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Sheikh Mujib addresses the foundation meeting of BAKSAL.
The Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League was the political amalgmation of the Awami League with the Krishak Sramik Party that supported President Mujibur Rahman in governing Bangladesh. All other political parties were outlawed at the time, and the period from 1973 to 1975 in which BAKSAL existed, was seen as a one-party dictatorship. The BAKSAL dissolved after Rahman's assassination on August 15, 1975, and the KSP and League became independent political parties. The party advocated state socialism. The Bangladesh Awami League (বাংলাদেশ আওয়ামী লীগ Bāŋlādeś Āowāmī Līg) or the Bangadesh Peoples League is the main opposition party in Bangladesh. ... Sheikh Mujibur Rahman ( 1920 - August 15, 1975), born in Gopalganj, Bangladesh, was a Bengali nationalist leader in East Pakistan and first Prime Minister and President of independent Bangladesh. ... Socialism refers to a broad array of doctrines or political movements that envisage a socio-economic system in which property and the distribution of wealth are subject to social control. ...