Amal Sen was a Bangladeshi politician. He was the founding president of the Workers Party of Bangladesh.
Sen was born in Afra village, Narail on July 19, 1914.[1] His family were zamindars.[1] The ancestral home of his family was located at Bakri village, Bagherpara Upazila, Jessore District.[1] Sen graduated in chemistry from Brajalal College in Khulna.[2]
In 1933, after having graduated from college, he became a member of the Communist Party of India.[2] [3] He took part in the struggle against British rule over India.[2] Sen was the leader of Tebhaga movement in Narail.[1] [4]
Sen became a leader of the East Pakistan Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist).[5] Sen led a split from the EPCP(M-L) in 1971.[6] Sen was a resistance organizer during the Bangladesh Liberation War.[3] The EPCP(M-L) led by Sen and Nazrul Islam was one of the groups participating in the Coordination Committee of the Bangladesh Liberation Struggle set up in Calcutta.[5] [7] The Sen-Nazrul Islam faction set up the Bangladesh Communist Solidarity Committee.[5] [7] In 1972 he became the general secretary of the Bangladesh Communist Party (Leninist), a new open party into which the Amal Sen-Nazrul Islam-led EPCP(M-L) had merged.[5] [8] He became the general secretary of the United Communist League in 1986.[8] Between 1992 and 2000 he served as president of the re-united Workers Party of Bangladesh, after 2000 he remained a member of the Central Committee of the party.[8]
Sen spent a total of 19 years in prison, linked to his political activism.[9] Sen died at Dhaka Community Hospital on January 17, 2003.[1] [9] [10]