Mirza Ibrahim

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Mirza Ibrahim
مرزا ابراہیم
Personal details
BornMirza Mohammad Ibrahim
1905
Kala Gujran, Punjab, British India
DiedAugust 11, 1999(1999-08-11) (aged 93–94)
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Political party NAP(B)
Other political
affiliations
  • NAP (1957–1967)
  • CPP (1947–1954)
  • CPI (pre-1947)
Occupationrailway worker

Mirza Mohammad Ibrahim (1905-11 August 1999) was a Pakistani leftist politician, trade union leader, poet, and writer. He was one of the important labor leaders based in the railway workshops of Mughalpura, Lahore.

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Biography

Mirza Ibrahim was born in 1905 in the village of Kala Gujran in Punjab Province, British India. In 1921, during his adolescence, Ibrahim was imprisoned for participating in the Khilafat Movement. Three years later, he moved to Rawalpindi and worked as a brick laborer, garden gardener, and railway worker. After relocating to Lahore in 1930, he became involved in the trade union movement, joined the Communist Party of India, and was elected president of the Railway Federation. [1] He was a member of the All-India Trade Union Congress. In addition, he established the Railway Workers’ Union. During the Pakistan Movement, he maintained good relations with its leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah. [2] He was among the important labor leaders based in the railway workshops of Mughalpura, Lahore. [3] After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, he launched movements with railway workers for wage increases, which led to his arrest by the government of Pakistan. [3] Subsequently, along with other workers, he formed the Pakistan Trade Union Federation and was elected as its founding president. [4] In the 1951 Punjab Provincial Assembly election, he contested from the Lahore railway constituency, though he lost to the candidate of the Pakistan Muslim League due to the opposition's electoral malpractice. Later, he was imprisoned in connection with the Rawalpindi conspiracy. [1] After the Pakistan Trade Union Federation [5] and the Communist Party of Pakistan was banned in 1954, he joined the National Awami Party. [3] In the 1970 Punjab Provincial Assembly election, he participated but was defeated. In 1994, under his leadership, nine trade union organizations came together to form the Pakistan Trade Union Confederation. [1] He died on 11 August 1999. [2]

Legacy

In 2017, festivals were organized in the railway headquarters of Pakistan to commemorate him. [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sulehria, Farooq (2009). "Ibrahim, Mirza (ca. 1906–2000)". In Immanuel Ness (ed.). The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. pp. 1–2. doi:10.1002/9781405198073.wbierp0732. ISBN   978-1-4051-8464-9.
  2. 1 2 Razi, Manzoor Ahmed (October 2018). "بانی مزدور تحریک مرزا ابراہیم" [Founder of the Labor Movement Mirza Ibrahim]. Monthly Awami Jamhooriat (in Urdu). pp. 25–26.
  3. 1 2 3 Malik, Anushay (2018). "Public Authority and Local Resistance: Abdur Rehman and the industrial workers of Lahore, 1969–1974". Modern Asian Studies. 52 (3): 815–848. doi:10.1017/S0026749X16000469.
  4. ↑ Ahmad, Shahbaz (2016). "Labour Movement in West Pakistan 1947-1958: A Perspective on Punjab" (PDF). Orient Research Journal of Social Sciences. 1 (2). ISSN   2616-7093.
  5. ↑ Yaqubi, Himayatullah (25 September 2016). "The rise and fall of the party". The News.
  6. ↑ "Festival held to observe Mirza Ibrahim's struggle for workers". Daily Times. 28 April 2017.
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