Despite being a great crowd puller - rather relatively a less great mass leader - Maulana Bhashani is still over-rated by a section of the Left. Some of them in India rate him as a bigger leader than Sher-e-Bangal A K Fazlul Haq whom Sir Asutosh Mookerjee treated as his eldest son. Haq Saheb's unflinching loyalty to peasantry was amazingly rare.
When the NAP was split into pro-Soviet (led by Khan Abdul Wali Khan) and pro-China (led by Bhashani) President Ayyub Khan achieved a diplomatic success by getting closer to China and even CP of China. He cashed in on the Sino-Indian border conflict. The EPCP too was split although the bigger and more committed section was the pro-Moscow wing, leaders of whom went underground as Pak authorities arrested ( and tortured) the pro-Moscow communists. Moni Singh was underground for two decades.
But the pro-Chinese were freely roaming. There was a benign opposition to the military regime from the pro-Mao sections. Small wonder, Bhashani wasn't interested in disturbing Ayyub Khan.
I have never been to East Pakistan, excepting in the very early years (to Rajshahi, Natore, Rangpur etc) but I gathered all those facts from comrades who used to cross over secretly in the 1960s and 1970s.
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