Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League


Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League was a political front comprising Bangladesh Awami League, Communist Party of Bangladesh, National Awami Party and Jatiyo League.
Following the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh, enacted on 25 January 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formed BaKSAL on 24 February. In addition, with the presidential order, all other political parties were outlawed with the formation of BaKSAL.
The party advocated state socialism as a part of the group of reforms under the theory of the Second Revolution. BaKSAL was the decision-making council to achieve the objectives of the Second Revolution.
BaKSAL was dissolved after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975. With the end of BaKSAL, all the political parties who had merged with BaKSAL, including the Awami League, again became independent political parties.

Background

and his Awami League won a landslide victory in the 1973 Bangladeshi general election. Backing for the government waned, however, as supporters became disillusioned by widespread corruption. In the face of growing unrest, on 28 December 1974 Mujibur declared a state of emergency, which gave him the power to ban any political group. He pushed the Fourth Amendment to the constitution through parliament on 25 January 1975. It dissolved all political parties and gave him the authority to institute one-party rule.

Formation

On 24 February 1975, Mujibur formed a new party, the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League, which all MPs were required to join. Any MP who missed a parliamentary session, abstained, or failed to vote with the party would lose their seat. All civilian government employees, professionals, and trade union leaders were pressed to join the party. All other political organisations were banned. Most Awami League politicians and many from other parties joined BaKSAL, seeing no other way to retain any political power. The Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal, Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party, Purbo Bangla Sammobadi Dal-Marxbadi-Leninbadi, East Pakistan Communist Party, and Bangladesh Communist Party did not join BaKSAL. According to political science professor Talukder Maniruzzaman, BaKSAL was in practice "the Awami League under a different name".
BaKSAL was scheduled to officially replace the nation's other political organisations, whether those political parties agreed or not, and associations, on 1 September 1975.
Organizationally, President Mujibur Rahman, BaKSAL chairman, appointed for the national party a fifteen-member executive committee, a 120-member central committee, and five front organisations, namely, Jatiya Krishak League, Jatiya Sramik League, Jatiya Mahila League, Jatiya Juba League and Jatiya Chhatra League. All members of the executive committee and central committee were to enjoy the status of ministers. BaKSAL was also designed to overhaul the administrative system of the country to make it people-oriented.

Executive Committee

  1. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
  2. Syed Nazrul Islam
  3. Muhammad Mansur Ali
  4. Abul Hasnat Muhammad Qamaruzzaman
  5. Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad
  6. Abdul Malek Ukil
  7. Professor M. Yousuf Ali
  8. Manaranjan Dhar
  9. Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury
  10. Sheikh Abdul Aziz
  11. Mohiuddin Ahmed
  12. Gazi Golam Mostafa
  13. Zillur Rahman
  14. Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani
  15. Abdur Razzaq

    Central Committee

  16. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
  17. Syed Nazrul Islam
  18. Muhammad Mansur Ali
  19. Abdul Malik Ukil
  20. Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad
  21. A.H.M Kamaruzzaman
  22. Kazi Linchon
  23. Mahmudullah
  24. Abdus Samad Azad
  25. M. Yousuf Ali
  26. Phani Bhushan Majumder
  27. Kamal Hossain
  28. Sohrab Husin
  29. Abdul Mannan
  30. Abdur Rab Serniabat
  31. Manaranjan Dhar
  32. Abdul Matin
  33. Asaduzzanan
  34. Md Korban Ali
  35. Dr. Azizul Rahman Mallik
  36. Dr. Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury
  37. Tofael Ahmed
  38. Shah Moazzam Hossain
  39. Abdul Momin Talukdar
  40. Dewan Farid Gazi
  41. Professor Nurul Islam Choudhry
  42. Taheruddin Thakur
  43. Moslemuddin Khan
  44. Professor Abu Sayeed
  45. MD Nurul Islam Manju
  46. KM Obaidur Rahman
  47. Dr. Khitish Chandra Mandal
  48. Reazuddin Ahmad
  49. M. Baitullah
  50. Rahul Quddus
  51. Zillur Rahman
  52. Mohiuddin Ahmad MP
  53. Sheikh Fazlul Haque Mani
  54. Abdur Razzaq
  55. Sheikh Shahidul Islam
  56. Anwar Choudhry
  57. Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury
  58. Taslima Abed
  59. Abdur Rahim
  60. Abdul Awal
  61. Lutfur Rahman
  62. A.K. Muzibur Rahman
  63. Dr. Mofiz Choudhry
  64. Dr. Allauddin
  65. Dr. Ahsanul Haq
  66. Raushan Ali
  67. Azizur Rahman Akkas
  68. Sheikh Abdul Aziz
  69. Salahuddin Yusuf
  70. Michael Sushil Adhikari
  71. Kazi Abdul Hakim
  72. Mollah Jalaluddin
  73. Shamsuddin Mollah
  74. Gour Chandra Bala
  75. Gazi Ghulam Mustafa
  76. Shamsul Haq
  77. Shamsuzzoha
  78. Rafiqueuddin Bhuiya
  79. Syed Ahmad
  80. Shamsur Rahman Khan Shahjahan
  81. Nurul Haq
  82. Kazi Zahirul Qayyum
  83. Capt. Sujjat Ali
  84. M.R. Siddiqui
  85. MA Wahab
  86. Chittaranjan Sutar,
  87. Sayeda Razia Banu
  88. Ataur Rahman Khan
  89. Khandakar Muhammad Illyas
  90. Mong Pru Saire
  91. Professor Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury
  92. Ataur Rahman
  93. Pir Habibur Rahman
  94. Syed Altaf Hossain
  95. Muhammad Farhad
  96. Matia Chowdhury
  97. Hazi Danesh
  98. Taufiq Inam
  99. Nurul Islam
  100. Fayezuddin Ahmed
  101. Mahbubur Rahman
  102. Abdul Khaleque
  103. Muzibul Haq
  104. Abdur Rahim
  105. Moinul Islam
  106. Sayeeduzzaman
  107. Anisuzzaman
  108. Dr. A. Sattar
  109. M.A Samad
  110. Abu Tahir
  111. Al Hossaini
  112. Dr Tajul Hossain
  113. Motiur Rahman. Chairman. TCB
  114. Maj. Gen K.M. Safiullah
  115. Air Vice Marshal Abdul Karim Khandker
  116. Commodore M.H. Khan
  117. Maj Gen. Khalilur Rahman
  118. A.K. Naziruddin Ahmed
  119. Dr. Abdul Matin Chowdhury
  120. Dr. Mazharul Islam
  121. Dr. Sramul Haq
  122. Badal Ghosh
  123. ATM Syed Hossain
  124. Nurul Islam
  125. Dr. Nilima Ibrahim
  126. Dr. Nurul Islam PG Hospital
  127. Obaidul Huq Editor Observer
  128. Anwar Hossain Manju Editor Ittefaq
  129. Mizanur Rahman BPI
  130. Manawarul Islam
  131. Abu Thaer Bhuiyan
  132. Brig. A. N. M. Nuruzzaman DG Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini
  133. Kamruzzaman teachers Association
  134. Dr. Mazhar Ali Kadri

    Activities

Many restrictive regulations coming from BaKSAL included the promulgation of the Newspaper Ordinance under which the declarations of all but four state owned newspapers were annulled. The Fourth Amendment was a direct attack on press freedom which allowed only the Dainik Bangla, Bangladesh Observer, The Daily Ittefaq, and Bangladesh Times to continue their publication and banned the rest of the press and newspaper industries. It brought the whole news media completely under the absolute control of the government.

Dissolution

The party contested in 1986 general election using "Boat" symbol and later in 1991 general election using "Bicycle" symbol.The party carried out independently until 1990s, when almost all of its party leaders deserted the organisation to merge with the Bangladesh Awami League.

Legacy

wrote in the Far Eastern Economic Review in 1974 that Bangladeshis thought that "the corruption and malpractices and plunder of national wealth" was "unprecedented".