Abdul Kader Siddique,[a] commonly known as Bangabir,is a Bangladeshi politician. He served as a Mukti Bahini commander,and organizer of the Bangladesh War of Independence. He fought with an estimated 17,000-strong guerrilla force in the Tangail region against the Pakistan Army.[2] The army was called Kaderia Bahini (Kader's Army).[3][4][5] At the end of the war in 1971,Siddique's forces entered Dhaka along with the Indian forces,signaling the end of the war.[6] He was awarded Bir Uttom by the Government of Bangladesh. Since 1999,he has been serving as the leader of his newly formed party,the Krishak Sramik Janata League.[7]
During the Bangladesh war of independence,he formed the Kaderia Bahini to fight against the Pakistan military. The Kaderia Bahini,as it is said,had approximately 17 thousand personnel. He was loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.[8]
After the Independence of Bangladesh,Siddique went back to his hometown of Tangail where he enjoyed considerable patronage from the Awami League,the party of Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman.[9]
After the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975,Siddiqui and his followers organised attacks on the authorities of Khondakar Mushtaque's government. Elements loyal to Siddiqui operated from bases in Assam province in India and were actively supported by India's Border Security Force.[9] In the insurgency against the military government of Bangladesh,104 rebels were killed and more than 500 were injured. The insurgency lasted more than two years.[10] He was tried by a military court on 24 July 1978,and sentenced to 7 years in jail. He was accused of killing a major and a number of soldiers of Bangladesh Army after the Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman following the 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état.[11] On 6 December 1990,he returned to Bangladesh from self imposed exile in India.[citation needed]
Siddique was elected member of the parliament of Bangladesh from different constituencies of Tangail.
In 1996,Siddique was elected to Parliament as a Bangladesh Awami League candidate from Tangail-8.[12] In 1999,Siddique quit Awami League. He then resigned from the parliament and formed his own party the Krishak Sramik Janata League.[7] This triggered a by-election,which he lost to the Bangladesh Awami League candidate,Shawakat Momen Shahjahan. Siddique was elected to parliament from Tangail 8 in the 2001 Bangladesh General Election as a candidate of the Krishak Sramik Janata League.[12] On 17 October 2006,his rally was attacked by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists,leaving 11 injured in Jamalpur District.[13]
In 2017,Bangladesh High Court disqualified Siddique from contesting a by-election from Tangail-4 because he had defaulted on a loan. He tried to contest the 2018 Bangladesh General Election from Tangail-4 and Tangail-8 but his candidacy was rejected by the Bangladesh Election Commission.[14] He,along with his party,joined the Jatiya Oikyafront to contest the election against the Bangladesh Awami League alliance.[15][16] His daughter,Kuri Siddique,also applied for nomination from Tangail-8 in case his candidacy was rejected.[17] The Election Commission rejected the appeal filed by Siddique,challenging the cancellation of his nomination on 8 December.[18]
1 2 Lifschultz, Lawrence (1979). Bangladesh: The Unfinished Revolution. Zed Press. p.64. ISBN0-905762-07-X. Kader Siddiqui appalled both Bengalis and foreigners when, in public, shortly after the liberation of Dacca, he personally bayoneted three alleged collaborators to death. The entire incident was filmed from start to finish by foreign film crews whom he had invited to the spectacle. He returned to Tangail after independence and became the recipient of substantial Awami League patronage. Following the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975, Siddiqui and his followers began to offer resistance to the post-coup authorities headed by Khondakar Mustaque. Elements identifying themselves with Siddiqui gradually withdrew to India and, with the active and direct assistance of the Indian Government's Border Security Force, set up training camps in the Assam border area.
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