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Abdur Rezzak Khan


Office Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly








Predecessor H. N. Mazumdar
Successor Molla Tasmatulla


Constituency Hasnabad
Born June 1900
Born Hakimpur, 24 parganas, Bengal Presidency, British India
Died Template:Death date and age




Political party Communist Party of India; Communist Party of India (Marxist)






Abdur Rezzak Khan (June 1900 – 28 January 1984) Bengali anti-British freedom fighter, communist revolutionary and politician. He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1969.

Background

He was born in June 1900 at Hakimpur, 24 parganas of Bengal Presidency, British India.

Political movement

During the Chittagong armoury raid led by Masterda Surya Sen, he secretly supplied arms. Santosh Kumar Mitra, a revolutionary martyr, was one of his companions.[1] In 1922, he came in contact with Muzaffar Ahmed and Abdul Halim.[2][3] He was one of the founding member of the Workers and Peasants Party. He led a first time large-scale general strike of jute workers with Abdul Momin and others in 1929.[4]

References

  1. Sangsad Bangali Sangsad Charitabhidhan{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. সাহিত্য সংসদ(2002)
  2. Leftism in India, 1917–1947. SAGE Publications Inc(2022-06-03). Retrieved 2022-06-09.
  3. Communism and Nationalism in India: A Study in Inter-relationship, 1919–1947{{#if:Bairathi|, Bairathi}. Anamika Prakashan(1987). ISBN 978-81-85150-00-0
  4. 1929 – First general strike of jute workers. Communist Party of India (Marxist)(2015-06-25). Retrieved 2022-06-09.