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The Minority United Front was an electoral alliance formed ahead of the
1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election Legislative elections were held in East Bengal between 8 and 12 March 1954, the first since Pakistan became an independent country in 1947. The opposition United Front led by the All-Pakistan Awami League and Krishak Sramik Party won a landslide ...
. It consisted of the Pakistan Gana Samiti, the
Pakistan Socialist Party The Pakistan Socialist Party was a political party in Pakistan. It was formed out of the branches of the Indian Socialist Party in the areas ceded to the new state of Pakistan. The PSP failed to make any political breakthrough in Pakistani polit ...
and the
Abhay Ashram Abhay Ashram () is a social welfare organization founded by Dr. Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, Dr. Suresh Bandyopadhyay, Haripada Chattopadhyay and Dr. Nripen Basu in 1910 in Comilla in the then Eastern Bengal and Assam, in present-day Bangladesh. Initi ...
.DR. KAUSAR PARVEEN, DR. SAMINA AWAN.
ROLE OF PAKISTAN NATIONAL CONGRESS IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN PAKISTAN, 1947-1958
'. J.P.H.S., Vol. LXX, No. 2
Najma Chowdhury.
The Legislative Process in Bangladesh: Politics and Functioning of the East Bengal Legislature, 1947-58
'. University of Dacca, 1980. pp. 121, 164, 208
M.B. Nair.
Politics in Bangladesh (A Study of Awami League : 1949-58)
'. Northern Book Centre, New Delhi, 1990. p. 163
The Minority United Front contested 19 seats, in both the Caste Hindu and Scheduled Caste constituencies. There had been talks on electoral arrangement between the Minority United Front and PNC, but that did not materialize in any pre-poll pact and the two groups were the main competitors for the Caste Hindu seats. There were also attempts to form an alliance between the Minority United Front and the
Rasaraj Mandal Rasaraj Mandal was a Member of the 2nd National Assembly of Pakistan as a representative of East Pakistan East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and ...
-led faction of the
East Bengal Scheduled Castes Federation The East Bengal Scheduled Castes Federation (), later the East Pakistan Scheduled Castes Federation (), was a political party in Pakistan. In the first years after the independence of Pakistan, the party was one of the two main political parties of ...
, but in the end the Mandal-led group contested on their own.Muhammad Ghulam Kabir.
Minority Politics in Bangladesh
'. Vikas, 1980. p. 17-18, 43, 87
The Minority United Front won 10 seats in the Assembly. Out of the three Pakistan Socialist Party candidates that had been fielded by the Minority Unity Front as candidates, all were elected -
Trailokyanath Chakravarty Trailokyanath Chakraborty (2 August 1889 – 9 August 1970) was a British Indian independence activist and later East Pakistani politician. He led and worked with other freedom fighters. He lived for 80 years, spending 30 years in jail. Some ...
, Pulin De and Deben Ghosh.Khursheed Kamal Aziz.
Party Politics in Pakistan, 1947-1958
'. Sang-E-Meel Publications, 2007. p. 118


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