Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Krishak Dal () is the farmers wing of

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History

Former

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and founding chairman of BNP

Ziaur Rahman Ziaur Rahman (19 January 193630 May 1981) was a Bangladeshi military officer and politician who served as the sixth president of Bangladesh from 1977 until Assassination of Ziaur Rahman, his assassination in 1981. One of the leading figures of t ...

established Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Krishak Dal on 30 December 1980. The first convening committee was led by

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Justice. In 1992, Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan and

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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

as general secretary. But they joined

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and Mojibur Rahman was appointed the president. After Rahman's death,

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, was appointed president, who is currently serving as the

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of the party. Krishak Dal held its biennial conference in October 2003 in

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. The conference was attended by the president of Krishak Dal, Mojibur Rahman,

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, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, and Shahrin Islam Tuhin. They criticised Awami League and called former President

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an emigrant from

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and not a "son of the soil". During the 1/11 crisis, in 2007, The president and organizing secretary of

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unit of Krishak Dal was arrested by the

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. 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

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unit, Nazrul Islam, was killed in December. In 2016, Krishak Dal convener from

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, Kamrul Hasan Nasim, tried to create a splinter faction of BNP called Ashol BNP (). In January, Krishak Dal organized an event protesting the filing of a sedition case against former prime minister

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. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party formed the new convening committee, which has 153 members, of Krishak Dal after a pause of 21 years with

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.

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