Shramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal
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Shramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal (Workers Peasants Socialist Party), a small Marxist-Leninist
political party
in Bangladesh
. SKSD was formed in 1969 by sympathizers of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of India
in East Pakistan
.
The general secretary of the party is Nirmal Sen. The party publishes Samajbadi (The Socialist). SKSD maintains close relation to the Indian RSP.
SKSD is a member of the Left Democratic Front and the 11-party alliance. 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.
In the 2001 parliamentary elections Nirmal Sen was the sole SKSD candidate.
Marxism-Leninism
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political party
Political party
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in 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...
. SKSD was formed in 1969 by sympathizers of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of India
Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
Revolutionary Socialist Party is a Marxist-Leninist political party in India. The party was founded on March 19, 1940 and has its roots in the Bengali liberation movement Anushilan Samiti and the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army. The party got around 0,4% of the votes and three seats in the Lok...
in East Pakistan
East Pakistan
East Pakistan was a provincial state of Pakistan established in 14 August 1947. The provincial state existed until its declaration of independence on 26 March 1971 as the independent nation of Bangladesh. Pakistan recognized the new nation on 16 December 1971. East Pakistan was created from Bengal...
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The general secretary of the party is Nirmal Sen. The party publishes Samajbadi (The Socialist). SKSD maintains close relation to the Indian RSP.
SKSD is a member of the Left Democratic Front and the 11-party alliance. 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.
In the 2001 parliamentary elections Nirmal Sen was the sole SKSD candidate.