Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League
The Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BaKSAL) (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ কৃষক শ্রমিক আওয়ামী লীগ, English: Bangladesh Worker-Peasant's People's League; বাকশাল) was a political front and dictatorship comprising the Bangladesh Awami League, the Communist Party of Bangladesh, the National Awami Party (Muzaffar) and Bangladesh Jatiya League.
Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League বাংলাদেশ কৃষক শ্রমিক আওয়ামী লীগ Bangladesh Peasants' Workers' People's League | |
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| Leader | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman |
| Founder | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman |
| Founded | 24 February 1975 |
| Dissolved | 15 August 1975 |
| Merger of | AL CPB BNAP BJL |
| Headquarters | Dhaka |
| Ideology | Mujibism Bengali nationalism Socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
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Following the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh, enacted on 25 January 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formed BaKSAL on 24 February. A presidential order also outlawed all political parties other than BaKSAL, creating a state of emergency and obligating other parties to join the front.
The party advocated for democratic socialism as a part of reforms under the theory of the Second Revolution, which BaKSAL worked to achieve the objectives of.
BaKSAL was dissolved after the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975. As a result, all the political parties that merged with BaKSAL became independent again.