Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal () is the farmers wing of the

Bangladesh Nationalist Party The Bangladesh Nationalist Party ( bn, বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী দল, Bangladesh Jātīyotābādī Dol; BNP) is a centre-right to right-wing nationalist, political party in Bangladesh and one of the major ...

History

President Ziaur Rahman established Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal on 30 December 1980. The first convening committee was led by Justice Abdus Sattar. In 1992, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and

Shamsuzzaman Dudu Shamsuzzaman Dudu is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament from Chuadanga-1. He is the vice-chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party. He studied at Dhaka University and now is a member of the Alumni Assoc ...

were appointed the president and general secretary of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal. On 16 May 1998, Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal committee was formed with

Mahbubul Alam Tara Mahbubul Alam Tara ( bn, মাহাবুবুল আলম ; 1939–2014) was a Bangladeshi entrepreneur, politician, and member of parliament. Early life Tara was born in Faradnagar village at Feni on 1939. He studied in Khaiyara School, F ...

as president and

as general secretary. Tara joined Awami League and Mojibur Rahman was appointed the President. After Rahman's death,

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir (born 26 January 1948) is a Bangladeshi politician. He has been the secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) since 2016. He was a member of the parliament for Thakurgaon-1 constituency from 2001 t ...

, was appointed president. Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal held its biennial conference in October 2003 in Nilphamari District. The conference was attended by the President of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal Mozibur Rahman,

Asadul Habib Dulu Asadul Habib Dulu is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former Member of Parliament from Lalmonirhat Sadar. He was a deputy minister of food and disaster management during 2001 to 2006. Career Dulu is the organizing secretary, R ...

, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, and

Shahrin Islam Tuhin Muhammad Shahrin Islam Chowdhury ( bn, মোহাম্মদ শাহরিন ইসলাম চৌধুরী), also known by his daak naam Tuhin ( bn, তুহিন), is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and former Member of Pa ...

. The criticised Awami League and called former President

Hussain Mohammad Ershad Lt. Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad ( bn, হুসেইন মুহাম্মদ এরশাদ; 1 February 1930 – 14 July 2019) was a Bangladeshi Army Chief politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990, a time ma ...

an emigrant from India and not a "son of the soil". In 2007, the president and organizing secretary of

Khulna District Khulna District ( bn, খুলনা জেলা , ''Khulna Jela'' also ''Khulna Zila'') is a district of Bangladesh. It is located in the Khulna Division. It is bordered on the north by the Jessore District and the Narail District, on the south ...

unit of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal was arrested by Bangladesh Army. Mokhlesur Rahman Bacchu, Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal politician, joined Awami League with 200 followers in 2015; he was facing charged of burning a police station in January 2014. The secretary, Shamsuzzaman Dudu, of the dal was arrested in April 2015. The Vice President of Krishak Dal

Khagrachhari District Khagrachari ( bn, খাগড়াছড়ি) is a district in the Chittagong Division of Southeastern Bangladesh. It is a part of the Chittagong Hill Tracts region. History The Chittagong Hill Tracts was under the reign of the Tripura St ...

unit, Nazrul Islam, was killed in December. In 2016, Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal convener from Jessore District, Kamrul Hasan Nasim, tried to create a splinter faction Bangladesh Nationalist Party called Ashol (real) BNP. In January, Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal organized an event protesting the filing of a sedition case against by former Prime Minister

Khaleda Zia Khaleda Zia (; born Khaleda Khanam Putul in 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996, and again from June 2001 to October 2006. She was the first female prime minister of Ba ...

. Bangladesh Nationalist Party formed the new convening committee, which has 153 members, of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal after a pause of 21 years with

as convener in February 2019. It organized protests demanding the release of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia. It dissolved the national committee and created a new one for Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal in 2021. There was some tensions over Hasan Jafir Tuhin bringing in supporters from Pabna during the conference using four buses. Hasan Jafir Tuhin was made the president and Shahidul Islam Babul was appointed the general secretary of Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal. A 231 member committee was created for the Dal. Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal leader Salah Uddin Khan filed a case against police officers and Awami League activists over the death of a Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal activist Shahidul Islam in September 2022.

References

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