Moni Singh

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

Life

After finishing primary school, Singh went to Calcutta to continue his education. In Calcutta in 1914 he joined 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 union for textile, port and jute workers. Singh achieved his first success in 1928 when he successfully led a 13-day strike by workers at Kesharam Cotton Mills in Calcutta. He was arrested in May 1930 and only 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 founding of Pakistan in 1947, Singh co-founded the Communist Party of East Pakistan in March 1948. From 1948 to 1971 he was a member of the Central Committee (ZK) of the Communist Party of East Pakistan and from 1951 to 1968 Secretary of the Central Committee. In 1968 he was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of East Pakistan. During the falling out 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 chairman of the party. He held this post until his death in 1990.

Singh spent a total of around 15 years of his life in prison because of his political activities. His autobiographical work Jiban Sangram was first published in 1983. An English translation was published in 1988 under the title Life is a Struggle .

Awards and honors

  • Independence Day Award ( Independence Day Award , the highest award of Bangladesh posthumously 2004).
  • The Comrade Moni Singh Street in Dhaka and the Comrade Moni Singh Bridge over the Shomewori River are named after him.

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personal data
SURNAME Singh, Moni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bangladeshi politician (communist)
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Susang-Durgapur , Mymensingh District
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1990
Place of death Dhaka