In Bengal the Scheduled Castes Federation chapter led by Jogendra Nath Mandal championed maintaining the province united, a position the party shared with the Muslim League.
[5] The party argued for separate electorate for Scheduled Castes, and had tense relations with the Pakistan National Congress on this issue.
[6] An East Bengal Minorities Conference held at Comilla in March 1952, which called for joint electorate and denounced Barori.
[7] On December 19, 1953, the anti-Barori camp in the East Bengal Scheduled Castes Federation organized a conference in Dacca and declared Barori and his faction expelled for having violated the party line on joint electorates.
[10] Invited speakers at the event included Maulana Bhasani, A. K. Fazlul Huq, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Basanta Kumar Das and Mahmud Ali.
[5][11] Three different groups participated in the 1954 East Bengal Legislative Assembly election, claiming to be the genuine Scheduled Castes Federation - led by D.N.
[5][12][14][15] In 1955 the Scheduled Castes Federation obtained three seats in the second Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (with Rasaraj Mandal being one of the three members).
[6][18] Akshay Kumar Das, President of the Working Committee of the East Bengal Scheduled Castes Federation, was sworn in as Minister of State for Economic Affairs in the Pakistan government on September 26, 1955.
[19] A year later Rasaraj Mandal, then the general secretary of the party, was sworn in as a Minister of State for Economic Affairs in the Pakistan government.
[5][10][20] With Mandal taking a ministerial role at the Centre, whilst his inner-party rival Gour Chandra Bala was elected as leader of the Scheduled Castes Federation in the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly.
[5][10] When the Suhrawardy government at the Centre fell in March 1958, Mandal was left without a ministerial berth and Bala became a minister in East Pakistan.
[6] With the deepening of the Mandal-Bala split during the budget session in the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly in 1958, the party organization disintegrated.