Sramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal (Workers Peasants Socialist Party) is a Marxist-Leninist

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

. The SKSD was formed in 1969 by sympathizers of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of India in

East Pakistan East Pakistan was a Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which, in modern times, is split between India and Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Myanmar, wi ...

. In April 1983, the SKSD joined the 15-party alliance, which included the Awami League, to oppose the Ershad regime. When the alliance split over the question of whether to participate in the 1986 general election, the SKSD remained allied with four other left-leaning parties that pledged to boycott any elections held under Ershad. In 1994, the SKSD joined eight other left-wing parties to form the

Left Democratic Front The Left Democratic Front (LDF) is an alliance of left-wing political parties in the state of Kerala, India. It is the current ruling political alliance of Kerala, since 2016. It is one of the two major political alliances in Kerala, the oth ...

, which formed the core of the 11-party alliance in 1996. The alliance contested the June 1996 and 2001 general elections, but failed to win any seat. In the 2001 parliamentary elections,

Nirmal Sen Nirmal Sen (August 3, 1930 – January 8, 2013) was a Bangladeshi journalist and politician. Early life Sen was born on 3 August 1930 in Dighirpar village, Kotalipara Upazila, Gopalganj District, Bangladesh, Gopalganj District, East Bengali, Brit ...

was the sole SKSD candidate. The 11-party alliance disintegrated in 2005. The general secretary of the party is Nirmal Sen. The party publishes ''Samajbadi'' (''The Socialist''). SKSD is currently (2005) the coordinator of LDF. The student wing of SKSD is the Samajbadi Chhatra Jote and the agricultural labour wing is the Khet Majdur Sabha.

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