National Awami Party

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The National Awami Party is a leftist political party in Bangladesh. The party was founded in Dhaka in erstwhile East Pakistan in July 1957 through the merger of the Ganatantri Dal and the National Party of Pakistan.

1 Political ideology
2 Constituent parties
3 Party Split
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Political ideology

The NAP was along with the Awami League expected to easily win the 1959 planned general elections. It's primary target was the disbanding of the One Unit scheme in West Pakistan and a fair deal for the increasingly discontented people of East Pakistan.

After Ayub Khan took over the NAP faced a harsh crackdown from the Pro US Ayub Khan government. The NAP was regarded by some as a front organization of the Communist Party of Pakistan, Hasan Nasir, the NAP Office Secretary, a card-carrying member of the Communist Party, was tortured to death in custody.

Mirza Mehdy Ispahani (a.k.a) Sadri Ispahani was the treasurer of National Awami Party.

[edit] Constituent parties

The constituent parties and their areas of influence were:

Azad Pakistan Party a Punjab-based party led by Mian Iftikharuddin and Mahmud Ali Kasuri.

Sindh Mahaz led by G. M. Syed and Sheikh Abdul Majid Sindhi.

Sindh Hari Committee led by Haider Bakhsh Jatoi.

Wrore Pukhtun (Pukhtun Brotherhood) a Balochistan-based party led by Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai and Hashim Khan Ghilzai.

Usthman Gul (Awam Jamaat) of Balochistan led by Mir Ghaus Bakhsh Bizenjo and Shahzada Abdul Karim Khan of Kalat.

Khudai Khidmatgar from NWFP led by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.

Ganatantri Dal an East Bengali party led by Mahmud Ali of Sylhet.

The party President was Maulana Bhashani and the Secretary General Mahmudul Huq Osmani.

[edit] Party Split

After a growing rift developed over, allegedly, Maulana Bhashani told his supporters to support Ayub Khan in the 1964 elections against Fatima Jinnah. In return he was supposed to have received payoffs and favours, a fact which he never contradicted. After the council session of the party held at Rangpur on 30 November 1967, NAP split into two factions branding themselves as pro-Chinese and pro-Moscow groups. In 1967 NAP formally split into National Awami Party (Bhashani) and National Awami Party (Wali).