The Jatiya Ganamukti Union (National People's Liberation Union) was a Bangladeshi political party created in 1973 by veteran

communist Communism () is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, di ...

leader

Haji Mohammad Danesh Hajee Mohammad Danesh (1900 – 28 June 1986) was a Bangladeshi politician and communist activist born in British India. Early life Hajee Mohammad Danesh was born to a Bengali Muslim peasant family in the village of Sultanpur in the Dinajpur d ...

, who had been a major activist in the

Tebhaga movement The Tebhaga movement (1946–1947) was significant peasant agitation, initiated in Bengal by the All India Kisan Sabha of peasant front of the Communist Party of India. History At that time, landlords required tenant farmers and sharecroppe ...

. It was merged by Danesh into the ruling

Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League The Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (), abbreviated as BaKSAL, was the sole legal ruling party of Bangladesh from January to August 1975. The party comprised politicians from the Awami League, the Communist Party of Bangladesh, the Na ...

(BAKSAL) in 1975, after the government of president

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), also known by the honorific Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman and activist who was the founding president of Bangladesh. As the leader of Bangl ...

outlawed all other parties. After the downfall of the Mujib regime, the JGU was revived by Danesh until 1980, when he left it to form the

Ganatantrik Party The Ganatantrik Party (Democratic Party) was a Bangladeshi political party formed in 1980 by the veteran communist leader Haji Mohammad Danesh, a leader of the Tebhaga movement. Shortly before Danesh's death in 1986, the party merged into the ruli ...

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