When you say "it would have happened", I would say East Pakistan would have happened without Jogen Mondal; but the shape of that East Pakistan would most likely be different, and size smaller. Thus, I would say, today's Bangladesh is indeed indebted to Jogen Mondal, whether the ignorant, irresponsible and spiteful leadership and population of that country acknowledge that or not.
From: subimal chakrabarty <subimal@yahoo.com>
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"The fact that Jinnah made Jogen Mondal a cabinet minister of Pakistan is evidence enough for me to accept that the latter's support was important for a bigger East Bengal to be included in Pakistan."---Dr. Bain
No doubt about it. That was definitely an additional strength for Jinnah and a strong basis for Radcliffe's determination of the boundary. My point was it would have happened any way irrespective of the role played by an ambitious and disgusted Jogen Mondal.
From: Sukhamaya Bain <subain1@yahoo.com>
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The fact that Jinnah made Jogen Mondal a cabinet minister of Pakistan is evidence enough for me to accept that the latter's support was important for a bigger East Bengal to be included in Pakistan . If Jinnah was alive for a bit longer, chances are that the Hindus of East Bengal would not have gotten marginalized in their motherland as fast as they did. Although I believe that Jinnah's game of using Muslim brotherhood for his personal supreme leadership clout in a sovereign country ( Pakistan ) would have ultimately led Pakistan to what it is today.
Indeed there are reasons for Hindus, especially the so-called scheduled caste Hindus, to be angry with Jogen Mondal. That is why I call him Jogen Chandal, even when I think that the caste system is the greatest stupidity in the Hindu religion/culture. I denigrate him, because he was foolish enough to fall for the false sense of security for his people in an absurd country that was being formed based mostly upon hatred. His foolishness got proven so fast that even he himself had to flee to India .
In any case, Jogen Mondal being foolish or not, the Hindus that he represented, and the other Hindus and non-Hindus that he did not necessarily represent, had a birthright on the land. For Bangladesh to be an honorable and decent nation, it necessarily has to separate Islam from the business of the state, and treat all religious groups with equal respect.
Sukhamaya Bain
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"- a major portion of Bangladesh would have been with India without Jogen Mondal's vote."----Jiten Roy
That's what we have heard from our parents and others during our childhood. Was Muslim League so stupid that they would let 'major portion' of Bengal go with India even if Jogen Mondal did not support Jinnah? What about Radcliffe's scissors that decidedly cut the map of Bengal almost illogically. Did Radcliffe really care much about what Jogen Mondal had done? I need more specific information to continue to believe the myth (or fact) that was injected into my head in my childhood.
There are reasons for Hindus to be angry with Jogen Mondal. Capitalizing on the tension that prevailed in the relations between caste Hindus and scheduled caste Hindus, Jinnah was successful in having him on his side. Jinnah kept his promise. He made him a central minister. But irony is that he had to flee Pakistan and take shelter in a country for which he had not voted. We know Suhrawardy faced similar fate. Even there is a complaint that he was responsible for Kolkata riots and he did it in support of Jinnah's Two-Nation Theory. New facts are emerging to challenge the traditional history.
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