Shramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal

Shramik Krishak Samajbadi Dal (Workers Peasants Socialist Party), a small Marxist-Leninist political party in Bangladesh. SKSD was formed in 1969 by sympathizers of the Revolutionary Socialist Party of India in East Pakistan.

The general secretary of the party is Nirmal Sen. The party publishes Samajbadi (The Socialist). SKSD maintains close relation to the Indian RSP.

SKSD is a member of the Left Democratic Front and the 11-party alliance. SKSD is currently (2005) the coordinator of LDF.

The student wing of SKSD is the Samajbadi Chhatra Jote and the agricultural labour wing is the Khet Majdur Sabha.

In the 2001 parliamentary elections Nirmal Sen was the sole SKSD candidate.

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