The Jatiya Ganamukti Union (National People's Liberation Union) was a Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

i political party created in 1973 by veteran communist

Communism

Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

 leader Haji Mohammad Danesh

Haji Mohammad Danesh

Haji Mohammad Danesh was a Bangladeshi politician and communist activist.-Early life:Haji Mohammad Danesh was born to a Bengali Muslim peasant family in the village of Sultanpur in the Dinajpur district of what was then the Bengal Presidency of British India, and now a part of Bangladesh...

, who had been a major activist in the Tebhaga movement

Tebhaga movement

The Tebhaga movement was a militant campaign initiated in Bengal by the Kisan Sabha in 1946. At that time share-cropping peasants had to give half of their harvest to the owners of the land...

. It was merged by Danesh into the ruling Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BAKSAL) in 1975, after the government of president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was a Bengali nationalist politician and the founder of Bangladesh. He headed the Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh and later became its Prime Minister. He headed the Awami League, served as the first President of Bangladesh and later became its...

 outlawed all other parties. After the downfall of the Mujib regime, the JGU was revived by Danesh until 1980, when he left it to form the Ganatantrik Party

Ganatantrik Party

The Ganatantrik Party was a Bangladeshi political party formed in 1980 by the veteran communist leader Haji Mohammad Danesh, a leader of the Tebhaga movement. Shortly before Danesh's death in 1986, the party merged into the ruling Jatiya Party of the then-Bangladeshi President Gen. Hussain...

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