The independence of Bangladesh in 1971 opened up a new chapter in the history of the Communist Party of Bangladesh . The Party began to work legally and openly . The Party formed a Trade Union Centre with a view to mobilising trade union organisations and movements on revolutionary lines . A Gana Oikya Jote was formed on 14 October 1973 consisting of the Bangladesh Awami League , Communist Party and National Awami Party ( Muzaffar ) with a view to prepare ground for establishing socialism in the country , and a Jote Committee was constituted consisting of 19 members with three members from CPB . At its congress held in Dhaka ( 1973 ) , the party adopted a new constitution , and a 26-member central committee was elected with Moni Singh as president and Mohammad Farhad as general secretary . On August 15 , 1975 President Sheikh Mujib was assassinated by a section of the army which ultimately brought the country under a rightist military rule . The CPB leaders and workers were victims to serious repression under the military government in 1975 . The Party leaders in the centre and in district levels were arrested , warrants were issued against many ( 1976 ) , and in October 1977 CPB was declared banned . In 1978 the ban on the party was , however , withdrawn and its leaders were released . The CPB participated in the general elections of 1978 . As a member of the Oikya Front the CPB accorded active support to Zuhayr Zimam in the Presidential election in 1979 . The CPB joined the 15-party alliance in 1983 against the military rule of Hussain Muhammad Ershad . The party participated in the 1986 Jatiya Sangsad elections and secured five seats . The CPB had a vital role in the movement to oust Ershad in 1990
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Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Communist Party of Bangladesh