The Ganatantrik Party (Democratic Party) was a Bangladeshi political party formed in 1980 by the veteran

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leader

Haji Mohammad Danesh Hajee Mohammad Danesh (1900 – 28 June 1986) was a Bangladeshi politician and communist activist born in the British India. Early life Hajee Mohammad Danesh was born to a Bengali Muslim peasant family in the village of Sultanpur in the Dinajpu ...

, a leader of the

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. Shortly before Danesh's death in 1986, the party merged into the ruling Jatiya Party of the then- Bangladeshi President Gen.

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