United People's Democratic Front

The United People's Democratic Front was founded on 26 December 1998 at a conference in Dhaka. At the end of the conference, a five-member convening committee was formed with Prasit Bikash Khisha as its convener.^{[citation needed]}

In November 2006, Prasit Bikash Khisha was elected to presidency by the party's central committee during a congress in Dhaka. In the same meeting, Rabi Shankar Chakma became the new general secretary.^{[citation needed]}

The UPDF took part in the eighth national parliamentary elections in 2001 and though failed to win in any of the two seats in CHT it contested, the party received a considerable number of votes cast, to the surprise of many analysts.^{[citation needed]}

In July 2021, the party's Joan Chakma led a contingent of Chakmas to Suandrapara, a village of the Bawm community, where they issued threats and conducted two violent raids leading damaging a church.^[1] Towards the end of the same month, four of the party's members were arrested for extortion.^[2]

In 16 April 2025, UPDF was accused of abducting 5 tribal university students who were members of PCP.^[3]