Bangladeshi political party
The
Workers Party of Bangladesh
(
Bengali
:
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) is a
communist party
in
Bangladesh
.
Rashed Khan Menon
is the president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh and
Anisur Rahman Mollik
is the general secretary of the party.
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[3]
History
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WPB was founded in 1980 by the
Bangladesh Communist Party (Leninist)
,
Revolutionary Communist League
,
Majdur Party
and another group.
Amal Sen
was the founding general secretary.
In 1984 the party split in two factions, both using the name WPB. One group was led by Amal Sen and Nazrul Islam. The other was led by the current president of the party, Rashed Khan Menon. In 1992 they reunited.
The party participated in the programs of the
National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports
in 2006.
[4]
In November 2008, the Workers Party protested the removal of a
baul
statue by the
Roads and Highways Department
, and
Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh
following pressure from Islamists near the
Zia International Airport
.
[5]
In 2010, the
Haider Akbar Khan Rono
led fraction of the
Workers Party of Bangladesh (reconstituted)
merged with the
Communist Party of Bangladesh
.
[6]
WPB joined the
Grand Alliance
in 2014,
[7]
but the party leadership openly questioned the direction of the subsequent
14 Party Alliance
after the
2014 election
.
[8]
Rashed Khan Menon was made the
Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism
in the Sheikh Hasina led cabinet.
[9]
On 26 May 2016, Workers Party of Bangladesh called for the parliamentary membership of Salim Osman to be cancelled for insulting Shyamal Kanti Bhakta, the principal of Piyar Sattar Latif High School.
[10]
In the 2018 Bangladesh elections, it contested as part of the
Grand Alliance
along with the Bangladesh Awami League. Five candidates of the Workers Party used the election symbol of the Awami League, the boat.
[11]
The candidates were
Fazle Hossain Badsha
from
Rajshahi-2
,
Mustafa Lutfullah
from
Satkhira-1
,
Rashed Khan Menon
from
Dhaka-8
,
Tipu Sultan
from
Barisal-3
, and
Yeasin Ali
from
Thakurgaon-3
.
[11]
Three candidates of the party contested using the hammer symbol of the workers party.
[11]
They were
Ahsan Ullah
from
Comilla-8
,
Haji Bashirul Alam
from
Cox's Bazar-1
, and
Jahirul Haque Tutul
from
Barisal-2
.
[11]
The Workers Party won four seats in the
Jatiya Sangsad
in the
2018 Bangladeshi general election
. Lutfun Nesa Khan was elected from the reserved women's seat from the Workers Party.
[12]
The winners were
Fazle Hossain Badsha
from Rajshahi-2, Mustafa Lutfullah from Satkhira-1, and Rashed Khan Menon from Dhaka-8.
[13]
The Awami League did not include them in the new cabinet which only had Awami League politicians.
[9]
In February 2021, the Workers Party criticised Awami League for election policy and for not taking a hardline against religion based political parties.
[14]
In December the party asked the government to send former Prime Minister
Khaleda Zia
abroad for medical treatment.
[15]
Election results
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Jatiya Sangsad elections
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Election
|
Party leader
|
Votes
|
%
|
Seats
|
+/?
|
Position
|
Government
|
1986
|
Amal Sen
|
151,828
|
0.53%
|
|
New
|
11th
|
Opposition
|
1988
|
Boycotted
|
|
3
|
?
|
Extra-parliamentary
|
1991
|
63,434
|
0.19%
|
|
1
|
20th
|
Opposition
|
Feb 1996
|
Boycotted
|
|
1
|
?
|
Extra-parliamentary
|
Jun 1996
|
56,404
|
0.13%
|
|
0
|
8th
|
Extra-parliamentary
|
2001
|
Rashed Khan Menon
|
40,484
|
0.07%
|
|
0
|
11th
|
Extra-parliamentary
|
2008
|
262,093
|
0.37%
|
|
2
|
7th
|
Coalition Government
|
2014
|
359,620
|
2.10%
|
|
4
|
3rd
|
Coalition Government
|
2018
|
646,064
|
0.76%
|
|
2
|
5th
|
Coalition Government
|
2024
|
xxxxxx
|
xx.xx%
|
|
3
|
5th
|
Coalition Government
|
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