Abdur Rezzak Khan
Abdur Rezzak Khan | |
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আবদুর রেজ্জাক খান | |
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| Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1969–1971 | |
| Preceded by | H. N. Mazumdar |
| Succeeded by | Molla Tasmatulla |
| Constituency | Hasnabad |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 1900 Hakimpur, 24 parganas, Bengal Presidency, British India |
| Died | 28 January 1984 (aged 83) |
| Political party | Communist Party of India; Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Abdur Rezzak Khan (1900–1984) Bengali anti-British freedom fighter, communist revolutionary and politician. He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1969.
Background
[edit]He was born in June 1900 at Hakimpur, 24 parganas of Bengal Presidency, British India.
Political movement
[edit]During the Chittagong armoury raid led by Masterda Surya Sen, he secretly supplied arms. Santosh Kumar Mitra, a revolutionary martyr, was one of his companions.[1] In 1922, he came in contact with Muzaffar Ahmed and Abdul Halim.[2][3] He was one of the founding member of the Workers and Peasants Party. He led a first time large-scale general strike of jute workers with Abdul Momin and others in 1929.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Subodh Chandra Sengupta; Anjali Basu, eds. (2002). Sangsad Bangali Sangsad Charitabhidhan. Vol. 1. সাহিত্য সংসদ. p. 46.
- ^ "Leftism in India, 1917–1947". SAGE Publications Inc. 3 June 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ^ Bairathi, Shashi (1987). Communism and Nationalism in India: A Study in Inter-relationship, 1919–1947. Anamika Prakashan. ISBN 978-81-85150-00-0.
- ^ "1929 – First general strike of jute workers". Communist Party of India (Marxist). 25 June 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2022.