Jessore District in the Division of Khulna, Bangladesh. Geography Bagherpara is located at . It has a total area of 308.29 km2. Demographics According to the 2011 Bangladesh c ...

Jessore District Jessore District (Bengali: যশোর, pronounced Jaw-shore, Anglicised: Jessore), officially spelled Jashore District from April 2018, is a district in the southwestern region of Bangladesh. It is bordered by India to the west, Khulna Distr ...

. Sen graduated in chemistry from

Brajalal College Government Brajalal College ( bn, সরকারি ব্রজলাল কলেজ), also known as BL College, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Bangladesh. It is located in Khulna, a major metropolis of the country. ...

Khulna Khulna ( bn, খুলনা, ) is the third-largest city in Bangladesh, after Dhaka and Chittagong. It is the administrative centre of Khulna District and Khulna Division. Khulna's economy is the third-largest in Bangladesh, contributing $53 b ...

. In 1933, after having graduated from college, he became a member of the

Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (CPI) is the oldest Marxist–Leninist communist party in India and one of the nine national parties in the country. The CPI was founded in modern-day Kanpur (formerly known as Cawnpore) on 26 December 1925. H ...

. He took part in the struggle against British rule over India. Sen was the leader of

Tebhaga movement Tebhaga movement (1946–1947) was significant peasant agitation, initiated in Bengal by the All India Kisan Sabha of peasant front of the Communist Party of India. History At that time sharecroppers had contracted to give half of their harv ...

in Narail. Sen became a leader of the

East Pakistan Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

. Sen led a split from the EPCP(M-L) in 1971. Sen was a resistance organizer during the

Bangladesh Liberation War The Bangladesh Liberation War ( bn, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ, , also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh) was a revolution and War, armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Benga ...

. 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 Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, the official name until 2001) is the Capital city, capital of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal, on the eastern ba ...

. The Sen-Nazrul Islam faction set up the Bangladesh Communist Solidarity Committee. In 1972 he became the general secretary of the

Bangladesh Communist Party (Leninist) The Bangladesh Communist Party (Leninist) was a communist party in Bangladesh. BCP(L) was founded in Calcutta in the fall of 1971, by several small communist splinter factions. The core of founders of BCP(L) consisted of Kazi Zafar Ahmed, Rashed Kh ...

, a new open party into which the Amal Sen-Nazrul Islam-led EPCP(M-L) had merged. He became the general secretary of the

United Communist League United may refer to: Places * United, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * United, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Arts and entertainment Films * ''United'' (2003 film), a Norwegian film * ''United'' (2011 film), a BBC Two fi ...

in 1986. 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 Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ...

of the party. Sen spent a total of 19 years in prison, linked to his political activism. Sen died at

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...

Community Hospital on January 17, 2003.

External links

News report on 2018 Amal Sen Memorial Fair in JessoreNews report on 2019 remembrance of Amal Sen by 14 Party AllianceNews report on 2020 Amal Sen Memorial Fair

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sen, Amal 1914 births 2003 deaths Workers Party of Bangladesh politicians Brajalal College alumni