Abdur Rezzak Khan Explained

Abdur Rezzak Khan
Native Name:	আবদুর রেজ্জাক খান
Native Name Lang:	bn
Nationality:	Indian
Party:	Communist Party of India Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Office1:	Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Constituency1:	Hasnabad
Term Start1:	1969
Predecessor1:	H. N. Mazumdar
Term End1:	1971
Successor1:	Molla Tasmatulla
Birth Date:	June 1900

Abdur Rezzak Khan (1900–1984) Bengali anti-British freedom fighter, communist revolutionary and politician. He was a member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1969.

Background

He was born in June 1900 at Hakimpur, 24 parganas of Bengal Presidency, British India.

Political movement

During the Chittagong armoury raid led by Masterda Surya Sen, he secretly supplied arms. Santosh Kumar Mitra, a revolutionary martyr, was one of his companions.^[1] In 1922, he came in contact with Muzaffar Ahmed and Abdul Halim.^{[2] [3]} He was one of the founding member of the Workers and Peasants Party. He led a first time large-scale general strike of jute workers with Abdul Momin and others in 1929.^[4]

References

1. Book: Sangsad Bangali Sangsad Charitabhidhan . Subodh Chandra Sengupta . Anjali Basu . 1. সাহিত্য সংসদ . 2002 . 46.
2. Web site: 2022-06-03 . Leftism in India, 1917–1947 . 2022-06-09 . SAGE Publications Inc . en.
3. Book: Bairathi, Shashi . Communism and Nationalism in India: A Study in Inter-relationship, 1919–1947 . 1987 . Anamika Prakashan . 978-81-85150-00-0 . en.
4. Web site: 2015-06-25 . 1929 – First general strike of jute workers . 2022-06-09 . Communist Party of India (Marxist) . en.