Left leaders on Saturday at a discussion meeting in Dhaka city said that the rights of the farmers would be established only with a left and progressive government in power.
The Communist Party of Bangladesh organised the discussion at its central office to mark the birth centenary of communist and peasant movement leader Ila Mitra.
At the discussion, CPB former president Mujahidul Islam Selim paid homage to Ila Mitra, saying that her indomitable spirit was behind the famous Tebhaga Movement to establish the rights of the farmers.
Ila Mitra with her comrades led the historical Tebhaga Movement in Nachol and adjacent areas of Rajshahi to press home the just rights of the peasants who grew crops as tenant farmers.
Chaired by president of the party Sazzad Jahir Chandan, the programme was addressed, among others, by its former president Mohammad Shah Alam, farmer leaders SMA Sabur and peasant leader Fazlur Rahman.
Party leaders and activists placed wreaths at her portrait at the beginning of the event.
The Tebhaga Movement resulted in increasing the crop share of the tenant farmers.
Born on October 18 in 1925 in British India, Ila Mitra died on October 13 in 2002 in West Bengal state of India.
