Krishak Praja Party originally known as "Proja-Shamiti" (Bengali: প্রজা সমিতি Proja Shomiti "People's Committee"), was a political party

Political party

A political party is a political organization that typically seeks to influence government policy, usually by nominating their own candidates and trying to seat them in political office. Parties participate in electoral campaigns, educational outreach or protest actions...

 in British India. It struggled for the abolition of zamindari (Landlordism).

In the late 1930s, A. K. Fazlul Huq

A. K. Fazlul Huq

Not to be confused with the cricket ground in Dhaka Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq was a well-known Bengali statesman in the first half of the 20th century...

 founded and renamed the defunct 'Proja-Shamiti' as Krishak Praja Party, changing its original harsh agrarian policy, and, after entering into an alliance with the Muslim League started defending the zamindars. It was also during this time when A. K. Fazlul Huq

A. K. Fazlul Huq

Not to be confused with the cricket ground in Dhaka Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium Sher-e-Bangla Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq was a well-known Bengali statesman in the first half of the 20th century...

served as the Chief (or Prime) Minister of undivided Bengal (1937-1943).