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Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League
Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ আওয়ামী স্বেচ্ছাসেবক লীগ) is an associate body and the volunteer wing of the Bangladesh Awami League. Gazi Mesbaul Hossain Shachchu is the Acting President[1][2] and Afzalur Rahman Babu the general secretary of the organization.[3] HistoryBangladesh Awami Swechasebak League was founded on 27 July 1994.[4][5] It traces its origin to the Swechchhasebak Bahini founded in 1949 at the establishment of the Awami League by Zillur Rahman.[6] In 2008, Pankaj Debnath, General Secretary of Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League was sentenced to jail for corruption by a special anti-corruption court established in the MP hostel of the Jatiya Sangshad complex by the Caretaker Government during the 2006-2008 Bangladeshi political crisis.[7][8] He is the incumbent Member of Parliament from Barisal-4.[9] On 25 November 2013, Rabiul Islam, the General Secretary of Deyara Union unit of Awami Swecchasebak League was killed in clashes with Bangladesh Nationalist Party supporters after they called a strike.[10] Swechasabak League organized an exhibition on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, called "History Speaks Up", at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum on 15 August 2012.[11] President of Sadarghat, Chittagong unit of Swechasebak League, Ibrahim Manik, was shot dead in December 2016 in Chittagong.[12] On 1 August 2018, they bought out a procession of light in memory of former president Mujib in a lead up to marking his assassination in August.[13] On 13 December 2018, Asadul Islam Ershad, General Secretary of Muladholi Union unit of the Awami Swechasebak League, was killed in general election-related violence.[14] References
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