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MUZAFFAR AHMAD
1889-1973

One of the founders of the Communist movement in India, Muzaffar Ahmad was closely connected with the working class movement. Born in a middle class Muslim family in Sandip(now in Bangladesh), he started his career as a petty government employee. He later on decided to join politics. Sometimes he closely involved himself in literary works and journalism. He was attracted to working class movement by the direct influence of the International Communist Movement. Along with his friend and comrade Abdul Halim, he began working to form communist organisation inside the national movement. He was a member of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee during 1926-27 and again in 1937. He was also a member of the All India Congress Committee during 1927-29 and in 1937.

Muzaffar Ahmad actively joined trade union movement in 1923. He was instrumental along with other friends in founding various trade unions in and around Calcutta. He was imprisoned several times for his political and trade union activities. He was sentenced to four year's rigorous imprisonment in Cawnpur Conspiracy Case in 1924. But he was released shortly due to severe illness. He was one of the founders of the Worker's and Peasant's Party. He was elected one of the members of the Presidium of the Communist Party of India when it was reorganised in Bombay in 1927. He took active part in Railway Worker's Movement. He was arrested in connection with the strikes of 15,000 workers of Calcutta Corporation in 1928. He was also actively associated with the historic strike of the jute mill workers of Bauria involving 15,000 workers. In the Jahria session of the All India Trade Union Congress in 1928, he was elected one of the Vice-Presidents of the AITUC.