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Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Krishak Dal (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয়তাবাদী কৃষক দল, lit. 'Bangladesh Nationalist Peasants Party') is the farmers wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party.




History


Former Bangladeshi President and founding chairman of BNP Ziaur Rahman established Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Krishak Dal on 30 December 1980. The first convening committee was led by Abdus Sattar Justice.
In 1992, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and Shamsuzzaman Dudu were appointed the president and general secretary of Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Krishak Dal.
On 16 May 1998, Krishak Dal committee was formed with Mahbubul Alam Tara as president and Shamsuzzaman Dudu as general secretary. But they joined Awami League and Mojibur Rahman was appointed the president. After Rahman's death, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, was appointed president, who is currently serving as the general secretary of the party.
Krishak Dal held its biennial conference in October 2003 in Nilphamari District. The conference was attended by the president of Krishak Dal, Mojibur Rahman, Asadul Habib Dulu, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, and Shahrin Islam Tuhin. They criticised Awami League and called former President Hussain Muhammad Ershad an emigrant from India and not a "son of the soil".
During the 1/11 crisis, in 2007, The president and organizing secretary of Khulna District unit of Krishak Dal was arrested by the Army.
Mokhlesur Rahman Bacchu, Krishak Dal politician, joined Awami League with 200 followers in 2015; he was facing charged of burning a police station in January 2014. The secretary, Shamsuzzaman Dudu, of Krishak Dal was arrested in April 2015. The vice president of Krishak Dal Khagrachhari District unit, Nazrul Islam, was killed in December.
In 2016, Krishak Dal convener from Jessore District, Kamrul Hasan Nasim, tried to create a splinter faction of BNP called Ashol BNP (lit. 'Real BNP'). In January, Krishak Dal organized an event protesting the filing of a sedition case against by former prime minister Khaleda Zia.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party formed the new convening committee, which has 153 members, of Krishak Dal after a pause of 21 years with Shamsuzzaman Dudu as convener in February 2019. It organized protests demanding the release of chairperson Khaleda Zia. It dissolved the national committee and created a new one for Krishak Dal in 2021. There was some tensions over Hasan Jafir Tuhin bringing in supporters from Pabna during the conference using four buses. Hasan Jafir Tuhin was made the president and Shahidul Islam Babul was appointed the general secretary of Krishak Dal. A 231 member committee was created for Krishak Dal.
Krishak Dal leader Salah Uddin Khan filed a case against police officers and Awami League activists over the death of a Jubodal activist Shahidul Islam in September 2022.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Krishak Dal
• Bangladesh Nationalist Party
• List of political parties in Bangladesh
• Student–People's uprising
• List of Bangladeshi flags