AGARTALA, Aug 5 (TIWN): CPI-M Tripura unit has remembered Communist leader Muzaffar Ahmed on his birth anniversary.

Floral tributes were paid to him at CPI-M Headquarter in Melarmath, Agartala. 

Muzaffar Ahmad was a noted Indian Bengali politician, journalist and communist activist, popularly known as "Kakababu".

He was born at Musapur village in Chittagong Dist of in British India (in the present day Bangladesh).

 In 1918, he was appointed joint secretary of "Bangio musalman sahitya Samiti". In 1920, along with Kazi Nazrul Islam he started a new magazine, Navayug. Later, when another magazine, Dhumketu was launched by Nazrul in 1922, he contributed to it using the pseudonym "Dvaipayana".

Ahmad was one of the founders of the Communist Party of India In 1922.

On 20 March 1929, the British Colonial Govt arrested 31 labour activists and sent them to Meerat for trial. Kakababu was the chief accused, along with S.A. Dange, Shaukat Usmani, P C joshi and others, was convicted in this so-called Muraat Conspiracy Case. He was released in 1936. He had served the longest term in jail as the Chief Accused in the Meerut Trial.

He was still Muslim during the time of the partition of Inida in 1947, but he moved to Calcutta (now Kolkata) rather than staying in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).

On 25 March 1948, the Communist Party of India was banned by the Govt of India and Kakababu was imprisoned. He was released from prison in 1951. He was again arrested and imprisoned for two years in 1962, and another time for two years in 1965. He was imprisoned several times in post-Independent India by the Congress government.

He died in Calcutta in 1973, aged 84.