Mujahidul Islam Selim

Mujahidul Islam Khan Selim (Bengali: মুজাহিদুল ইসলাম খান সেলিম; born 16 April 1948) is a Bangladeshi politician. Khan Selim served as the president of Communist Party of Bangladesh.^[1][2][3]

Mujahidul Islam Khan Selim
President of CPB
In office 1990–2022
Preceded by	Moni Singh
Succeeded by	Shah Alam
Personal details
Born	(1948-04-16)April 16, 1948(77 age) Dhaka, Bangladesh
Political party	Communist Party of Bangladesh
Profession	Politician

Career

Selim is also a Muktijoddha and is the leader of 1969 armed uprising of students on Chittagong,^[4] He was elected as vice president of the Dhaka University Central students union (DUCSU) in post-independence Bangladesh.^[5][6][7]

In 1993, Selim was elected general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh at a time when most leaders had left the party following the collapse of the Soviet Union.^[8]

In 2012, Selim was elected president of the Communist Party of Bangladesh.^[9]

Selim received death threats on 5 December 2015 from Mission Jihadists.^[10]