Births
Published: 01:17 AM, 28 June 2018
Moni Singh
Moni Singh was a preeminent Bengali Communist politician popularly known as Comrade Moni Singh. He was the founder of the Communist Party of East Pakistan. Singh operated a guerrilla wing of the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 and was an advisor to the Provisional Government of Bangladesh.
Prior to the partition of India in August 1947, Singh was a successful workers' leader who led movements to abolish exploitative labor practices. He was first elected CP head in 1951, when Bangladesh was part of Pakistan, and led it with one short interruption until his death. He was born on 28 July 1901 in Durgapur Upazila, Netrokona.
