Moni Singh

Moni Singh ( born July 19, 1900 in Susang - Durgapur, district Mymensingh, † December 31, 1990 in Dhaka ) was a communist politician in East Pakistan and Bangladesh. He was from 1973 to 1990 Chairman of the Communist Party of Bangladesh.

Life

After completing his primary education Singh went to Calcutta to continue his education. In Calcutta, he joined in 1914 Anushilan Dal, an armed revolutionary group. A decade later, he became a member of the Communist Party of India. Singh was one of the organizers of the trade union movement in Calcutta. In the late 1920s he co-founded a trade union of textile, port and jute workers. Singh achieved his first success in 1928 when he led a 13- day strike of workers of Kesharam Cotton Mills in Calcutta successful. In May 1930 he was arrested and released from prison in November 1937. After his release, he went back to Susang - Durgapur. In the late 1930s and 1940s he was one of the organizers of the peasant movement ( Tanka Movement) in East Bengal.

After the creation of Pakistan in 1947 Singh was co-founder in 1948 of the Communist Party of East Pakistan in March. From 1948 to 1971 he was a member of the Central Committee ( CC) of the Communist Party of East Pakistan and 1951-1968 Secretary of the Central Committee. He was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of East Pakistan in 1968. During the rift between the Soviet Union and the People 's Republic of China in the 1960s Singh supported the Soviet position. After the independence of Bangladesh Singh was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bangladesh, at the Second Congress of the Communist Party of Bangladesh in 1973, he was elected as Chairman of the party. He held until his death in 1990, a post.

Singh spent because of his political activities, a total of about 15 years of his life in prison. His autobiography Jiban Sangram first published in 1983. An English translation appeared in 1988 under the title Life is a Struggle.

Awards and honors

  • Independence Day Award ( Independence Day Award, the highest award in Bangladesh, posthumously 2004).
  • According to him, the Comrade Moni Singh Street in Dhaka and the Comrade Moni Singh Bridge named over the river Shomewori.
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