National Awami Party (Bhashani) is a left wing political party in Bangladesh.
History
National Awami Party (Bhashani) was established on 30 November 1967 when
National Awami Party
The National Awami Party (NAP), translated from Urdu to English as National People's Party, was the major left-wing political party in East and West Pakistan. It was founded in 1957 in Dhaka, erstwhile East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), by A ...
split into two different fractions. The pro-Moscow fraction was
National Awami Party (Wali)
The Wali Khan faction of the National Awami PartyThe National Awami Party of Pakistan: Leftist Politics in Crisis M. Rashiduzzaman Pacific Affairs, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Autumn, 1970), pp. 394-409 Published by: Pacific Affairs, University of British ...
, led by
Khan Abdul Wali Khan
Khan Abdul Wali Khan ( ps, خان عبدالولي خان; 11 January 1917 – 26 January 2006) was a Pakistani secular democratic socialist and Pashtun leader, and served as president of Awami National Party. Son of the prominent Pashtun nat ...
, and the pro-Beijing was called National Awami Party (Bhashani), led by
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (12 December 1880 – 17 November 1976), often shortened as Maulana Bhashani, was a Bengali politician. His political tenure spanned the British colonial India, Pakistan and Bangladesh periods.
Maulana Bhashani was pop ...
. On 17 November 1974, two leaders of the party,
Kazi Zafar Ahmed
Kazi Zafar Ahmad (; 1 July 193927 August 2015) was a Bangladeshi politician of the Jatiya Party, who was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1989 to 1990.
Early life
Ahmed was born in 1939, in village: Kazi Bari Cheora Chauddagram Upazila, C ...
and
Rashed Khan Menon
Rashed Khan Menon (born 18 May 1943) is a Bangladeshi politician. He is the president of Workers Party of Bangladesh and was elected as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dhaka-8 in the 2008 general election. Menon was re-elected at the 2014 gen ...
, formed a new political party called
United People's Party. Following this split, Bhashani resigned from post of Party President.
See also
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National Awami Party (Muzaffar)
The Bangladesh National Awami Party, or National Awami Party (Muzaffar), is a left wing political party in Bangladesh.
History
National Awami Party (Muzaffar) traces its origin to a split of the National Awami Party into two factions, one pro-Chin ...
or Bangladesh National Awami Party, successor of the Wali faction
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, successor of the Bhashani faction
References
1967 establishments in East Pakistan
Political parties established in 1967
Political parties in Bangladesh
Socialist parties in Bangladesh
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