Historic Nov 7: It has Many Significance
The nation has observed the historic November 7 with many discussion meetings on the significance of the day.The BNP secretary general, Khandaker Delwar Hossain, on Saturday said the situation in the country was more perilous now than in 1975 and asked 'nationalist forces' to unite and get prepared for protest movement against the 'undemocratic' activities of the government. 'Today's context is more perilous than it was in November 1975. A puppet government and a rubber stamp parliament have been installed through got-up polls. People have started feeling the pinch…,' he said at a discussion organised by the BNP marking the National Revolution and Solidarity Day at the Institution of Engineers. The party chief, Khaleda Zia was in the audience. The government has turned the country into a safe haven for hegemonic forces, he said. 'Hegemonic and expansionist forces are conspiring against the country in the way they did in 1975,' he said and urged his party activists to guard against the plots. 'The government is continuing with the move of the military-controlled government to divide BNP into pieces by filing fresh cases and attempting to extract confessions by force from the party leaders in custody. To put the government back on track and to safeguard democracy, all nationalist forces should unite under the leadership of Khaleda Zia,' he said.
Delwar accused the government of being engaged in a smear campaign against BNP in a bid to weaken it. 'Conspiracies are continuing against the party founded by Ziaur Rahman.
Delwar said if the events of November 7 had not taken place, the country's independence and sovereignty could not have been protected. 'After the August 15 killings, Mushtaq, a member of the then cabinet had become the president and many Awami League leaders had queued up to have a seat in his cabinet. On November 3, the then army chief Zia was interned by brigadier Khaled Mosharraf who declared himself as the new army chief. The Indian radio broadcast the news before we came to know about it,' he said. 'In such a situation, many soldiers went to Zia's house after midnight past November 6 and freed him from confinement,' the BNP leader said refuting the claims that Zia had captured power. Party standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain blasted the 'attempt' of the ruling party to 'demean' historic events. 'They are trying to mislead the people over the revolution of the soldiers and people,' he said. The BNP marked the National Revolution and Solidarity Day with a call for restoring the state-level programmes of November 7, including the public holiday.
There were many other programs by various political and civil society groups.Many columnists wrote many articles in this connection.We feel this day is important in several respects.It saved us from falling back on BAKSHAL.It also saved us from Indian domination.It also saved us from a hard socialist dictatorship .Col Taher and his Gana bahini , being hard socialists would have imposed a hard socialist regime and things like Cambodian killings would have happened.Ziaur Rahman courageously handled the situation after he was freed, put aside Taher and others, brought back discipline in the country.This was indeed a historic achievement. There is no point in demeaning Ziaur Rahman and his achievement. This also paved the way for re-assertion of Islamic identity of the nation
