Let Sheikh Mujib rest in peace in the grave
Author: M.T Hussain
Esteem or ignominy:
Sheikh Hasina's Government decision taken on the 30th March that the portrait of Sheikh Mujib must be displayed from now on in all government offices, educational institutions, etc along with the portrait of the head of the government has once again been an attempt not to keep him in esteem but to put the prominent person to fresh ignominy.
Mujib's bigness and smallness:
Sheikh Mujib, Hasina's loving late father, was no doubt a big personality in late twentieth century politics of Pakistan and Bangladesh. His prominence is, however, marked by both laudable credits on the one hand and huge blames on the other. Possibly, politicians can hardly escape two aspects of such credentials. In case of Mujib, it was not just a case of credits and blames as any politician would have, it is further than that, because, he was some what an exceptional person who divided the people more than uniting in post seventy one Bangladesh period, despite the fact and credit in his score was that he united the people of former East Pakistan in pre-1971 period though for a very short period. That may well be taken as a proof by itself that he happened to be a rabble rouser rather than a sensible politician much less a statesman, like, for example, George Washington the founding father of the USA.
Brute majority yet minority seeking allegiance through creating fear psychosis:
First, I dare say that the government took the decision not only by force of the brute majority they enjoy in the parliament but also in evil scheming by spreading a fear psychosis among the people in the country that Hasina, in particular, should have had restrained her ego and love for her slain father imposing on all to love like herself the lost icon against the free will of millions, and in fact the majority people. I say majority in the sense that even though her party got the absolute majority in the parliament seats on the 29th December election result, her party polled only popular votes or people's support to the extent of not more than 47%, if the frauds in polling would not be taken into account. To explain the result in another way, it is right to say that the 53% of the voters or the majority people did not lend support to her and the Awami League. Will these majority people take it as pleasant the portrait of Mujib hung and displayed at spots the government have ordered to do? Not in any measure.
Lofty promises and obvious illusion:
Second, Hasina has got the huge votes in the 29th December polls for she had personally promised the peaks of everything that the millions of average common poor people could think of not for high ability of perception but for low level of below average perception. Things are unfolding sooner than latter. Tk. 10 per Kg. of rice is far away from anything. The slight fall in price of cereals- rice and wheat- has already started to bite the farmers adversely by so low price that they are loosing incentive to produce both rice and wheat. The equilibrium of free market would in no way be anything for rice near to Tk. 10 per Kg., despite fall in those prices in the international market primarily for recession all over the world. The effect of economic recession on Bangladesh would be more disastrous for the millions of unemployed and extremely poor people than its effects on the common people in advanced countries.
Recession and vengeance:
Third, the adverse effects of recession would further add to political issues prominent at this stage like the terrorized administration in politicization and settling scores in open vengeance.
Party affiliated students on the vicious rampage and illegal money making:
Fourth, rent seeking by students and booty division among themselves of the youth wings of the party in power has already taken huge proportion so much so that for bigger share of portions of booty they have gone on killing even their own party comrades. The Dhaka Medical College incident of the 30th March is a worst example wherein the infighting factions engaged in fight killing a brilliant student of Dhaka Medical College, no where we have example of the carnage in any civilized country, not even in less developed countries like India. But for their support in the main political party hierarchy such inhuman atrocities could not have been orchestrated and so the top boss cannot escape liability.
Awami League's old score against Islamic/Muslim polity:
Fifth, Awami's political score against Islam and committed Muslims are as old as their black fascist history for the last six decades. Having had the brute majority strength in the parliament they have opened fronts for attacks not only against the Islamic and Muslim nationalist political parties but also against the Qaomi Madarassa. Soon after she made some replacement with more loyal in the police and the RAB, they discovered very smartly arms factory in an orphanage cum Madarassa in the far-flung area in the island of Bhola in the Bay of Bengal!
Colonial Police's evil mode of operation:
I recall my experience of being arrested by police from a gathering in Dhaka in 1978 wherein in the case against me the police charged me with five cases, one of them was that I had attacked them with deadly arms. I had no arms in my possession, not even a knife. On the contrary, they beat me like anything with sticks and riffle butts that I could hardly stand had it not been that another junior colleague in empathy for me jammed in between the policemen beating my actual physique and me. My sad experience was that they had on the contrary took away my Roamer wrist watch, eye glass and my money bag as I can recall today after 31 years from my possession by overpowering me in the scene when I fell down on the ground and for a little while I was unconscious.
Experience with London police:
In contrast, I also recall my experience with London police in 1987. One day I was waiting for a friend at the entrance of my Burton Street residence in central London with a plastic shopping bag full of books to return to the university library. In about five minutes of my standing there I saw two British gentlemen rushed to me and showed their ID cards; they were police in plain cloths. They asked my permission to check inside my shopping bag that I did. They both in about a second finished looking into the bag and apologized to me for the inconvenience and then went off hurriedly. I recalled here my own contrasting experience of the police system here in the British colonial set up and the in Britain itself. I have thus every doubt about the Bhola Madarassa case. The is further proved by the fact that the government, as the news is there today (2 April) that the government is contemplating to put total control on the 40.000 Qaomi Madarassa of Bangladesh that never ever the governments of the past three eras (The British, Pakistan and Bangladesh) did in any way interfere with. There is also a valid opinion that the 'terrorists' are there more in colleges and universities rather than in the Qaomi Madarassas.
Sermon on 'conspiracies':
Sixth, the sermon lately coming from the horse's mouth is that 'conspiracies' are hatched to destabilize the government. We don't know, her intelligence team would know better and feeding her with. A renowned journalist based in London made a hunch that she has been hatching conspiracies to once gain introduce lone party system as in her father's style of BAKSAL to be reinforced by another RAKKHI BAHINI, at the expense of the formal military can not be altogether ruled out at this point in time in early April 2009. She has the brute majority to do that at ease just as her father did in late January 1975. Unfortunately he did not survive long after that draconian change from the multi-party to the lone party one, off course, there were many other suicidal issues that led to his unfortunate downfall within seven months of resorting to the misadventure. His high popularity in the past came to be of no use, because, the people had already rejected him as anything of worth. His worthlessness possibly was best described after Mujib's fall by the renowned British journalist Anthony Mascarenhas, 'It would have been dangerous to let him continue as he had already turned a huge liability.'
People's memory short taken advantage of:
Seventh, people's memory is very short. The Awami League takes this advantage now on in 2009. They are telling us that Mujib was killed by some 'miscreants' or 'misguided' few in the Bangladesh Army. Sheikh Hasina, as she is notoriously known for making and manufacturing falsehoods after falsehood, has been telling the present generation that Mujib had been an angel of the exceptional pristine quality. She has been utilizing people's short memory on the on hand and propaganda galore by the lackey media on the other, hugely propagated by the bully boys or cadres who had already been told to 'kill ten for one killed' in reprisal.
Extra judicial killings and unnatural deaths during Mujib's rule:
Eighth, extra judicial killings and unnatural deaths of thousands in the streets of Dhaka and in many rural areas during the hay days of the Mujib's lone man fascist administration and of his cadres illegal fortune making in the opportune days of common people's suffering between 1972 to 1975 is a well documented history of Bangladesh. Mujib's clans not only made illegal fortunes through looting national properties but also at the same time transferred those fortunes in dollars and pounds in the western world banks, not to speak of Indian banks. The Red Cross Chairman and a henchman of Mujib Gazi Golam Mustafa had Taka 100 Crore or 1000 million in Indian banks alone. Others had Taka 400 crore or 4000 million in the Swiss banks, not excluding in the share of Mujib himself. One may inquire the matter even now and also see how after her father's death she continued to withdraw money from there. Is there any one in this country who would dare to ask her about the Swiss bank affair? Who paid for her bills for the lavish tours in Europe and America in the recent years?
Who paid for whose bills?
Ninth, who paid for the home Mujib had at Dhanmondi in Pakistan time when his father worked as a peshkar (promoted from the post of record supplier) in a District court? Did Mujib get any fortune from his maternal Uncle's side? Would any one know about Mujib's maternal grand father/maternal uncle? Who paid for Dr. Wazed's luxurious home in Dhanmondi? Was that all from his paltry sum wage as a scientist? What legal and known earning profession Hasina had at any time of her lifetime? People's short memory should at least ponder about these questions I raised here.
Calcutta's 'Charity Boy':
Tenth, I don't intend in any way to ridicule one's poverty, because, wealth and poverty are two sides of the same coin and of the wish of the Great Creator. But we have to honest about facts of life. Mujib had been a charity boy in Kolkatta in early 1940s mainly supported by Huseyn Shahid Sohrawardy. Even at time he had hard times. One day in Kolkata (then Calcutta) he grabbed a senior friends of mine in his pocket and only one Taka therein, he took that away saying 'TOMRA NASTA KHEECHOAMITO KISUI KHAINI". My friend did not take his saying otherwise and rather in empathy for him hailed him to take that one Taka, and so he did take the NASHTA. His admission in the Islamia College (now Maolana Azad College) had been possible because of Sohrawardy and some other Muslim League leaders' sympathetic attention to him as a worker of the League. His appearing at the Final B.A. Examination is another story in fraud and cheat in evil association with some others we may discuss elsewhere.
Imputed value, not real market price:
Eleventh, Taking advantage of people's short memory, Mujib has been given some imputed vale recently and now that he did not possess. One such is that he dreamt for and sacrificed his life for the welfare of the people of Bangladesh. This assertion has no substance whatsoever. First, he did not wish to have independent Bangladesh, but a federating autonomous unit with Federal Pakistan. That is why he rather surrendered to the federal army on the night of 25th March 1971 having had refused to declare UDI for Bangladesh and much less lead the war of independence. There are enough of evidences on this psyche of Mujib. Whoever puts the contrary value is rather putting imaginary imputed value. One instance could suffice the point. Mujib disagreed with Tajuddin on the matter of secession of East Pakistan even in de facto Bangladesh in post 1971 period that he not only removed soon from the Ministry but also caged him in prison.
Mujib was not a secessionist:
Twelfth, that is why Mujib must not be given the stigma of being a secessionist that he time and again ridiculed the issue. It is as such befitting that no decorative value should be imputed to his memory in his absence that I am certain would hurt his soul in the afterworld and dampen his peace in the grave.The matter needs to be seriously pondered by Hasina, whether she has the right sense and understanding being absolved in deep emotion is another matter of serious concern.
London's incident on the 15th August 1975:
I may mention here an incident in London of the 15th August 1975, the day marked Mujib's fall from the State power in Dhaka. The incident was a matter of big ignominy of Mujib so much so that his portrait in London High Commission office at the 28 Queens Gate was not only thrown down with contempt in pavements but also kicked by some his own men repeatedly until that was broken to pieces that the BBC TV displayed in the TV screen. I watched the scene myself at the 1 pm news in London (I had then been staying in London). Should there be another similar ignominy fall on the soul who left us all long over three decades ago? Could any one make sure the same story would not be repeated once more in some days ahead? Should Hasina put Mujib at all to fresh ignominy and indignity or to let him rest in his grave at Tungipara in peace?
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