Early life

Siraj Sikder was born on 27 October 1944 at Bhedarganj

Bhedarganj Upazila

Bhedarganj is an Upazila of Shariatpur District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.-Geography:Bhedarganj is located at . It has 36550 units of house hold and total area 267.28 km².-Demographics:...

 in Shariatpur District

Shariatpur District

-Upazilas:7 upazilas under this district are:#Shariatpur Sadar Upazila#Naria Upazila#Zanjira Upazila#Damudya Upazila#Bhedarganj Upazila#Gosairhat Upazila#Shakhipur Upazila-Geography & Demography:...

. After passing the matriculation examination

Matriculation examination

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 from Barisal Zilla School

Barisal Zilla School

Barisal Zilla School is a boys school located in Barisal, Bangladesh. One of the oldest schools in Bangladesh, it has more than two thousand students. Beside the school playground, Barisal Zilla School owns famous ground called Poreshagor. The school celebrated its 175th anniversary on 9-10...

 in 1959, he was admitted into Barisal Braja Mohan College in 1961 for I.Sc. He obtained Engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 degree from the Dhaka Engineering University in 1967.

During his student life he was a very active member of East Pakistan Student Union. He was elected vice president of the central committee of Student Union (Menon group) in 1967. In the same year he joined the C & B Department of the government as an engineer

Engineer

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, but within three months left the job to join a private company named Engineering Limited in Teknaf

Teknaf Upazila

Teknaf is an Upazila of Cox's Bazar District in the Division of Chittagong, Bangladesh. It forms the southernmost point in mainland Bangladesh . The name of the region comes from the Naf River which forms the Eastern boundary of the upazila.-Geography:Teknaf is located at...

. On 8 January 1968, along with like-minded activists, he formed a clandestine organisation named Purba Bangla Sramik Andolon (East Bengal Workers Movement-EBWM) with an objective to led a struggle against the revisionism of the existing "Communist" organizations and to form a revolutionary Communist Party. This initiative brought forward a Thesis that Eastbengal is the colony of Pakistan and the principal contradiction in the society is between the bureaucratic bourgeoisie and feudals of Pakistan and people of Eastbengal. Only the independence struggle to form a "independent, democratic, peaceful, non-aligned, progressive" People's Republic of Eastbengal, free from the oppression of also US imperialism, Soviet social-imperialism and Indian Expansionism can led the society forward towards socialism and communism. (See the Thesis of EBWM, 1968). In late 1968, Siraj Sikder left the job to establish the Mao Tse Tung Research Center in Dhaka

Dhaka

Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...

 but later on it was closed down by the Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

 government. In February 1970, Siraj Sikder joined the Technical Training College in Dhaka as a Lecturer.

In the meantime of war, at a liberated base area named Pearabagan, in the southern part of the country, on 3 June 1971, Siraj Sikder founded a new party named Purbobanglar Sorbohara Party (Proletarian Party of Eastbengal) by ideology of Marxism and Mao Tsetung Thought (not "Maoism", during the 1960s the follower of Mao-line used to identify their ideology as Marxism-Leninism

Marxism-Leninism

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-Mao Tse-tung Thought

Maoism

Maoism, also known as the Mao Zedong Thought , is claimed by Maoists as an anti-Revisionist form of Marxist communist theory, derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong . Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, it was widely applied as the political and military guiding...

). At the beginning of the war he went to Barisal and he declared that as a free living space. Making that place as his basement he initiated his revolution throughout other places. The war he fought was of different ideology than who fought in the name of muktibahini. He fought to eradicate the economic suppression by state machinery irrelevant of their nationality.

Death

In 1975, he was arrested at Hali Shahr in Chittagong

Chittagong

Chittagong ) is a city in southeastern Bangladesh and the capital of an eponymous district and division. Built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River, the city is home to Bangladesh's busiest seaport and has a population of over 4.5 million, making it the second largest city in the country.A trading...

 by the intelligence force of the government. He was killed in police custody on 2 January 1975 by police on his way from Dhaka Airport to the Raksi Bahini Camp at Savar.