WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/48535
Dr Subimal Chakrabarty's informative response deserves thanks.
Bhashani was a great leader but his progressive side was dual, not firm, typically like colonial bourgeoisie. Let me share with SC and others an episode. During the Liberation Struggle of 1971, NAP (Bhshani)'s general secretary Mashiur Rahman came to Calcuuta and briefed CPI(M) State Committee about the Liberation Struggle. I am not going to mention what he said. Among the listeners were Jyoti Basu, Promode Dasgupta, Harekrishna Konar, Saroj Mukherjee, Syed Mansur Habibullah, Abdullah Rasul, Benoy Chowdhury, Biman Bose etc.
Abanti Sanyal, noted intellectual and literatteur wrote a long letter disclosing the antecedents of Mashiur Rahman a k a Jadu Mian. In mid-1940s , during the high-voltage days of Tebhaga Struggle, share-croppers (adhiars) assembled at a rally at Rangpur, led by Saroj Mukherjee and Syed Mansur Habibullah. Jadu Mian, belonging to the gentry, opened fire at the subalterns and several of them were injured (one possibly succumbed to injury). I got the matter verified from the late Abani Lahiri, secretary, Bangiya Pradeshik Krishak Sabha, of those days.
How could an arch reactionary get a place in the top brass of NAP (Bhashani)?
I have nothing to opine of Awami League, as whether AL was a puppet of Indian government doesn't seem relevant here. But barring the Government of India and PM Indira Gandhi, victory of Liberation Struggle would not have been relatively easy.
SR
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