The Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal faction led by Mubinul Haider Chowdhuy on Friday announced a convention preparatory committee to hold a national convention in six months.
The committee with Mubinul as the convenor was announced by the party’s central committee member Shubhrangshu Chakrabarty at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters Unity.
Mubinul and Shubhrangshu, two members of the six-member central committee of the party, held the press conference demonstrating the formal division of the Bangladesher Samajtantrik Dal led by Khalequzzaman.
The six-member central committee was divided on the question of the party’s ideology.
One of the groups wanted to pursue the doctrines of Karl Marx and VI Lenin while the other was determined to follow through the ideology of Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) founding general secretary Shibdas Ghosh, party sources said.
The new faction considers Shibdash as the authority of the international communist movement and will lead the party according to his ideals, Mubinul said.
‘Most of the district committees and two-thirds of the leader of the student and women fronts of the party joined us,’ Mubinul said.
The group held a two-day meeting of the district leaders of the party in the capital which ended on Friday.
The splitting of the party became certain at a central committee meeting held on Sunday, when Mubinul and Shubhrangshu, party insiders said.
The ideological differences surfaced first at a central committee meeting in February 18-20, where Mubinul and Shubhrangshu alleged the party had deviated from the political ideology of Shibdas based on which it was founded in 1980.
Mubinul also demanded that the party should recognise Shibdas as an authority of international communism, the sources said.
Party general secretary Khalequzzaman and central committee members Bazlur Rashid Firoz, Zahedul Haque Milu, and Razequzzaman Ratan, on the other hand, argued that the party was founded on the basis of Marxism and Leninism as well as the thoughts of Shibdas.
They were in favour of maintaining the party’s ideological status quo.
Earlier in 2010, the BSD suffered another ideological rift that resulted in two of its central leaders, Abdullah Sarker and Saifur Rahman Tapan, quitting the organisation. (Source)
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